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Gawdin’s long wait ends with two goals as Rangers beat Canucks 5-1

The Richmond native scored his first two NHL goals 3:10 apart as New York broke its season-long pattern of losing after conceding first. Vancouver’s skid reached seven games.

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Three minutes, 10 seconds. Glenn Gawdin had gone more than a decade from his NHL draft without scoring a goal in the league. On Friday, November 13, he scored his first two that far apart, helping the New York Rangers beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 at Rogers Arena, close to where he grew up.⁠1⁠3⁠12

The breakthrough was the centerpiece of a four-goal second period that settled the game and broke an unwelcome New York pattern. For the first time this season, the Rangers won after surrendering the opening goal. Vancouver, meanwhile, lost its seventh straight game—a night with a personal milestone for each side, but very different endings.⁠1

Gawdin, 29, is from Richmond, British Columbia, a Vancouver suburb. Recalled from Hartford of the American Hockey League earlier in the week, he was playing just his second NHL game of the season and the 15th of his career. This was not a young prospect’s immediate arrival. It was a player making a scarce opportunity count, against the team representing his home area.⁠1

St. Louis selected Gawdin in the fourth round of the 2015 draft. He also captained the Swift Current Broncos before reaching the professional ranks. Those stops give Friday’s goals their scale: a career that had long since begun, but an NHL scoring record that finally did.⁠3⁠4

2Gawdin’s first NHL goals 12
27Saves by Dylan Garand 1
7Consecutive Canucks losses 12

A milestone before the game turned

Vancouver had the first celebration. Elias Pettersson tipped in the opening goal with 7:47 remaining in the first period, and Brock Boeser’s assist brought him to 500 career NHL points. Sportsnet identified Boeser as the eighth player to reach that mark with the Canucks. It was a substantial individual achievement, and, briefly, part of a winning position.⁠1⁠19

Gabe Perreault removed that advantage with 1:13 left in the period. The teams reached the intermission tied 1-1, giving New York a fresh start rather than another full period spent chasing. Before Friday, the Rangers were 0-7-1 when conceding first: seven regulation losses and one overtime loss. That was their record in that particular situation, not their overall season record.⁠1

Oliver Bjorkstrand put New York ahead on a power play at 8:21 of the second period. Gawdin’s first NHL goal followed at 13:00, an unassisted snap shot that made it 3-1. Alexis Lafrenière scored at 15:14, and Gawdin struck again at 16:10 to complete the Rangers’ scoring. The tied game had become a four-goal lead before the second intermission.⁠1⁠12

The important distinction in that burst: Gawdin’s two goals bracketed New York’s final three, with Lafrenière scoring between them. All four second-period goals came within 7:49. The Rangers did not merely edge ahead and protect a narrow margin; they put the game decisively out of Vancouver’s reach in one period.⁠12

Dylan Garand finished with 27 saves and a .964 save percentage. Vancouver never added to Pettersson’s opener, and a scoreless third period preserved the 5-1 result. Gawdin supplied the career moment, but Garand ensured that the Canucks’ early goal remained their only one.⁠1⁠9⁠13

Two teams moving different ways

New York improved to 12-8-1, finishing its four-game trip with three victories and extending its successful stretch to five wins in six games. The comeback mattered beyond the novelty of ending that 0-7-1 situational record: the Rangers absorbed an early setback without allowing it to determine the result.⁠1

One victory does not establish that falling behind is no longer a problem. What Friday supplied was a counterexample to a season-long pattern—and useful scoring from a recently recalled forward. Gawdin’s night was both a personal breakthrough and a concrete contribution to a team already gathering wins.

Vancouver fell to an NHL-worst 3-17-1. Nor was this an isolated mismatch against New York: the Canucks had lost 6-2 on the road on October 11. Friday was the teams’ second and final regular-season meeting, leaving Vancouver with two decisive defeats and no further chance to answer the Rangers this season.⁠1⁠15

Boeser’s 500th point remains worth recognizing. But the opening goal and its milestone could not change the larger story of another loss. Vancouver’s next opportunity to end the seven-game slide comes Sunday night, November 15, at Vegas. New York returns home to host Montreal on Monday night, November 16, with a winning trip behind it—and Gawdin finally on the NHL scoresheet as a goal scorer, twice.⁠1

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  1. Glenn Gawdin scored his first two NHL goals just three minutes and ten seconds apart.
  2. The Rangers beat the Canucks five to one, extending Vancouver's losing streak to seven games. New York finally has a victory this season after giving up the opening goal.
  3. The next test is whether the Rangers can sustain their winning run and the Canucks can stop their slide.
  4. Gawdin scored at Rogers Arena on Friday, November 13, close to where he grew up. He's from Richmond, British Columbia, a Vancouver suburb. His first NHL goals came against the team representing his home area.
  5. The Rangers had recalled him from Hartford of the American Hockey League earlier in the week. That gave him another chance at the highest level, and he made it count in only his second NHL appearance of the season.
  6. Gawdin was playing his fifteenth career NHL game. At twenty-nine, he scored his first two goals in the same period, helping New York turn a one-all tie into a five-to-one lead before the second intermission.
  7. His route here stretches back more than a decade. St. Louis selected him in the fourth round of the 2015 draft. He also captained the Swift Current Broncos before reaching the professional ranks.
  8. Brock Boeser reached five hundred career NHL points with an assist on Elias Pettersson's opening goal. He became the eighth player to reach that mark with Vancouver. Pettersson's tip gave the Canucks the lead with seven forty-seven left in the first.
  9. Gabe Perreault erased that lead with one thirteen remaining in the period. The teams reached the first intermission tied one-all. Vancouver had its individual milestone, but New York had already taken away the advantage before the second-period scoring burst.
  10. Subscribe to this channel to follow Gawdin's next opportunity and Vancouver's attempt to end its losing streak.
  11. Oliver Bjorkstrand broke the tie on a power play at eight twenty-one of the second. Gawdin scored at thirteen minutes. Alexis Lafrenière followed at fifteen fourteen, and Gawdin struck again at sixteen ten to make it five to one.
  12. Gawdin's first goal was an unassisted snap shot with seven minutes left in the period. His second came with three fifty remaining. Lafrenière scored between them, so New York added three goals during the three-minute-ten-second stretch separating Gawdin's finishes.
  13. Dylan Garand made twenty-seven saves for the Rangers and finished with a point-nine-six-four save percentage. Vancouver couldn't add to Pettersson's opening goal. A scoreless third period preserved New York's four-goal margin and completed the five-to-one victory.
  14. New York had lost every previous game this season in which it allowed the first goal. In those games, the Rangers had seven regulation losses and one overtime loss. Friday's comeback broke that pattern after they drew level before the first intermission.
  15. New York improved to twelve-eight-and-one, with five wins in its last six games. The Rangers finished their four-game trip with three victories. Vancouver fell to three-seventeen-and-one, the NHL's worst record, after its seventh consecutive defeat.
  16. The Rangers also completed a sweep of the teams' regular-season meetings. Vancouver lost six to two on the road on October 11. This was their second and final meeting, leaving the Canucks with two decisive defeats against New York.
  17. Vancouver's next chance to stop the seven-game losing streak comes Sunday night, November 15, at Vegas. New York returns home to host Montreal on Monday night, November 16, after winning three of four on the road.

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