Rangers Second Period Blows the Canucks Away

By Daniel Feuerstein | Vancouver, BC | November 13th, 2026

The New York Rangers finish their Western Canada/Pacific Northwest road trip with a game against a rebuilding Vancouver Canucks team. Looking to end the night with six points out of eight and heading back home to Madison Square Garden. It was a dominating middle period as a hometown kid was able to take advantage of his situation and give the Rangers a fabulous game. Once the final buzzer sounded, the Rangers took home the win and were victorious as they ended the night with the final score of 5-1.

Gabe Perreault Roof Job

The Rangers were down by a goal in the first period when Elias Pettersson redirected the puck for the opening goal. But the Rangers were determined to get the tying goal, and it came closer to the end of the opening period. J.T. Miller was in the near corner, trying to get the puck away from the defenseman. He quickly sent it behind the net towards Alexis Lafreniere, then a quick pass out to the near faceoff circle for Gabe Perreault, who quickly roofed it underneath the crossbar and in at 18:47 of the first period

A Dominating second period

The Rangers took care of business in the middle period when they scored four consecutive goals and found ways to beat the goaltender all game long.

Bjorkstrand with a quick shot

The Rangers were on the power play, and they were looking to take advantage of the Canucks penalty killers. As the puck was being passed around, Adam Fox held it in near the blue line and went towards the far side to J.T. Miller inside the faceoff circle. When he saw Oliver Bjorkstrand wide open inside the slot, he made a quick pass towards him, and Bjorkstrand wound his stick up and blasted it past the goalie at 8:21 of the second period.

Glenn Gadwin gets a pair

For Rookie Glenn Gadwin, his dream of playing in the National Hockey League came true when he was called up in the last game against the Calgary Flames. The Vancouver native played in his hometown arena against the Canucks and was able to score a pair for the first time in his NHL career. After Will Cuylle was skating after the puck, he forced the defender and the goaltender to create a play. That mistake cost the home side as Leevi Merilainen tried to move the puck out, but hit his defenseman in the skate, and it redirected towards Gadwin. A quick snapshot and scored his first NHL goal at 13:00 of the second period.

On his second goal, right place at the right time. Jaroslav Chmelar was skating down towards the end boards and found his way to dig the puck away from the defender and started to make a play; he threw it back to the near point at Vladislav Gavrikov. When he got the puck, Gavrikov unleashed a big shot that went for the net, but the puck deflected off the left skate of Gadwin and redirected into the net for his second goal of the game and his first two-goal game at 16:10 of the second period.

Quick passing and in

While Gadwin scored two goals, in between them was a fabulous setup for Alexis Lafreniere to tap it in. The Rangers stopped the rush by the Canucks and started to go into their own attacking rush up the ice. Perreault entered the zone with the puck on a three-on-two. Found Mika Zibanejad down low on the far side, then made a quick pass to Lafreniere, who skated quickly in front of the net, with some fancy stick work, and found a way to slip the puck under the goalie’s pads and in at 15:14 of the second period.

Garand had a solid night

Dylan Garand returned home to his native province of British Columbia and had a great game. Even though the Victoria native only gave up one goal, he was solid the rest of the night. Made 27 saves out of 28 shots and was never bothered at all, given the amount of chances the Canucks had. He made strong pad saves, Blocker saves, and even took a puck off the cage of his goalie mask and covered it up. He has been solid since Igor Shesterkin went down.

GLENN GADWIN: scored his first career NHL goal and then scored his second less than four minutes later. He notched his first career multi-goal game and became the first Rangers skater to have notched both his first career NHL goal and multi-goal game on the same night since J.T. Miller on Feb. 7, 2013 (2-0–2). He is also the first Rangers skater to have recorded his first career NHL goal in the same period he notched his first career multi-goal game since Ryan Callahan on Mar. 17, 2007.

ADAM FOX: tallied an assist on a go-ahead goal for the 124th time in his career, tying James Patrick for the second-most instances by Rangers defensemen in franchise history. He is tied for fifth in the league with 21 assists this season and, among all NHL defensemen, is tied for third with 23 points.

ALEXIS LAFRENIERE: Has recorded a multi-point game in back-to-back games (1G-3A) and in three of his last four games (1G-5A). He leads the Rangers with 10 goals this season and ranks second with 21 points.

DYLAN GARAND: Made 27 saves against the Canucks and earned his seventh win of the season, his third win in his last four games. He allowed one or fewer goals for the sixth time this season, the second-most games among all NHL goaltenders. His 2.37 goals-against average ranks sixth, and his .910 save percentage ranks eighth among all NHL goaltenders with at least 10 games played.

GABE PERREAULT: Scored his seventh goal of the season and his third over his last five games. His seven goals are tied for second on the Rangers.

MIKA ZIBANEJAD: Extended his point streak to five straight games (2G-5A).