Brock Boeser shootout goal pushes Canucks past Blackhawks
Brock Boeser scored the shootout winning goal to give the visiting Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 comeback victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday.
Jake DeBrusk and Max Sasson scored in regulation time for Vancouver, which has won the first two outings of a five-game road trip and erased 2-0 deficits in both of them.
Goaltender Kevin Lankinen made 31 saves through overtime in a strong outing. He also stopped all four Chicago skaters in the shootout.
Ryan Donato and Tyler Bertuzzi scored early for the Blackhawks, who saw their modest two-game winning streak snapped.
Goalie Spencer Knight stopped 30 shots before the shootout.
Boeser was the only player to score in the four-round shootout, coming through with the game-winner by whipping a shot just inside the glove-side post from the slot to give his club the victory.
The Canucks have won 11 consecutive games against Chicago.
Despite the defeat, Chicago has earned points in three consecutive outings.
The Blackhawks earned their two-goal lead with a strong start from the drop of the puck. They were rewarded at 12:41 of the opening period when Donato was set up by Andre Burakovsky for a tap-in tally while on the power play.
Bertuzzi doubled the lead by driving to the net and pouncing on a rebound with 46 seconds remaining in the frame.
The Canucks clawed back with a two-goal second period, despite managing only four shots on goal during it. DeBrusk, on his 29th birthday, put them on the board at 6:49 of the period by whacking home a loose puck from the edge of the crease for the power-play goal.
Sasson tied the clash with his second goal in as many nights, redirecting the puck into an open net thanks to a slick pass from Filip Hronek at the 13:42 mark.
Rachael Kirkconnell Says She’s ‘Chronically Single’ After Matt James Split: ‘Someone Date Me!’
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Rachael Kirkconnell offered an update on her dating life during an appearance on the Oct. 16 episode of the
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She explained that she hasn't been dating since her split from Matt James earlier this year and revealed she needs to feel an emotional connection to someone more than physical attraction
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Kirkconnell and James met on his season of The Bachelor in 2021, where she won his final rose
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Rachael Kirkconnell is still navigating the single life after her split from
The reality star, 29, has been single for almost a year, but she admitted that it hasn’t been easy to jump back into the dating pool. During an appearance on influencer Hallie Batchelder’s
“Hi, someone date me!” she joked, looking straight at the camera. “No, I’ve been so chronically single. I haven’t been on a single date. I’m not on the apps. I’m not judging anyone who is on the apps, but I just don’t think that would work well for me. But honestly, if it gets to a point, I might have to jump on them.”
“We were talking about dry spells last night,” Kirkconnell said, noting both she and Batchelder have gone through long dry spells over the past year.
“Dry spells are important though, for self-discovery,” Batchelder, 26, chimed in, but Kirkconnell didn’t know if she agreed.
“I’m like, okay, I’m discovered,” she quipped. “I’m just lonely. I just, I don’t know, [want to] at least flirt with someone and get excited about someone and have a crush. I think I like gay guys. That’s the problem. I think I have a problem. I think I like people who don't like me back, or can't like me back. Something’s wrong up here.”
The Bachelor winner went on to suggest she might be “demi-sexual,” a term that refers to someone whose sexual attraction to a person depends on their emotional bond. However, she said she didn't think she is attracted to women, so she wasn't sure if the term applied to her.
“I just feel like I do have to have an emotional connection with someone,” Kirkconnell explained. “I can’t just go home with anyone. I have to feel safe and comfortable with them and be emotionally invested at least in a way that I could see us dating or I at least have a crush on them because of — I don't know, it's not like a physical attraction I guess — personality?”
While Kirkconnell is able to find people physically attractive to her, that doesn’t lead to her wanting any deeper interaction until she knows more about them.
“I think they're really hot, but I don't care after that because they could still be a terrible person or have the worst personality ever, and that would make me not want to sleep with them because that totally turns me off,” she shared. “I guess their attraction only gets them so far for me.”
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Earlier this year, Kirkconnell and James, 33, who met on his season of The Bachelor in 2021, called it quits and sent shockwaves through their fandom.
James announced the news on
Weeks after the split, Kirkconnell told PEOPLE she was "surprised" by the breakup.
“The whole thing's just been really weird because one, I didn't expect anything at all," she said. "Then, two, just the way he went about it and the way it was so public was really hard to deal with and go through the motions. It was one of those things where I'm not registering.”
She added that she had been leaning on her friends and family to cope.
"They know how to be there for me, and it's been a lot easier knowing that I have people in my corner and that I'm not alone, even though it can feel like it sometimes," Kirkconnell said.
