The Vancouver Canucks were one loss away from mathematical elimination from the playoffs on Tuesday night.
They were one minute away from that fate in a three-goal deficit loss to the Dallas Stars.
In fact, the Canucks were down 3-0 and 5-2 in the game, yet they won in overtime off of Kiefer Sherwood's stick.
The comeback began with Aatu Raty firing home a feed from Marcus Pettersson at 19:01 with the extra attacker. Now at 5-3, Vancouver won the draw back and pulled goaltender Thatcher Demko immediately.
Exactly half of a minute later Pius Suter buried another lateral pass home from the slot.
Another Canucks face-off win led to getting the puck deep into Dallas' zone and a puck that banked off the backboard was fed by Filip Hronek to Suter again, who finished the pass in the same exact spot over goalie Casey DeSmith.
At 3:44 of overtime, Sherwood called the game by one-timing a puck home wide-open in the slot.
The supercut of all the goals the Canucks scored at the end of the game, winning 6-5 after being down 5-2 with around a minute left. Insane. pic.twitter.com/rvwzdBgXj2
— Wyatt Arndt (@TheStanchion) April 9, 2025
“I’ve won and lost a lot of games in this league,” Stars coach Pete DeBoer said to the Dallas Morning News. “I don’t think I’ve ever lost one in that fashion before.”
With the comeback, the Canucks become the first team in NHL history to overcome a three-goal deficit in the final minute of regulation.
Although hanging on by a thread, the Canucks stay alive in the postseason race while the Stars are left concerned about getting their game in order for the playoffs.
“Thankfully, it’s not a playoff game. Hopefully, we learned from it,” DeBoer said. “It’ll be unfortunate if it costs us a conference title, losing in overtime in Minnesota on a penalty, losing tonight the way we did, but sometimes you have to learn hard lessons, and that’s on us to respond the right way.”
