{"id":440361,"date":"2024-04-28T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=440361"},"modified":"2024-04-28T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T20:30:42","slug":"arturs-silovs-starting-game-four-for-vancouver-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/04\/28\/arturs-silovs-starting-game-four-for-vancouver-canucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Art\u016brs \u0160ilovs Starting Game Four for Vancouver Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Frank Seravalli, Vancouver Canucks will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/silovar01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arturs Siovs<\/a> starting Game Four against the Nashville Predators today. News of Artus Silovs starting broke Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources say Arturs Silovs starts Game 4 for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Canucks<\/a>. Casey DeSmith is injured.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t make it up for Vancouver. Three different starting goalies in four games versus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/preds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#preds<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyFaceoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DailyFaceoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/1784661516551131640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Arturs Silovs Starting Game 4<\/h2>\n<p>After the debacle of seeing an 18-year-old being forced into NHL action a few years back, the Canucks made changes. Primarily, always having experience available between the pipes. Not just two players in the NHL, either, but also someone on the farm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/halakja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaroslav Hal\u00e1k<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/martisp01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Martin<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/desmica01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey DeSmith<\/a> were fine in their backup roles. But Martin backed up Hal\u00e1k, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/deliaco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collin Delia<\/a> backed up Martin, and today, well, Art\u016brs \u0160ilovs is starting for DeSmith.<\/p>\n<p>\u0160ilovs has nine NHL games under his belt, all starts. This season, he has three wins and one overtime loss with a .881 save percentage and 2.47 goals against average.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/04\/27\/the-nashville-predators-and-vancouver-canucks-mid-series-review\/\" target=\"_self\">focused on<\/a> shutting down the Predators&#8217; best chances last game with DeSmith in net, so expect that again today.<\/p>\n<h3>Third Time Lucky<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/demkoth01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thatcher Demko<\/a>&#8216;s return from a month-long injury was a buoyant time for Canucks fans. Coming back with two games to go in the regular season was playing it close, but he was their long-term veteran. With the playoffs set, the team took every precaution he didn&#8217;t return early.<\/p>\n<p>That lasted <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/04\/23\/thatcher-demko-injured\/\" target=\"_self\">one game<\/a>. One excellent game, certainly, but just one game.<\/p>\n<p>According to the little information that Vancouver &#8211; or any team at this time of year &#8211; gives, Demko&#8217;s injury isn&#8217;t the same as what took him out of commission during the season. Unfortunately, that doesn&#8217;t provide a return date and we&#8217;re left with speculation.<\/p>\n<p>In replacement, DeSmith has provided Vancouver with what he has all year long: decent, solid play. When he&#8217;s been in the net, he&#8217;s been good enough to not lose. That&#8217;s what you hope for in a backup.<\/p>\n<p>DeSmith showed some nerves in his first playoff game in Vancouver, and understandably so. Replacing a Vezina-caliber goaltender for their first home playoff series in over a decade can&#8217;t be easy. But he settled down and was good enough to get his first NHL playoff win days later in Nashville.<\/p>\n<h3>What Does Artus Silovs Starting Mean?<\/h3>\n<p>The team obviously won&#8217;t say what the injury is or how he was injured. He took a solid hit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccarmi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael McCarron<\/a> behind the net but also withstood plenty of furious play late as Nashville tried to tie. An injury could have happened any time, with DeSmith noticing it after the adrenaline wore off.<\/p>\n<p>The closest we have on a timeline is that Demko is &#8220;week-to-week&#8221; which tells us nothing. We haven&#8217;t heard of another player being called up from Abbotsford as of yet. The Abbotsford Canucks are prepared for the deciding game in their playoffs tonight against Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Bob Frid-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Frank Seravalli, Vancouver Canucks will have Arturs Siovs starting Game Four against the Nashville Predators today. News of Artus Silovs starting broke Sunday afternoon. Sources say Arturs Silovs starts Game 4 for #Canucks. Casey DeSmith is injured. Can\u2019t make it up for Vancouver. Three different starting goalies in four games versus #preds.@DailyFaceoff &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":440364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[7903,7417,1975,852,5820],"class_list":["post-440361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canucks","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2024-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-arturs-silovs","tag-casey-desmith","tag-thatcher-demko","tag-vancouver-canucks-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}