Jason Williams scored a power-play goal with 5:03 left in a wild third period, leading the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. Pavel Datsyuk scored his first two goals of the season for Detroit (4-4-2) in a third period that featured six goals and three comebacks. Datsyuk's second score put the Red Wings ahead for the first time, but Henrik Sedin scored his second of the game on a 5-on-3 power play to tie it with 7:57 left. Tomas Holmstrom had a... Read Full Story
Kyle Wellwood and Ryan Kesler scored in the shootout, and the Vancouver Canucks overcame a tying goal late in regulation to beat the Dallas Stars 4-3 on Sunday night. Wellwood beat Marty Turco with a deke to open the shootout, Brad Richards was forced wide by a sprawling Roberto Luongo, and Kesler snapped a low shot past Turco's blocker. Luongo, who made 33 saves, stopped Mike Ribeiro to preserve the victory. Low-scoring defenseman Willie Mitchell put the Canucks ahead 6:53 into the third... Read Full Story
Henrik Sedin scored twice in a 3:37 span of the second period and added an assist to lead the Vancouver Canucks to their first victory of the season, a 7-1 romp over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night. Ryan Kesler, Mason Raymond and Steve Bernier scored their first goals of the season late in the first period, and Mikael Samuelsson and Alex Burrows scored 19 seconds apart in the third to help Vancouver avoid the first 0-4 start in franchise history. Roberto Luongo, who was pulled in... Read Full Story
The Vancouver Canucks will be without top forward Daniel Sedin for four to six weeks because of a broken foot. Sedin, who averaged more than 30 goals for the Canucks over the last three seasons, was hit in the foot by a shot from teammate Alex Edler in a 7-1 win over Montreal on Wednesday. He finished the game and recorded three assists, but X-rays on Friday revealed a fracture. It's the first serious injury in his nine-year career. "It's unfortunate, but I've been lucky so far, I played a... Read Full Story
Sundin could retire, reports his agent JP Barry to TSN . Barry says Sundin is still strongly considering hanging up the skates for good. "The longer it takes, who knows? He is deciding whether its time to retire or not," Barry told TSN. Sundin has told the press in May that he was considering retiring to married life, and this seems to more and more be the case. Imagine being that rich and then being engaged for the first time(?) and you're 37 fricking years old! That will suck the life out... Read Full Story
Daniel and Henrik Sedin have agreed to five-year contract extensions with the Vancouver Canucks less than an hour before the start of free agency. The Canucks gave the twins matching $30.5 million deals, keeping them with the team that drafted them second and third overall in 1999. The Sedins have led the Canucks in scoring for the last three seasons, averaging close to a point a game over that time, including 82 points each last season. The deal comes after a full year of negotiations, but... Read Full Story
Swedish twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin agreed to five-year National Hockey League contract extensions with the Vancouver Canucks on Monday just minutes before the start of free agency. A full year of talks led to the deals, each worth 30.5 million dollars, that will keep the duo with the same team they joined the league with in 1999 as the second and third selections in the NHL Draft. The Sedins had pitched 12-year deals worth 5.25 million dollars a season while the Canucks countered with... Read Full Story
Daniel Sedin had a goal and an assist, and Roberto Luongo made 25 saves to help the Vancouver Canucks beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 on Wednesday night in their playoff opener. Sami Salo added a power-play goal for the Canucks, 14-1-1 at home since the start of February. Game 2 of the Western Conference series is Friday night at GM Place. Brad Boyes scored on a power play with 1:44 left in the second period to pull the Blues within a goal, but that was a lone bright spot for St. Louis special... Read Full Story
Henrik Sedin scored 40 seconds into overtime and Roberto Luongo stopped 22 shots for his second straight shutout, helping the Vancouver Canucks clinch the Northwest Division title with a 1-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday. By edging Calgary for first place, Vancouver's second division crown in three seasons, the Canucks also locked up the third seed in the Western Conference playoffs in their final game of the regular season. Vancouver (45-27-10) will enter the postseason on a... Read Full Story
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The Vancouver Canucks beefed up their offense by signing Swedish right winger Mikael Samuelsson on a three-year deal on Friday. Free agent Samuelsson, 32, has spent the last four seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, winning the Stanley Cup in 2008 and reaching the finals again this year. A member of Sweden's gold-medal-winning team at the 2006 Turin Olympics, he has registered 86 goals and 208 points in 466 NHL games. Samuelsson, whose move was announced on the team's... Read Full Story
