Roberto Luongo made 26 saves to match his career high with seven shutouts, and Daniel Sedin had two goals and an assist in the Vancouver Canucks' 4-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night. Alex Burrows had a goal and two assists, Ryan Kesler also scored, and Henrik Sedin had three assists to help the Canucks end Chicago's three-game winning streak and move into a fourth-place tie with the Blackhawks in the Western Conference. Vancouver also closed within a point of first-place... Read Full Story
Henrik Sedin scored twice in a 30-second span midway through a wild third period, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 on Friday night. Sedin's outburst came less than a minute and a half after the Kings tied it on goals by Alexander Frolov and Anze Kopitar 26 seconds apart, the later on a harmless wrist shot off the left boards during a 3-on-2 rush. Somehow it went past Roberto Luongo on the short side, but Sedin bailed out his goaltender a short while later, driving... 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
Jason LaBarbera made 22 saves, and twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin scored goals to help the Vancouver Canucks hand the Colorado Avalanche their sixth consecutive loss, 4-1 on Friday night. Pavol Demitra and Alexander Edler also scored for Vancouver. The Canucks beat Colorado for the second straight time after losing eight straight in the series. T.J. Galiardi opened the scoring for Colorado with his first NHL goal for Colorado, beating LaBarbera with a wrist shot with 6:35 left in the first... Read Full Story
Henrik Sedin scored with a minute left in overtime and Roberto Luongo stopped 33 shots, leading the Vancouver Canucks over the Minnesota Wild 2-1 on Tuesday night. Former Wild forward Pavol Demitra scored Vancouver's regulation goal late in the second period and Marian Gaborik tied it at 5:14 of the third for the Wild. The Canucks needed Luongo's dominance because they did not have a shot on goal the entire third period. It was the first time Minnesota held an opponent without a shot in a... Read Full Story
Roberto Luongo made 30 saves for his first shutout in four months, and the Vancouver Canucks extended their franchise-record home winning streak to 11 games with a 3-0 victory over St. Louis on Thursday night. After Vancouver was outshot badly through the first half of the game, Alex Burrows opened the scoring with 5:06 left in the second period. Mason Raymond and Henrik Sedin added goals 1:56 apart midway through the third to help the Canucks leapfrog Chicago for fourth place in the Western... Read Full Story
Daniel Sedin scored the go-ahead goal moments after taking a stick in the mouth, Ryan Kesler and Henrik Sedin each had two goals, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the fading Dallas Stars 5-2 Tuesday night. Vancouver is 17-4-1 over its last 22 games and has 87 points to surge into a tie for fourth place in the Western Conference with Chicago. Roberto Luongo stopped 35 shots to help the Canucks snap a four-game road losing streak. Dallas lost its fourth straight and has slipped four points... Read Full Story
Pavol Demitra and Steve Bernier scored 28 seconds apart late in the second period, and the Vancouver Canucks overcame an early two-goal deficit to beat the Minnesota Wild 4-2 on Tuesday night. Alex Burrows, who agreed to a four-year $8 million contract extension before the game, added two goals as the Canucks won for the 11th time in 13 games, staying four points ahead of Columbus for fifth place in the tightly packed Western Conference. Minnesota is nine points back — and three points... Read Full Story
Henrik Sedin had a goal and three assists, and Alex Burrows added a goal and two assists in the Vancouver Canucks' 5-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. Linemate Daniel Sedin had a goal and an assist, with his goal 8:35 into the second putting Vancouver up 4-0. Henrik Sedin got his third assist of the game on the play after contributing a goal and two assists in the first. Burrows, who had a goal and an assist in the first, also assisted on the Canucks' fourth goal as... Read Full Story
VANCOUVER, March 13 (Reuters) - Henrik Sedin scored twice
in the final period to help the Vancouver Canucks reel off
another home victory with a 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings
on Friday. The win was the Canucks's eighth consecutive on their home
ice, the first time they have won enjoyed a streak that long
since the 2006-07 season. With the game tied at 2-2, Sedin put the home team ahead at
8:44 in the third, before slamming home the clincher just 30
seconds later. "(On the second goal) I... Read Full Story
