Ducks 4, Canucks 0
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Goalie John Gibson stopped 25 shots to earn his first shutout of the season in the Anaheim Ducks' 4-0 rout of the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night at the Honda Center.
Centers Corey Perry and Shawn Horcoff, left winger Rickard Rakell and right winger Jakob Silfverberg provided the goals for the Ducks (9-11-5), who broke a two-game losing streak. The Canucks (9-9-7) absorbed their third loss in four games.
Gibson's third career shutout came 19 months after he silenced Vancouver in his NHL debut. The Pittsburgh native made 18 saves in a 3-0 victory on April 7, 2014.
The Ducks scored 1:19 into the game on Horcoff's fourth goal. Right winger Andrew Cogliano passed from behind the net to Horcoff, who flicked a quick wrist shot from the top of the right circle past goalie Ryan Miller.
Rakell extended Anaheim's lead to 2-0 when he backhanded a rebound in front of the crease for his sixth goal on a power play with 2.1 seconds left in the first period.
The Canucks had their best chance to score on a two-on-one breakaway about four minutes into the second period. However, Ducks center Mike Santorelli, trailing the play, lunged and used his stick to deflect right winger Alexandre Burrows' pass for center Adam Cracknell.
Silfverberg scored his second goal one minute into the third period on a rising slap shot from the right point into the upper-right corner of the net. Left winger Nick Ritchie earned an assist for his first NHL point.
Perry contributed his team-leading eighth goal at 8:39 of the final period, when he finished a breakaway with a wrist shot from the top of the slot. That goal drove Miller from the game in favor of Jacob Markstrom. Miller, who made 25 saves, allowed four goals for the fifth time this season.
Markstrom stopped the only shot he faced.
Vancouver had a four-minute power play when right winger Chris Stewart received a double minor for high sticking at 9:15 of the third period, but Anaheim's penalty-killers held the Canucks to three shots on goal. The Ducks entered the game leading the NHL with a 87.1 percent rate of killing penalties.
NOTES: Vancouver scratched D Andrey Pedan and LW Sven Baertschi. ... Canucks D Ben Hutton (lower body) practiced Sunday, and he likely will return from injured reserve later this week, coach Willie Desjardins said. ... Canucks RW Jannik Hansen entered the game needing one point for 200 in his career. ... Vancouver's defensemen had just eight goals coming into the game, the third-lowest total in the Western Conference. ... Anaheim scratched D Korbinian Holzer, D Shea Theodore and G Frederik Andersen, who practiced for the first time Saturday after missing three games because of the flu. Theodore and C Nate Thompson were recalled from San Diego (AHL) on Sunday. Thompson had yet to play for Anaheim after undergoing shoulder surgery in June. ... Ducks LW Jiri Sekac, who sprained his right ankle Nov. 1 against the Nashville Predators, is skating on his own, but no date is set for his return.