Ducks top Canucks for third straight victory
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Rookie Ondrej Kase scored his first NHL goal as the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Thursday night.
Jakob Silfverberg and Andrew Cogliano scored for the Ducks (12-8-4). Henrik Sedin scored for the Canucks (10-12-2).
Anaheim goalie John Gibson made 27 saves. Vancouver goaltender Ryan Miller, starting for the fourth time in five games, stopped 21 shots.
The Ducks won their third consecutive game and are 6-2-2 in their last 10. The Canucks saw a two-game win streak snapped. They are 3-2-1 in their last six matches.
Sedin scored Vancouver's goal at 13 minutes of the third, cutting's Anaheim's lead to 2-1.
Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler tried to clear the puck, but it took a strange bounce off the glass. Vancouver's Loui Eriksson pounced on the loose puck and passed to Sedin at the side of the net. He tipped it into the open corner for his sixth of the season.
The Ducks regained a two-goal lead at 17:35. Cogliano took a pass from defenseman Shea Theodore and took a shot that went through Miller's five-hole.
After a scoreless first period, the Ducks led 2-0 after 40 minutes.
Silfverberg scored the game's first goal at 3:19 of the second.
Fowler set up the play by weaving into the Vancouver zone, forcing the Canucks' defense to back up. That allowed Fowler to send a seeing-eye-pass to Silfverberg. He one-timed a shot from the top of the faceoff circle past Miller into the top corner of the net.
Kase, playing in his eighth NHL game after being picked 205th overall in the 2014 draft, gave the Ducks a two-goal lead at 14:35.
After taking a pass from Ryan Getzlaf, Kase swooped behind the Vancouver goal. The 21-year-old Czech threw a puck at the net that hit the skate of Canucks defenseman Nikita Tryamkin, then bounced off Erik Gudbranson and into the goal.
The Ducks dominated the first, spending most of the period in the Vancouver end. The Canucks didn't get a shot on goal until the nine-minute mark.
Early in the period, Silfverberg took a slap shot that knocked Miller's mask off.
NOTES: D Chris Tanev (ankle) and RW Jannik Hansen (fractured rib) skated prior to Vancouver's practice Wednesday but neither are expected to return to the lineup for at least a week. ... The Canucks finished November 6-7-1. ... Canuck scratches were D Alex Biega and C Joseph Labate. ... It was the 1,500th game behind the bench for Canuck assistant coach Perry Pearn. ... The Canucks had 11 players record points in their 5-4 victory over the Wild on Tuesday. ... Vancouver's three-game homestand ends Saturday against Toronto. ... The Ducks play 11 of 15 games in December on the road. ... Anaheim LW Joseph Cramarossa, who missed the last six games with a lower-body injury, skated Thursday morning. ... Ducks scratches were D Korbinian Holzer and RW Jared Boll. .... Anaheim was 8-4-2 last month, tying for the second-most November wins in franchise history. ... The Ducks' three-game Western Canada road trip continues Saturday in Edmonton before concluding Sunday in Calgary.