In Vancouver Tuesday night, Matt Beleskey, Kyle Palmieri, Rickard Rakell and Patrick Maroon scored for the Anaheim Ducks and Frederik Andersen made 17 saves to lead the Ducks to a 4-0 shutout of the Canucks.
“They didn’t really have anything noticeable,” Andersen said of the Canucks. “They made it really easy on me today. It’s a nice game to come back to after a little bit of a break. We had the puck in their zone most of the time and they didn’t really have any chances off the rebounds. They were able to clear it out for me and make it easy.”
The Ducks now have 70 points in the standings, the first club to reach the mark this season.
“We just want to go with the same pace we have been and keep showing we are among the very best teams in this League,” Andersen said.
Anaheim have won six straight and Andersen has won seven straight.
“We definitely started right where we left off,” Ducks center Ryan Kesler said. “You are a little worried about that coming back from the break but I thought we played a full 60 minutes.”
Ryan Miller took the loss for Vancouver and made 20 stops on the night.
“It was a disappointing game,” Miller said. “A couple errors on my part or else maybe we get some confidence and they don’t get to play the game where they can just kind of sit back at times. They might have to push a little more and that opens things up.”
The Canucks lamented the lack of effort across the bench in losing to the NHL’s best team thus far.
“Not good enough at all,” Henrik Sedin said. “If we’re a team that’s going to roll four lines we need everyone to contribute and we’re not getting that right now.”
Conversely, the Ducks got their scoring from three lines and that had an impression on the Canucks.
“They play well defensively. That’s this conference; there’s no easy games,” Henrik Sedin said. “We’re coming down the stretch now and everyone’s going to play this way. We have to bear down. I don’t think we were hard enough on pucks. We lost too many battles.”
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