Canucks power past Maple Leafs with two late power play goals Miller, Pettersson score off the power play to get the Canucks the 6-4 win

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In Vancouver, the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs outshot the Canucks, 46-21, and still managed to lose a 6-4 decision on Saturday.

With the score tied, 4-4, in the third, the Canucks’ J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson scored power-play goals three and half minutes apart to help send Vancouver to the win.

Thatcher Demko made 42 saves in the win.

The Canucks improved to 31-11-4 to extend their point streak to eight games.

“We found a way, our power play found a way,” Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes (three assists) said. “Contributions from every line, Hoglander going, the Garland line was arguably our best line again, and [Pettersson] and [Miller] on the power play. Big win for us.”

The Canucks took a 3-0 lead in the opening stanza.

Nils Hoglander scored the first of a pair of goals for Vancouver at 3:06  for a 1-0 lead.

He picked up his double at 6:00 of the first.

Connor Garland also potted a double on the night, his first came at 12:58 for the 3-0 advantage.

“We would’ve loved to have it end 3-0, but the fans, this is obviously what they came for — two high offense teams going at it,” Garland said. “It was a fun game to be a part of and a lot more fun when you come out on top.”

The Maple Leafs dropped to 22-14-8 off their fifth loss in six games.

“We did a lot of good things, ended up outshooting them pretty significantly in the game,” Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said. “But as much as we fight back, which I love, and I liked a lot of things we did to start that second period to get us back in the game, you can’t spot that team three goals.”

The Maple Leafs rallied back with a trio of goals.

William Nylander trimmed the deficit to 3-1 at 4:53 of the middle frame.

“I made a mistake on their first goal, obviously, and it kind of started an avalanche there,” Demko said.

Toronto’s Jake McCabe cut the deficit to 3-2 at 7:26.

“We came in here as a group and knew that was pretty pathetic,” The Leafs’ Mitchell Marner said. “We knew the pace of this game was going to be very high and very competitive, and we didn’t bring it in the first period, and I like our response in the second.”

Nylander collected his double at 8:19  to tie the game, 3-3.

“Second and third period, I think we took it to them, except for their power play,” Nylander said. “Other than that, we were playing a good game.”

Garland hit for his double with 60 seconds left on the clock in the second period for a 4-3 lead to the Canucks.

“That was a bit of a theme for the game with their goals, just them outcompeting us around our net, so obviously didn’t like that,” Keefe said. “But aside from that, from the second half of the first period for the remainder of the game, at worst the game was even. For the most part I thought we were the better team.”

The Maple Leafs got even, again, at 4-4, when Marner scored at 3:13 of the third period.

“We pride ourselves on helping this team win games and just our special teams in general hasn’t been good enough for quite a while now,” Marner said.

Martin Jones made 15 saves in the loss.