Ducks sting Canucks

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In Vancouver, the Anaheim Ducks got two goals from Adam Henrique and they defeated the Canucks, 5-1, on Sunday night.

Adam Henrique had two goals for the Ducks – file photo by Lewis Bleiman

“We’ve pretty good at that this season, bouncing back from tough games,” Henrique said. “We wanted to get back to basics, back to our game, put the work boots on, even though it’s a tough place to come in and play. It was great performance throughout the lineup.”

John Gibson made 37 saves in the win.

Elias Pettersson scored the lone goal for the Canucks who have lost five of seven.

“It felt like we were always a step behind,” Petterson said. “It felt like we were not there on the forecheck. They won most of the battles. Those small details have to be better.”

The Canucks have surrendered first place in the Pacific Division to the Edmonton Oilers.

“We have to start playing some better hockey,” the Canucks’ Bo Horvat said. “Down the stretch here it’s going to get tighter, the games are going to get harder, and we have to be better. You can tell things are starting to get a lot more heated, it’s a lot tighter out there and [there’s] not a lot of room. It’s crunch time now. This is the time of year we have to be better.”

Derek Grant, Sam Steel and Brendan Guhle added single markers for the Ducks.

“We scored five goals, which is rare for our team, but I thought our guys were really engaged,” Anaheim head coach Dallas Eakins said. “In warmup, I usually don’t pop my head out there, but I went out and I just felt like they were ready, and that’s on them. They knew the League and people were going to be watching to see how we were going to respond, and to a man they responded very well.”

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Thatcher Demko made 23 saves in the loss.

“That wasn’t good enough on our part,” Horvat said. “We did some good things in the second period, scored a big power-play goal. The momentum kind of shifted. I thought we played pretty well, but the third period wasn’t good enough. We didn’t have enough push.”