Ducks Chase Luongo, Beat Canucks

[March 13, 2008]  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Travis Moen scored his first NHL short-handed goal, Doug Weight connected for a power-play tally, and the Anaheim Ducks broke a club record with their eighth straight home victory, beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Wednesday night.

Todd Marchant scored in his third straight game and Rob Niedermayer added a goal for the Ducks, who reached 40 wins for the fourth time in five seasons and avoided a four-game season sweep by the Canucks.

Jonas Hiller made 30 saves and earned an assist on Marchant's goal.

Vancouver's Roberto Luongo, making his 19th consecutive start and 35th in 37 games, was pulled 4:03 into the second period after allowing four goals on 19 shots. It was the third time in 61 starts this season that Luongo was benched.

Weight scored his 10th goal when Teemu Selanne's short wrist shot from the left of the net ricocheted off the far post and off Weight's chest. The puck landed at Weight's feet, and he converted the rebound.

Ryan Getzlaf's assist on the goal was his 52nd, the most by a center in the Ducks' 14-season history. Andy McDonald set the previous mark in 2005-06 and tied it last season.

Marchant opened the scoring at 10:53 of the first period, just 7 seconds after serving a tripping penalty. Chris Kunitz made a quick clearing pass after Hiller's save on Sami Salo's long slap shot, and Marchant caught up to the puck in the Vancouver zone with everyone else far behind the play.

Luongo came out to the top of the left circle to try to knock the puck away from him, but Marchant swerved around the sprawling goalie and put a wrist shot into the vacated net for his eighth goal.

Moen made it 2-0 just 2:24 later while teammate Mathieu Schneider was off for interference. Rob Niedermayer added his sixth goal at 16:49 of the period.

Rookie Mason Raymond got Vancouver on the board with 2:15 left in the first.

Notes: For the second straight season, All-Star C Henrik Sedin didn't score a goal in eight regular-season games the Canucks played against the Ducks and Los Angeles Kings. ... Anaheim has the longest home winning streak in the NHL this season. ... The Ducks are 15-2 at Honda Center since Dec. 18.

[Associated Press]

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