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Canucks 4, Red Wings 1
Sven Baertschi scored his first two goals of the season, and
Derek Dorsett scored his fourth goal in the past three games as
the Vancouver Canucks downed the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on
Sunday.
Jake Virtanen added the final goal for Vancouver. Anthony Mantha
had the only tally for Detroit.
The Canucks (4-3-1) improved to 3-1-0 on their five-game road
trip, while the Red Wings (4-4-1) fell to 0-3-1 in their past
four games.
Dorsett snapped a 1-1 tie 8:30 into the second period with his
team-leading fifth goal. Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard got a glove
on Dorsett's breakaway shot, but the puck bounced over Howard,
hit him in the back of the left leg and rolled into the net.
Baertschi made it 3-1 with his second goal of the night,
intercepting a clearing attempt by Wings defenseman Xavier
Ouellet and whipping a shot past Howard at 13:39 of the second
period.
The margin was increased to 4-1 with 24.7 seconds left in the
second frame. Daniel Sedin fed Virtanen on a two-on-one. Howard
stopped Virtanen's first shot, but Virtanen drove the rebound
into the net.
The Canucks opened the scoring at 14:34 of the first period. Bo
Horvat's shot toward the Wings net deflected off the stick of
Detroit's Dylan Larkin right to Baertschi, who cut around Howard
(33 saves) and stuffed the puck home. Brock Boeser also assisted
on the goal, giving the Canucks' rookie forward six points in as
many games.
Mantha tied the score at 18:28 of the first. Mantha took a pass
from Gustav Nyquist and ripped a high snapshot from the of the
left faceoff circle into the top corner on goalie Jacob
Markstrom's glove side.
Markstrom finished with 20 saves.
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