Recap: Vancouver vs. Edmonton
By Sports Network
The Sports Network
Robert Luongo stopped 31-of-34 shots, while seven different players scored for Vancouver in a 7-3 rout of the Edmonton Oilers at General Motors Place.
Mason Raymond and Alexander Edler each had a goal and two assists for the Canucks, who have scored 24 goals over their last five games, recording a 4-1-0 mark during that span. Christian Ehrhoff and Daniel Sedin had a goal and an assist apiece.
Alexandre Burrows, Tanner Glass, and Mikael Samuelsson also lit the lamp for Vancouver, which fired 35 shots on net -- 16 in the first period. The Canucks went 4-for-5 on the power play.
"We jumped on them pretty hard at the beginning, got a lot of pucks on their net and our power play was real good so we had a real good start. Anytime you score the number of goals that we did in the first period in this league, it's a real good start," said Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault.
Dustin Penner and Gilbert Brule each had a goal and an assist for the Oilers, who started a season-long, six-game road trip on Saturday. Colin McDonald had the other score for Edmonton, which has dropped three in a row.
Jeff Deslauriers let up four goals on 11 shots before being pulled early in the first for Devan Dubnyk, who turned aside 21-of-24 shots the rest of the way in defeat.
"Tough hill to climb. Our penalty killing wasn't where it needed to be tonight. They just capitalized and made some good shots," said Penner.
The Canucks were in control from the start, scoring five goals in the first period.
Ehrhoff got the offense going with a power-play goal just 3:16 into the first. Burrows' score less than two minutes later made it a 2-0 game, and Raymond's power-play goal at the 7:04 mark gave Vancouver a three-goal margin.
Sedin's first goal of the year over a minute later made it 4-0. The Oilers finally got on the board when Brule lit the lamp with 5:16 to go, but Glass' score with 17 ticks remaining made it 5-1.
McDonald and Penner scored 1:04 apart early in the second to make it a 5-3 game. Penner's goal came on the power play at the 7:10 mark. The Canucks responded right back, as Edler scored his first goal of the year with 7:52 remaining to make it a three-goal game.
Samuelsson scored the lone goal of the third at the 9:59 mark.
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