Henrique helps Ducks cruise past Canucks

VANCOUVER -- Adam Henrique scored twice to help the Anaheim Ducks defeat the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 at Rogers Arena on Sunday.

John Gibson made 37 saves for the Ducks (24-27-7), who were coming off a 6-0 loss to the Calgary Flames on Thursday.
"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."
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Elias Pettersson scored, and Thatcher Demko made 23 saves for the Canucks (32-22-5), who had won two straight and are 2-4-1 in their past seven. It was Vancouver's second loss in its past 13 home games (11-2-0).
"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."
Vancouver trails the Edmonton Oilers by one point for first in the Pacific Division.
"We have to start playing some better hockey," Canucks captain 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."
Anaheim's power play, which was 1-for-21 in the previous eight games, went 2-for-2 to help the Ducks improve to 6-1-2 in their past nine road games.

"An area you'd obviously like to be better [in], but we keep improving, made some changes as of late," Henrique said of the Ducks, who are 12-16-4 on the road. "We've been doing a good job of simplifying and trying to attack."
Henrique put the Ducks ahead 1-0 at 5:38 of the first period when he centered the puck and it deflected in off the stick of Canucks defenseman Troy Stecher.

Derek Grant made it 2-0 at 12:22 with Stecher in the penalty box for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Henrique made it 3-0 on the power play at 7:25 of the second period off a cross-ice pass by Troy Terry.
"The game plan is more just attack, attack, attack and get pucks there and opportunities," Henrique said. "I'm trying to read off [Terry], and we seem to be on the same page, simplifying and attacking and getting those second third opportunities, and tonight it paid off."
Pettersson's one-timer on the power play cut it to 3-1 at 11:00. Vancouver hit the post behind Gibson twice before the second period ended.

"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."
Sam Steel extended the lead to 4-1 off the rush at 5:12 of the third period.
Brendan Guhle made it 5-1 at 13:44.

"We scored five goals, which is rare for our team, but I thought our guys were really engaged," said Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins, whose team scored five or more goals for the fifth time this season. "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."

They said it

"You can just tell when he's in his zone and he's locked in. He's our backbone and he had it going tonight. You could just see it in his face, like he's so competitive he doesn't care if it's one that he shouldn't have, he's not going to give up on it, he's going to try for it, and you saw him just fighting for everything tonight. When we see him doing that, it really lifts all of us." -- Ducks forward Troy Terry on goalie John Gibson
"There were a couple of moments I could have played differently. We just weren't able to score on our chances, and they scored on theirs." -- Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko

Need to know

Ducks forward Ondrej Kase missed a third straight game with illness. … The Canucks played their third game in a row without forward Brock Boeser, who is tied with defenseman Quinn Hughes for third on Vancouver with 45 points (16 goals, 29 assists). An update on his upper-body injury is expected early in the week.

What's next

Ducks: At the Calgary Flames on Monday (4 p.m. ET; ESPN+, SNW, PRIME, NHL.TV)
Canucks: Host the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday (10:30 p.m. ET; SNP, FS-N, FS-WI, NHL.TV)