Red Wings at Canucks | Recap

VANCOUVER -- Lucas Raymond scored twice and had an assist for the Detroit Red Wings, who handed the Vancouver Canucks their ninth straight loss with a 5-2 victory at Rogers Arena on Thursday.

William Wallinder and Michael Rasmussen also scored for the Red Wings (4-3-3), who extended their point streak to six games (3-0-3). Michael Brandsegg-Nygard and Viktor Arvidsson each had two assists.  

John Gibson stopped four of five shots in the first two periods, but did not come out for the third period due to an upper-body injury. Michal Postava, who was recalled from Grand Rapids of the American Hockey League earlier in the day because of an undisclosed injury to Daniil Tarasov, made seven saves in relief in his NHL debut.

Jonathan Lekkerimaki had a goal and an assist, and forward Elias Pettersson scored for the Canucks (2-9-1), who are 0-8-1 in their past nine games. Kevin Lankinen made 26 saves.

Raymond put Detroit ahead 1-0 at 4:18 of the first period, deflecting an Albert Johansson point shot between his legs and over the blocker of Lankinen while skating towards the slot near the bottom of the left face-off circle.

Wallinder made it 2-0 at 6:04 by banking a shot in off the back of Lankinen from the goal line after his cross-ice pass bounced back to him off Dylan Larkin. 

Pettersson cut the deficit to 2-1 on the power play with a one-timer under Gibson’s left pad from the right dot at 7:02.

Raymond restored the two-goal lead with a power-play goal at 8:56. Alex DeBrincat threw the puck into the crease from the bottom of the left circle and the puck got caught under the right leg of Arvidsson as he got knocked down in the blue paint. Raymond pounced on the loose puck and backhanded it into an open net before Lankinen could cover it. 

Rasmussen scored his first goal of the season with a deflection in the slot at 14:58 of the second period to make it 4-1.

The Canucks were outshot 13-0 in the second. 

Emmitt Finnie made it 5-1 at 4:00 of the third period, taking a drop pass from Arvidsson off the rush at the hash marks with speed and shooting over a falling Lankinen from the bottom of the left circle after the goalie lost an edge. 

Vancouver got its first shot on goal since Pettersson’s goal at 6:16 of the third period, and Lekkerimaki converted a cross-crease pass off the rush from Marco Rossi at 10:37 for the 5-2 final.