Lucas Raymond scored twice and added an assist, leading the visiting Detroit Red Wings to a 5-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.
William Wallinder, Michael Rasmussen and Emmitt Finnie also scored for the Red Wings, who have earned points in six straight games (3-0-3). Michael Brandsegg-Nygard and Viktor Arvidsson chipped in two assists each as Detroit improved to 9-1-1 in its past 11 meetings against the Canucks.
Red Wings goaltender John Gibson made four saves on five shots through two periods but left the game with an upper-body injury.
Michal Postava, who was recalled from the AHL Grand Rapids on Wednesday, replaced Gibson to start the third period and stopped seven of the eight shots he faced in his NHL debut.
Jonathan Lekkerimaki scored and added an assist while Elias Pettersson also tallied for the Canucks, who are winless in nine straight (0-8-1) and dropped to 1-4-0 on home ice this season.
Kevin Lankinen, who stopped 26 shots, fell to 1-7-0 on the season.
The Canucks were held without a shot on goal in the second period.
Detroit outshot Vancouver 11-5 in the first period and led 3-1 after 20 minutes.
Raymond opened the scoring at 4:18 of the opening frame, redirecting an Albert Johansson point shot short side past Lankinen.
Detroit doubled its lead at 6:04 as Wallinder put his shot off Lankinen’s pad and in.
Vancouver responded on a power play at 7:02 as Pettersson one-timed a Filip Hronek feed between Gibson’s pads.
Raymond added his second of the frame on a power play at 8:56, poking home a feed from Alex DeBrincat past Lankinen.
Detroit extended its lead to 4-1 at 14:58 of the middle frame as Rasmussen redirected an Anton Johansson point shot past Lankinen for his first of the season.
Finnie made it 5-1 four minutes into the third, putting a shot past Lankinen, who lost an edge on the play.
Vancouver cut the deficit to 5-2 at 10:37 as Lekkerimaki tapped in a cross-ice feed from Marco Rossi.
–Field Level Media
