OTTAWA -- Daniel Sedin scored his 300th goal early in the second period, and then assisted on a power-play goal by Jason Garrison, as the Vancouver Canucks scored four times in the first half of the middle period to go on to a 5-2 win against the Ottawa Senators on Thursday.
Garrison and David Booth also had a goal and an assist, and Henrik Sedin had two assists. Dale Weise scored Vancouver's fourth goal on Craig Anderson in a span of 8:51 in the second period. Mike Santorelli scored an unassisted goal against Robin Lehner in the third.
Roberto Luongo made 37 saves for the Canucks, who won for the second time in nine games (2-4-3) to begin a four-game road trip.
Daniel Sedin is the third Vancouver player to reach the 300-goal milestone after Markus Naslund, the Canucks' all-time leader with 346 goals, and Trevor Linden (318).
Ottawa's Clarke MacArthur scored his 100th goal at 8:50 of the first period. Mika Zibanejad scored at 18:58 of the second to draw the Senators to within 4-2.
Anderson stopped 11 of 15 shots before he was pulled at 9:40 of the second. He was replaced on the first stoppage in play after Weise's goal by Lehner, who made 12 saves the rest of the way.
It was the first of two meetings between the two Canadian teams this year. The Canucks will host Ottawa on March 2 at BC Place in the Tim Hortons 2014 Heritage Classic.
The Senators overcame a two-goal deficit for a 6-4 win against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday to return from a 2-1-0 road trip. Ottawa welcomes the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday in former captain Daniel Alfredsson's first game back in Canada's capital.
The Canucks continue their trip Saturday against the New York Rangers for the first regular season game between the two teams since Vancouver coach John Tortorella was fired by New York, and Rangers coach Alain Vigneault was let go by the Canucks.
Luongo was in pain after he was struck high on the left side of his body, near the mask, by Kyle Turris' one-timer from the right side at the 16-second mark of the second period. Canucks trainer Mike Burnstein came off the bench to attend to Luongo, who remained in the game.
Daniel Sedin took his twin brother Henrik's pass from behind the net and beat Anderson with a low shot inside the left post for his milestone goal at 0:31 of the second, the first of three Vancouver goals 3:35 apart early in the middle period.
Booth scored his second goal of the season 45 seconds later to put the Canucks up 2-1 at 1:16. Garrison scored a power-play goal at 4:06 to increase the lead to 3-1. Weise made it 4-1 at 9:22.
Vancouver had scored two goals or less in seven of its previous eight games.
Senators defenseman Jared Cowen was left out of the lineup for the first time this season.
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