VANCOUVER -- Anaheim Ducks goaltender Frederik Andersen picked up where he left off before the All-Star break.
Matt Beleskey, Kyle Palmieri, Rickard Rakell and Patrick Maroon scored, and Andersen made 17 saves for his third shutout this season to lead the Ducks to a 4-0 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena on Tuesday.
It was Andersen's seventh straight victory and the sixth in a row for the Ducks (32-10-6), who became the first NHL team to reach 70 points.
Beleskey opened the scoring with a fluttering slap shot that bounced into the net off the glove of Ryan Miller with 6:17 left in the first period. Andersen started the play that led to Palmieri's goal on a power play after a wild sequence 7:19 into the second period.
Andersen outwaited fellow Dane Jannik Hansen, who lost the puck on a shorthanded breakaway, and the goalie moved the loose puck to Rakell before being knocked over by Hansen. As Andersen skated off on the delayed penalty to Hansen, Palmieri raced down the ice and surprised Miller with a 25-foot shot between the legs.
Miller finished with 20 saves for the Canucks (26-17-3), but didn't look good on the first two goals. Beleskey's slap shot of a rolling puck from the top of the left circle deflected in off his glove after dipping and fluttering on its way to the net. Miller also dropped awkwardly and late to one knee, using a technique normally reserved for sharp-angle shots, when Palmieri shot between his legs off the rush.
Not that it mattered with the Canucks' offense struggling at home.
Vancouver was shut out for the second straight home game - there was a five-game road trip in-between. The Canucks were outshot 7-2 in the second period and 8-5 in the third.
Rakell, who also had an assist, made it 3-0 on another rush midway through the third period. His shot from just inside the blue line hit the stick of Canucks defenseman Frank Corrado, who was taking the place of injured Kevin Bieksa, and went over Miller's blocker.
Maroon hit the empty net with 31.9 seconds left.
Andersen made his best stops in the first period, sliding across to get in front of a backdoor pass off the body of Canucks captain Henrik Sedin driving to the net nine minutes in, and gloving down Daniel Sedin's one-timer with six minutes left.
Andersen got a break when former Ducks center Nick Bonino hit the post midway through the second period. He preserved his third career shutout with a nice glove on Hansen with eight minutes left.
Vancouver forward Derek Dorsett left early in the second period after getting hit in the head during a collision with former Canucks center Ryan Kesler. Dorsett did not return.
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