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Monday, December 30, 2013

{allcanada} Surging Flyers top Canucks in shootout

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VANCOUVER - Brayden Schenn picked up brother Luke by tying the game in the final minute of regulation, and Vincent Lecavalier completed the comeback with the only shootout goal, lifting the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-3 win against the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night.

After Luke Schenn accidentally knocked a rebound into his own net to put the Canucks ahead with 2:48 left in regulation, Brayden scored his first goal in 17 games with 46.8 seconds remaining and goalie Steve Mason pulled for the extra attacker.

Lecavalier beat Eddie Lack with a nice deke and forehand shot over the blocker in the first round of the shootout. Mason, who made 41 saves through overtime, stopped Mike Santorelli, Ryan Kesler and Daniel Sedin in the shootout to preserve the comeback win.

Tom Sestito and Jannik Hansen scored second-period goals to put the Canucks ahead, but Flyers captain Claude Giroux scored on a partial break with 68 seconds left in the period to tie it 2-2.

Mason and Lack traded big saves early in the third period before a lucky bounce finally put the Canucks back in front. Sedin's long shot off the left wing was batted away by the blocker of Mason, but hit Luke Schenn and bounced up and over the Flyers goaltender and into the net.

The lead lasted just over two minutes. After a scrambled draw by Lecavalier in the Vancouver end, Scott Hartnell won a battle atop the Canucks' crease and fed across Brayden Schenn for a tap-in goal.

Defenseman Mark Streit also scored the Flyers, who have points in seven of eight games (6-1-1) and have won the first two of a six-game road trip that continues Tuesday against the Calgary Flames.

Lack, who was coming off an 18-save shutout against Calgary the night before and making back-to-back starts for the first time in the NHL, finished with 24 saves. The Canucks lost for just the third time in December (10-1-2) and had their seven-game home winning streak snapped.

Streit opened the scoring with 4:36 left in the first period, lifting the puck into an empty net after rookie Michael Raffl took it hard to the net from the other side, spinning out Lack as he cut through the crease. The play started with Giroux winning a puck battle in the corner; the assist extended his point streak to nine games.

Fourth-liner Sestito tied it 4:24 into the second period, tapping a rebound into an empty net after a Dan Hamhuis point shot bounced off Mason's left pad right to him on the back side. Sestito, claimed off waivers from the Flyers in March, clutched the Canucks logo on his jersey as he celebrated his third goal of the season.

Hansen, who scored the winning goal in Calgary the night before, tied it after a nice play with Daniel and Henrik Sedin down low. After taking a pass from Henrik behind the net, Hansen cut out front to Mason's right and dropped a pass for Daniel, then looped around to the backside to tap the return feed into an open net.

Giroux tied it two minutes later after Raffl sent him in on a partial break, holding off the check of Hamhuis and drawing a penalty before slipping the bouncing puck between the legs of Lack.

After a slow start to the season that saw him record just seven assists in the first 15 games, Giroux has six goals and 17 points during his point streak and 37 points in 39 games overall.

Philadelphia's top line of Giroux, Raffl and Jakub Voracek has combined for 40 points in the past 10 games, though Voracek had his nine-game point streak snapped against the Canucks. Wayne Simmonds was also held without a point, ending a five-game point streak that included two goals in each of the past three games.

Already down to their ninth defenseman with the loss of Andrew Alberts on Sunday and the Monday morning recall of Frank Corrado from the American Hockey League, the Canucks got another scare when Kevin Bieksa was hit in the face by a clearing attempt with seven minutes left in the first period. Bieksa left clutching a towel to his face and the Flyers scored while he was in the locker room, but he was back before the period ended.

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