NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Phillip Di Giuseppe and Nils Hoglander scored goals early in the second period to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
Ilya Mikheyev also scored, and Thatcher Demko made 15 saves for Vancouver, winners of two straight. The Canucks wrapped up a five-game road trip with three wins and two losses.Colton Sissons and Kiefer Sherwood scored and Juuse Saros made 21 saves for Nashville, which had its two-game winning streak snapped.
Mikheyev scored the game’s first goal at 4:29 of the opening period with a wrist shot from the high slot that deflected off the stick of Predators' defenceman Roman Josi and over Saros’ left shoulder. Vancouver came out strong in the second period with Di Giuseppe scoring 22 seconds in and Hoglander following at 3:11.
Sherwood drew Nashville to within a goal at 9:18 of the second, converting on a one-timer from the top of the left circle off of a cross-ice feed from Tommy Novak on a 3-on-2 Nashville rush.After posting just one assist in Nashville’s first five games of the season, Sherwood has two goals and an assist in the last two games.There was just one penalty called through 2 1/2 periods in the game.
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