Conor Garland, Elias Pettersson and Pius Suter each had a goal and an assist when hosting Vancouver Canucks continued their mastery of the road-tired Chicago Blackhawks with a dominant 6-2 victory on Saturday night.
Quinn Hughes, Tyler Myers and Nils Aman also scored for Vancouver, who swept the season series with three games by winning their 10th straight competition over the Blackhawks. Arturs Silovs stopped 17 out of 19 shots.
Alex Vlasic and Wyatt Kaiser scored and Ryan Donato had two assists for Chicago, who started another poor start in the last competition in a winless four games. Chicago has lost 10 of the last 11 matches from the United Center.
Goalkeeper Arvid Soderblom fought, which allowed three goals on his first nine shots and ended with nine saves on 15 shots.
Vancouver opened the score with two goals from a couple of defenders just 35 seconds apart late in the first period.
The reigning Norris Trophy winner Hughes pulled the first blood, took a pass on the point and went and skipped in and threaded a shot just over his left Bendyna and under the glove by Soderblom with 2:14 left in the first.
Defender Myers made it 2-0 with a similar wrist shot that also beat Soderblom to the glove side.
Garland scored to make it 3-0 in Canucks eight plus minutes into the other. He beat Soderblom with backhand from the right post after working a GE-and-Go with Suter in the Chicago zone.
Vlasic made for Chicago with 69 seconds left in the other to make it 3-1 when his long shots, through a screen, sailed over the left axis on Silov.
Pettersson made 4:01 of the third to do it 4-1. His first shot went in so fast that the judges missed it. The game continued until Nils Hoglander also beat Soderblom with a wrist shot. A video sadness showed that Pettersson had already scored before Hoglander set his own.
Kaiser made at 5:22 of the third to pull Chicago within 4-2, but Canucks responded with two quick goals by Aman and Suter just eight seconds apart and the route was on.
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