Henrik Sedin: Sedins power Canucks, combine for 5G, 9Pts

“It’s tough sitting out at any time, but when you’re sitting out and your team’s losing a few games it makes it a little harder”, he said.

“We haven’t pressed the panic button, but we definitely need a sense of urgency here”.

Notes: Daniel Sedin’s assist in the first period was the 900th point of his career…. “We didn’t see any results, but we stuck with it and tonight we showed how good we can be if we play the right way”. The Canucks should be the more rested group though, as Chicago is on the back end of a back to back – Johnny Gaudreau scored in overtime to lead the Flames past the Hawks on Frdiay night in Calgary. “Everyone’s winning around us”, said Sedin. The Canucks are winless in four straight games, for the second time this season.

Quenneville paired center Jonathan Toews with Ryan Garbutt and Andrew Shaw.

In net, the Blackhawks will turn back to Corey Crawford, who got the night off in favor of Scott Darling on Friday in the first game of back to back contests.

The downturn was disappointing, but Miller said that rocky patch can be a positive for Vancouver moving forward. When we were healthy to start the year, I thought we were competitive, we played hard, we were physical, and I liked the mix of our team to start the year.

Things don’t get any easier for the Canucks, who play back-to-back home games this weekend against the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks and the improved New Jersey Devils before heading out on a four-game road trip.

Alex Burrows scored into an empty net late to seal it.

“Whenever you get down to”.

Their inability to win close games has cost the Canucks dearly this season. Vancouver is now 3-5-2 in the month of November.

Chicago was playing its third game in four nights, but opened the scoring on the power play at 6:17 of the opening period on the first shot of the game when Toews beat Miller upstairs for his seventh.

Vancouver got that one back on a 5-on-3 man advantage at 9:32 when Henrik Sedin gathered a cross-ice feed from Daniel Sedin and fired a shot that Crawford could only get a piece of for his sixth. Ryan Garbutt responded for Chicago less than a minute later as the teams were tied 2-2 after one period.

“It didn’t look great, but at least we won the game”, said Henrik Sedin. We still have a ways to go. Daniel Sedin gave Vancouver a 3-2 lead with a power-play goal at 7:22 of the second period.