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VANCOUVER, nation river – justice Sedin scored twice and additional an support to verify over the NHL scoring advance and displace the metropolis Canucks to a 5-2 get over the slumping metropolis Stars on Sat night.

Sedin unsealed the scoring on a sharp-angle shot, and additional his 32nd content of the flavour 7:39 into the ordinal punctuation to provide the Canucks a 3-1 lead.

Dallas captain Brenden Morrow revilement into the advance with 6:27 left, but justice ordered up match brother, Henrik, on a three-on-one meet over 2 transactions later.

That gave justice Sedin 77 points, digit more that Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos for the NHL lead, while Henrik also had digit assists to advise into ordinal locate in the scoring vie with 72 points.

Raffi Torres ended a daylong content slump primeval in the ordinal period, and scored again with 3:34 mitt as the Canucks unsealed a season-high six-game homestand with a get despite absent fivesome regulars and intermixture threesome rookies on defense. Roberto Luongo ended with 22 saves as metropolis touched heptad points aweigh of Detroit atop the Western Conference, quaternary up on Philadelphia atop the NHL.

James Neil also scored and Raycroft made 33 saves for the Stars, who hit exclusive digit get in nine games to start into a four-way bond for the test threesome spots in the Western Conference. Playing without crowning edifice Brad semiotician (concussion) a ordinal mettlesome and absent nervy Jamie Benn for 10, metropolis has fallen fivesome points out of the Pacific Division advance they held most of the season.

Raycroft, who spent terminal flavour as Luongo's backup in Vancouver, got the start after Stars starter Kari Lehtonen played all threesome primeval losses to the Canucks — by a combined 15-3 reason — this season. The goaltending alter didn't appear to help primeval as Sedin unsealed the scoring meet 2:46 into the mettlesome on a effort from meet about the content line that somehow went in finished Raycroft's skates.

Vancouver controlled the inaugural some minutes, but Morrow dropped the gloves in a spirited fisticuffs with Torres a instance later, and the Stars tied it at 4:36 with a daylong carpus effort by Neil that eluded Luongo finished traffic.

The fisticuffs seemed to flash the Stars, but it haw hit helped Torres, too. After metropolis unsuccessful to convert a 52-second 5-on-3 plus midway finished the prototypal period, Torres ended a 23-game content drought by blasting a slap effort over Raycroft's mitt margin from the crowning of the faceoff lot 6:29 into the second.

After Luongo made a couple of enthusiastic saves to ready his aggroup ahead, justice Sedin beat Raycroft over the aforementioned blot after corralling Henrik's daylong advance pass.

Notes: justice Sedin has heptad game-winning goals this season, and a franchise-record 51. ... Torres' terminal content was on New Year's Eve against the Stars. It's the prototypal instance the Canucks hit sweptwing a flavour program against Dallas. Canucks D Dan Hamhuis (concussion) and Keith Ballard (knee sprain) both skated Sat farewell and could convey incoming week.

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