The Vancouver Canucks defeated the Florida Panthers 5-1 at Rogers Arena on Sunday night. The Panthers have been winless in their last six games with a 0-4-2 record since the start of the 2019 calendar year.
Vancouver(21-21-5) got ahead at 12:32 of the second period. Loui Eriksson scored an unassisted goal for his eighth goal of the year.
Florida(17-19-8) tied the contest up early in the third period at the 5:29 mark . Frank Vatrano got the tally by Jacob Markstrom on assists from Henrik Borgstrom and Aaron Ekblad. It was the 12th goal of the season for Vatrano.
The Canucks answered back less than two minutes later at 7:20. Ben Hutton picked up fifth goal of the campaign.
The Panthers decided to pull their goalie Roberto Luongo for an extra attacker to try and tie the game with around three minutes to go. It failed as Vancouver compiled two empty-net goals from Brock Boeser with 2:17 left and Jay Beagle with 38 seconds to go.
An additional goal was put in by the Canucks with 11 seconds remaining to make it 5-1. Markus Granlund had his seventh goal of the season.
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