Dakota Joshua scored his 12th goal of the season as the Vancouver Canucks beat the Arizona Coyotes 2-1 at Rogers Arena on Thursday.
Elias Pettersson had the opening goal for the Canucks (30-11-4). Teddy Blueger, J.T. Miller, Quinn Hughes and Nils Hoglander recorded assists in the win.
Travis Dermott scored his first goal of the season for the Coyotes (21-19-3).
Thatcher Demko stopped 20 of 21 shots for Vancouver while Connor Ingram made 24 saves for Arizona.
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Pettersson scored with 3:11 left in the opening frame, hammering home a one-timer off a feed from Quinn Hughes.
But the Coyotes responded two minutes later with Dermott scoring his first goal of the season past Demko.
The Canucks outshot the Coyotes 14-4 in the first but went over 15 minutes before recording a shot in the second period.
Joshua eventually put Vancouver up 2-1 at 19:02 of the frame by burying his own rebound past Ingram.
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The Canucks had another slow start on offence in the third period, going eight minutes before recording a shot on goal, but managed to hang on to their lead.
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Vancouver hosts Toronto on Saturday.
Arizona hosts the Nashville Predators on Saturday.
Nick Wells, The Canadian Press
