Canucks top Senators to extend winning streak to five games

Elias Pettersson had one goal and two assists, Ilya Mikheyev netted two goals and the red-hot Vancouver Canucks defeated the Ottawa Senators 5-2 on Thursday.

With his three points on the night, Pettersson took hold of the NHL scoring lead (24 points) and is riding a seven-game point streak (five goals, nine assists).

Brock Boeser and J.T. Miller also scored for Vancouver (10-2-1), which extended its winning streak to five games.

Case DeSmith made 28 saves in goal for Vancouver.

Drake Batherson and Artem Zub scored for Ottawa (5-7-0), which has lost three of its last four games and was coming off a 6-3 win over Toronto Wednesday night.

Anton Forsberg stopped 11-of-16 shots.

Boeser got Vancouver going early, scoring just 15 seconds into the game. However, it wasn’t called a goal until 48 seconds later when it was reviewed at the first stoppage of play.

Filip Hronek picked up an assist on the play to extend his point streak to eight games.

The Canucks made it 2-0 at the three-minute mark of the opening period after an Ottawa giveaway led to Mikheyev beating Forsberg five-hole.

Batherson cut the deficit in half with 1:45 left in the first when he got DeSmith moving, pulled the puck back and beat him high.