VANCOUVER – Defenceman Quinn Hughes scored two goals in a game for the second time in his career and Thatcher Demko stopped 22 shots for the shutout as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the St. Louis Blues 5-0 Friday night to win their third consecutive game.
J.T. Miller scored shorthanded and added two assists for Vancouver (5-2-0).
Phil Di Giuseppe had a goal and an assist. Ilya Mikheyev scored once and Elias Petterson had two assists.
The shutout was the fourth of Demko’s career.
Hughes’s other two-goal came on Feb. 1, 2020, against the New York Islanders.
Goaltender Jordan Binnington stopped 30 shots for the Blues (3-3-1). St. Louis had defeated the Flames 3-0 in Calgary Thursday.
