Canucks win 4th straight without Hughes, beat Bruins 5-4 in shootout

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Quinn who?

Liam Ohgren scored the winner in a shootout, leading the suddenly red-hot Vancouver Canucks to a 5-4 win over the host Boston Bruins in a see-saw NHL matchup Saturday at TD Garden in Boston.

The Canucks (15-17-3) have now won four straight games since trading captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild last week. Linus Karlsson (2), Ohgren and Max Sasson scored in regulation time for the victors, with Kevin Lankinen making 38 saves for the goaltending win.

Morgan Geekie, Pavel Zacha, Tanner Jeannot and Andrew Peeke scored for the Bruins (20-15-1). Jeremy Swayman stopped 18 of 22 shots and took the loss in goal.

The Bruins dominated the first period, holding a 13-4 advantage in shots on goal.

Geekie open the scoring at 8:23 on the power play, taking a feed from Charlie McAvoy on the left side and ripping a shot past Lankinen. Geekie now has 25 goals on the season and 16 tallies in his last 17 home games.

Against the flow of play, the Canucks pulled even at 1-1 with 15 seconds remaining in the period. After some good forechecking from Liam Ohgren and Linus Karlsson, the puck came in front to Sasson, who beat Swayman blocker-side for his seventh goal of the year.

Karlsson put the Canucks up 2-1 4:22 into the second with a power-play marker. Swayman got caught out of the net and Evander Kane got the puck to Karlsson, who potted his sixth goal of the season.

Zacha evened it at 2-2 at 9:41, slotting him his 10th of the year into a wide-open net off a feed from former Canuck Nikia Zadorov.

Less than three minutes later, Jeannot made it 3-2, converting a slick spinning backhand pass from Mark Kastelic. It was Jeannot’s fourth goal of the year.

The Canucks looked to have tied it at 3-3 late in the third, but it was ruled the puck was knocked into the goal by the glove of Marcus Pettersson. Boston outshot Vancouver 15-8 in the middle frame.

Karlsson tied it at 3-3 just shy of the four-minute mark of the third, pouncing on a loose puck and ripping a shot over the left shoulder of Swayman.

Ohgren’s second goal of the year gave the Canucks the lead again at 4-3, as he tipped home a Pettersson point shot at 7:34.

With 3:44 left in the period, the Bruins pulled even at 4-4, when Peeke’s point shot hit the post and then banked off Lankinen and in.

In overtime, the teams traded good chances but failed to score. Both goalies were sharp in the shootout, giving up nothing through six rounds. In round seven, Ohgren beat Swayman with a nifty deke and Lankinen denied Geekie to win it for Vancouver.

The Canucks finish up their road swing Monday in Philadelphia (4 p.m.).

NOTES: Ohgren has three points in four games since arriving last week as part of the blockbuster trade that sent Hughes to Minnesota. Marco Rossi, who also came to Vancouver in the deal, earned his first point as a Canuck, assisting on Karlsson’s second goal… Lankinen has stopped all 14 shootout shots he has faced this year, and 45 of 51 for his career… The Canucks were 1-for-4 on the power play, while the Bruins scored once in three chances.