Flyers shut out 4-0 by Canucks

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Henrik Sedin had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Miller made 29 saves to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.

Nick Bonino, Radim Vrbata and Jannik Hansen also scored for Vancouver, which snapped a three-game losing streak and broke out of a scoring slump. The Canucks tallied just two goals during their skid.

It was Miller's fourth shutout this season and 33rd of his NHL career. He returned to the net after missing two games due to illness. Miller improved to 5-2-1 with a 1.63 goals-against average in his last eight games.

Philadelphia dropped its second straight and fell further out of playoff contention. The Flyers entered Thursday 11 points out of a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

The Canucks scored two goals within 24 seconds of the second period.

Vrbata's wrist shot from the right circle beat Ray Emery high on the stick side on the power play to put Vancouver up 3-0 just 2:21 into the period.

Flyers coach Craig Berube pulled Emery and replaced him with 33-year-old rookie Rob Zepp, who was playing in his fourth career game.

Zepp, who started over Emery in place of injured Steve Mason (lower body) in the last two games, promptly surrendered Jannik Hansen's breakaway goal with 18:17 left in the period that made it 4-0. It was Hansen's 10th goal of the season but first in seven games.

Mason was injured Saturday in a loss to Boston and is expected to miss two weeks.

Miller made several outstanding saves in the period, snaring Luke Schenn's wrist shot from point-blank range with 13 1/2 minutes left and reaching out to rob Pierre-Edouard Bellemare 1 1/2 minutes later with another strong glove save. He extending a pad to deny Nick Schultz's slap shot with 10:35 left.

Miller had been winless in his last five trips to Philadelphia, but he improved to 4-7 in 12 games at the Wells Fargo Center since the 2010-11 season.

Vancouver jumped on the board with a pair of first-period goals. Bonino spun around from the right circle and whizzed a wrist shot past Emery's glove hand with 13:25 left. Sedin neatly deflected brother Daniel's shot from the point over Emery's right shoulder on the power play with 6:39 remaining.

NOTES: Philadelphia C Scott Laughton (upper body) didn't play after being injured Wednesday during a 1-0 loss at Washington. . The Flyers dropped to 2-6-1 in the second of back-to-back games this season. . Vancouver next plays the third game of a five-game trip at Carolina on Friday. ... Philadelphia was shut out in consecutive games for the first time since April 1-3, 2014.

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