Boeser has goal and assist as Canucks score 5 in 1st period to beat Ducks 6-2

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Brock Boeser had a goal and an assist in Vancouver's five-goal first period and the Canucks beat the Anaheim Ducks 6-2 on Saturday.

Connor Garland, Filip Hronek, Dakota Joshua, Max Sasson and rookie defenseman Elias Pettersson also scored for Vancouver, and Quinn Hughes had two assists. Thatcher Demko stopped 32 shots to help the Canucks pull six points behind Minnesota for the second wild card in the Western Conference.

Troy Terry and Trevor Zegras scored for Anaheim, and Lukas Dostal finished with 30 saves.

Terry scored on Anaheim's first shot on goal 1:22 into the game for a 1-0 lead.

The Ducks then scored five times in a 4:30 span to take a 5-1 lead.

Canucks: Vancouver, 10-1-0 in its last 11 games against the Ducks, allowed an opening goal in the first five minutes for the 11th time this season — sixth at home. They rebounded to score six goals for the fifth time.

Ducks: Anaheim is 12th in the West and has been eliminated from playoff contention. Terry became the fourth Ducks player with 20 goals this season, joining Leo Carlsson, Mason McTavish and Frank Vatrano.

Petterson tied the score 1-1 with his first NHL goal at 9:40 of the first off a pretty assist from Linus Karlsson to start the five-goal outburst. Hronek deflected Teddy Bleuge's shot at 10:46 to put the Canucks ahead. Boeser and Garland had power-play goals 2:53 apart, and Joshua scored with 5:50 left in the period to give Vancouver a 5-1 lead.

Anaheim has give up 78 goals in the first period, third-most in the NHL — trailing only San Jose (88) and Seattle (86).

Ducks host Edmonton on Monday, and Canucks host Vegas on Sunday.

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Vancouver Canucks' Filip Hronek (17) and Teddy Blueger (53) celebrate Hronek's goal against the Anaheim Ducks during the first period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP

Vancouver Canucks' Elias Pettersson (25) and Jonathan Lekkerimäki (23) celebrate Pettersson's goal against the Anaheim Ducks as ansen Harkins (38) skates past during the first period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Filip Hronek (17) clears the puck as Marcus Pettersson (29) Teddy Blueger (53) and Anaheim Ducks' Leo Carlsson (91) watch during the second period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Victor Mancini (90) clears the puck as Anaheim Ducks' Nikita Nesterenko (62) attacks during the second period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Max Sasson (63) scores on Anaheim Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal (1) during the third period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks fans taunt Anaheim Ducks' Olen Zellweger (51) as he skates past the glass after Vancouver's Max Sasson's goal during the third period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Max Sasson (63) celebrates his goal as Anaheim Ducks' Oliver Kylington (58) skates in front during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Anaheim Ducks' Frank Vatrano (77) and Vancouver Canucks' Quinn Hughes (43) vie for the puck during the third period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Anaheim Ducks' Alex Killorn (17) and Vancouver Canucks' Filip Hronek (17) vie for the puck during the third period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Max Sasson (63) celebrates his goal as Anaheim Ducks' Oliver Kylington (58) skates in front during the third period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Brock Boeser, not seen scores on Anaheim Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal (1) as Radko Gudas (7) and Vancouver's Jake DeBrusk (74) watch during the first period of an NHL game in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for projects and tries to reduce funding for nonprofits that handle housing discrimination complaints.

“I shudder to think what’s going to happen — there’s still a lot of residential segregation," King, CEO of The King Center and the youngest daughter of civil rights leaders The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, told The Associated Press. "It’s better than it was during my father’s lifetime. But going forward, we may end up right back where we were in the ‘50s and in the ’60s. People will feel very emboldened to discriminate because they know there’s nothing there to to stop it."

In February, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development canceled millions of dollars in grants to nonprofits that handle housing discrimination complaints. A judge temporarily froze the terminations, which HUD said targeted funding awards that included diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, language.

The department will uphold the Fair Housing Act and combat discrimination in housing, a HUD official said, adding that no staffing changes specific to the department have been announced.

King said the attacks on what the administration calls DEI look familiar.

“To me, these are those same old historic, divide-and-conquer tactics to try to keep people fighting with each other and keep people separated and keep a certain hierarchy existing in a society,” she said.

Whenever she can, King said she highlights her father's legacy pressing for economic equality, including speaking Thursday at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle, near where Habitat for Humanity of Seattle-King & Kittitas Counties is building a new condominium named after him.

The 58-unit apartment block is located on Martin Luther King Jr. Way in King County, which is also named for him. Construction on the site has started and units will eventually be sold to buyers at affordable prices.

Seattle Habitat CEO Brett D’Antonio, said naming the building after King offered a chance to talk about racial equity in housing, part of Habitat for Humanity's efforts to raise awareness about fair housing, including its fundraising campaign Home is the Key, in April in remembrance of the Fair Housing Act's passage.

“There was just no better opportunity to name the building in honor of Dr. King as we look to the work ahead of us in tackling affordable housing needs across the country, but also here in Seattle,” he said.

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago to try to break through discrimination in housing, which left Black residents paying more in rent for worse conditions than white tenants.

Martin Luther King Jr. campaigned in Chicago, speaking to crowds of tens of thousands around the area and leading a march to City Hall to tape their demands on the front door. A week after he was assassinated in 1968, the Fair Housing Act was signed into law, which prohibited discrimination in housing based on race and other characteristics and created mechanisms to resolve complaints.

She said the dream of fair and equitable housing that the law's passage signaled has still not be realized.

“To allow its provisions to be weakened is to betray the commitment and the sacrifices made to realize it,” she said, speaking in Seattle.

Large discrepancies in homeownership between Black, Hispanic and white Americans persist today, though that is just one measure of inequity in housing access. The National Fair Housing Alliance found housing discrimination complaints reached a record 34,000 in 2023, with most involving rentals and over half having to do with discrimination based on disability.

Diane Levy, who researches housing at the Urban Institute, said she was concerned about who will take future fair housing complaints if funding to nonprofits that handle those complaints is significantly diminished.

“If you experience discrimination, if it’s blatant, that takes a toll," she said, adding even unseen discrimination limits where you can live and whether to rent or buy home, which, in turn, limits where you can work or go to school.

Levy also noted the administration ended federal protections against housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Bernice King said this moment calls for creativity and perseverance.

“People feel like it’s okay to discriminate — okay to suppress, oppress and deny,” she said. “It just means those of us who are on the side of standing up for what is right and fighting for freedom, justice and equality, having even more work to do.”

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FILE - Hands of civil rights leaders Al Raby, left, and Dr. Martin Luther King, post a scroll on door of Chicago's City Hall, July 10, 1966. (AP Photo/Larry Stoddard, File)

FILE - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King wave to crowd in street from center window of a third-floor walk-up apartment he rented on Chicago's West Side, Jan. 26, 1966. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch, File)

FILE - Bernice King daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during a news conference at the King Jr Center Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)