Conor Garland scored and Oliver Ekman-Larsson had three assists in their first games against their former team as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the visiting Arizona Coyotes 5-1 Tuesday night.

Bo Horvat, Elias Pettersson, J.T. Miller and Brock Boeser also tallied for the Canucks, and All-Star Thatcher Demko made 35 saves.

Lawson Crouse scored for the Coyotes, and Karel Vejmelka stopped 24 of 29 shots.

Garland and Ekman-Larsson were acquired in an offseason trade with Arizona for Loui Eriksson, Jay Beagle, Antoine Roussel and the Canucks’ first round pick in the 2021 NHL draft. The Coyotes used the No. 9 overall pick to select forward Dylan Guenther from Edmonton of the Western Hockey League.

After a scoreless first period, Vancouver tallied three times in a span of 2:22 early in the second.

Garland opened the scoring at 3:48 after Noah Juulsen tracked down Ekman-Larsson’s shot in the right-wing corner. Juulsen faked going behind the net and instead fed Garland for a one-timer from between the hashmarks.

The Canucks made it 2-0 on the power play at 4:44 of the period as Ekman-Larsson’s shot from the blue line deflected off Horvat’s knee and into the net. It was Ekman-Larsson’s first multi-point game with the Canucks.

Vancouver completed its three-goal barrage at 6:10 as Vasily Podzolkin pulled the puck off the right-wing boards at the blue line and made a nifty backhanded pass to set Pettersson free.

Pettersson beat Vejmelka with a wrist shot from between the faceoff circles.

The Coyotes got on the board at 13:31 of the second as Crouse found a rebound just outside the right post and put a backhander through the crease and off the far post and in.

The Canucks put the game away in the third as Miller scored at 6:20, taking the puck from Ekman-Larsson behind his own net and going end-to-end for the score.

Boeser capped the scoring with a power-play goal at 12:50.

–Field Level Media