Lankinen makes 20 saves and Canucks end skid with 3-0 win over Maple Leafs

TORONTO (AP) — Kevin Lankinen made 20 saves for his fourth shutout of the season and the seventh of his career, Quinn Hughes had a goal and an assist, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0 on Saturday night.

Brock Boeser and Kiefer Sherwood also scored goals while Tyler Myers had two assists for Vancover, which snapped a four-game losing streak.

Dennis Hildeby stopped 15 shots for the Leafs, who were coming off Thursday’s 6-3 road loss in Carolina that snapped a five-game winning streak.

Boeser put Vancouver up 1-0 just 31 seconds into the game when he tipped in the game’s first shot off a Myers effort from the point.

Hughes doubled Vancouver’s lead late in the second period on a delayed penalty before Sherwood made it 3-0 early in the third.

Canucks: Coach Rick Tocchet said the team didn’t land in Toronto until noon and arrived at its hotel around 2 p.m. despite a police escort from the airport.

Leafs: Hildeby made his fifth career start with Joseph Woll getting the night off. His last appearance was a 30-save performance in a 3-2 overtime victory against the Philadelphia Flyers on Jan. 5. Anthony Stolarz, who had great numbers to open the season splitting time with Woll, remains on injured reserve with a knee issue that required surgery last month.

Vancouver was set to go on its first power play late in the second, but Hughes stretched the visitors’ lead to two when the captain scored his ninth on a shot that caromed in past Hildeby.

The Canucks entered Saturday's game having dropped six of their last seven games (1-3-3) and had just one regulation victory since mid-December.

Canucks: Conclude a five-game road trip Tuesday night in Winnipeg.

Maple Leafs: Continue a three-game homestand the same night against the Dallas Stars.

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Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Dennis Hildeby (35) looks on as Maple Leafs' Chris Tanev, left, and Vancouver Canucks' J.T. Miller (9) battle for the rebound during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Teddy Blueger (53) passes the puck as Toronto Maple Leafs' Auston Matthews, right, defends on during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (centre) celebrates with Kiefer Sherwood (44) and Danton Heinen (20) after defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs in NHL hockey action in Toronto on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

Toronto Maple Leafs' Matthew Knies (23) controls a bouncing puck as Vancouver Canucks' Tyler Myers (57) and goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) look on during second period NHL hockey action in Toronto on Saturday, January 11, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) makes a save against the Toronto Maple Leafs during second period NHL hockey action in Toronto on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Shreyas Iyer was provisionally named in India’s squad on Saturday for the home one-day international series against New Zealand starting Jan. 11.

India will host the Black Caps in a white-ball engagement — three ODIs and five T20s — in the build-up to the 2026 T20 World Cup.

Iyer returns to the international fold after sustaining a spleen injury during an ODI against Australia in Sydney last October.

His selection is subject to fitness clearance from BCCI’s medical team and he will return as India’s vice-captain for the three-match series.

Skipper Shubman Gill also returns, after he missed the ODI series against South Africa in December. He had a neck spasm in the test series earlier, and subsequently played in the T20s against the Proteas.

Ruturaj Gaikwad and Tilak Verma missed out. Gaikwad had scored a maiden ODI hundred against South Africa in Visakhapatnam.

Rishabh Pant is retained as second keeper-batter behind Lokesh Rahul, who had stood in as captain against the Proteas.

Star batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma had both participated in the domestic List A tournament — Vijay Hazare Trophy — and return to the international stage for the ODIs.

All-rounder Hardik Pandya is fit, but not sufficiently enough to bowl 10 overs in an ODI. Thus, he has been rested further ahead of the 2026 T20 World Cup (in India and Sri Lanka) starting Feb. 7. Nitish Kumar Reddy is included in the squad.

Pacer Mohammed Siraj returns to lead the bowling lineup with Jasprit Bumrah rested again. Siraj had missed the South Africa series because of workload management.

The three ODIs will be played in Vadodara (Jan. 11), Rajkot (Jan. 14) and Indore (Jan. 18), with the five-match T20 series starting Jan. 21.

Squad: Shubman Gill (captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal.

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FILE - Captain of Punjab Kings Shreyas Iyer addresses a news conference on the eve of the final match of Indian Premier League at Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)