VANCOUVER – Brock Boeser scored the go-ahead goal on a partial breakaway at 14:15 of the third period, and the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 at Rogers Arena on Saturday.

Boeser knocked down a cross-ice stretch pass from Kiefer Sherwood at the Columbus blue line and fired a wrist shot from inside the right face-off dot that bounced off the glove and then the shoulder of goalie Elvis Merzlikins before going into the net.

Drew O’Connor had a goal and assist, and Kevin Lankinen made 29 saves for the Canucks (8-8-0), who have alternated wins and losses for their past eight games.

Kirill Marchenko scored twice and had an assist, and Dmitri Voronkov had a goal and two assists for the Blue Jackets (7-7-0), who have lost the first three games of a five-game road tri

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