Ducks send Canucks home with 2OT win

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Scott Niedermayer scored 4:30 into the second overtime Thursday night to lift the Anaheim Ducks into the Western Conference finals with a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.

Niedermayer’s quick wrist shot from the left point came after his brother Rob leveled Vancouver’s Jannik Hansen along the left boards. The puck squirted to Scott Niedermayer and he beat goalie Roberto Luongo low to the glove side on the Ducks’ 63rd shot of the game.

Luongo had kept the Canucks in it as they tried to stay alive in Game 5, and he finished with 56 saves.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere had 26 saves for Anaheim.

The Ducks, who lost to Edmonton in the conference finals last year, may have to wait for almost a week to find out their next opponent. Detroit and San Jose are tied 2-2 in the other Western Conference semifinal.

Alexandre Burrows scored on a rebound past Giguere to draw the Canucks even at 1 with 8:57 left in regulation.

Samuel Pahlsson scored his first goal of this postseason 14 seconds into the second period when he jumped on a loose puck and poked it past Luongo, who was on his knees inside the net after being pushed back by Travis Moen’s stick.

On Burrows’ tying goal, Brandon Reid intercepted Joe DiPenta’s clearing pass along the left boards and passed to Josh Green. Giguere stopped Green’s slap shot, but Burrows was there for the rebound.

The overtime was the sixth for the Canucks in this year’s playoffs, including winning in the fourth OT against Dallas in their first postseason game. Luongo made 72 saves in that 5-4 victory.