Henrik Sedin set up three goals and Roberto Luongo made 39 saves as the Vancouver Canucks prevailed in a 4-3 game over the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night.

Sedin now has 41 assists, two fewer than NHL leader Joe Thornton of the San Jose Sharks.

"I got two great scorers on the line," Sedin said after extending his points streak to six games. "We work off each other really good."

Daniel Sedin had a goal and assist, with Mason Raymond, Alex Burrows and Ryan Kesler also scoring for Vancouver (18-14). The Canucks went 3-for-5 on the power play.

The Canucks scored less than two minutes into the game and never trailed, although the Wild on three occasions were one shot away from tying the score.

Martin Havlat scored with 66 seconds left for the Wild, and they poured it on during the next shift but were unable to score in a scramble in front of Luongo.

"We knew they weren't going to give up and it was good to get another one on the power play," Kesler said. "They kept fighting right to the end."

Luongo kept his team ahead at all times despite a second period in which Minnesota outshot the Canucks 18-8.

Vancouver also won despite winning just over 30 per cent of the game's faceoffs.

The Canucks have won the first two of an eight-game homestand. They're back at GM Place on Monday against the Los Angeles Kings.

Havlat had two assists to go with his late goal. Low-scoring defencemen Shane Hnidy and Greg Zanon also found the mark for Minnesota (15-14-3), which was coming off Friday night's 2-1 overtime win in Calgary.

"We didn't start the way we wanted to but we were still in the game," Havlat said. "After the first, I think we were playing much better. At the end, I don't think we had enough power after playing last night but that's no excuse."

Kyle Brodziak drew two assists, and Wild backup netminder Josh Harding finished with 25 stops.

Vancouver has outscored Minnesota 11-5 in winning the first three meetings of the season. All but two of the goals were scored in the first period.

The Canucks came out with jump, forcing an early Wild penalty. Daniel Sedin then worked a give-and-go with his twin brother and flipped a shot in the top corner past Harding at the 1:44 mark.

Vancouver was up by two less than five minutes later when Henrik Sedin's backhand pass set up Raymond's 11th of the season.

The teams traded chances on a sequence midway through the period. Kesler couldn't connect on a short-handed chance, while Luongo made a flashy glove save on Antti Miettinen.

The Wild got on the board when Havlat outwaited the Canucks defence and set up Hnidy, trailing on the play. The veteran defenceman scored his first in a Minnesota uniform at 13:55.

The visitors nearly tied it on the next shift when Eric Belanger drove to the net on Luongo.

The Canucks regained the two-goal cushion on a play where the Wild had two cracks to clear the puck from their end but couldn't get it done. Burrows notched his 10th on a wrister past Harding.

It appeared that would be the score heading into the first intermission but Zanon ended a scoring chance he started by taking advantage of a Luongo bobble with just five seconds to go.

The weak goal may have spurred the competitive Canucks goalie on because in the second, he withstood a peppering from the Wild. Andrew Brunette and Mikko Koivu each had multiple shots on net, with Luongo again denying Miettinen, with a pad save.

Minnesota kept pressing in the third but Havlat's high-sticking penalty on Canucks forward Jannik Hansen was a turning point.

Steve Bernier put his big body in front of Harding, helping Kesler get his seventh of the season for some much needed insurance at the 6:44 mark.

Havlat dazzled for his fourth of the season to bring the Wild within striking distance, but Miettinen was stopped yet again by Luongo.