The Vancouver Canucks ended their longest home losing streak of the season by taking care of a last-place team and another one visits Sunday.

The Minnesota Wild, though, have been successful of late and will try to keep their momentum going in the first of three matchups with the Canucks in 16 days.

Vancouver (27-17-3) snapped a three-game slide on its own ice and avoided dropping its third in a row overall with a 5-2 win over Buffalo on Friday. Ryan Miller made 20 saves against his former team, and five different players scored for the Canucks, who totaled three goals in their prior three games.

Vancouver scored twice on the power play - matching its total in 28 attempts over the last nine games - but gave up two goals while short-handed after killing off 32 of its prior 35 penalties.

"It was a big win for us and a lot of guys scored, which can help us in other parts of our game, but I don't think we were pleased with the game overall," forward Henrik Sedin said.

The Canucks will try for a more complete performance against the cellar dwellers in the Central Division, but Minnesota (22-20-6) is 4-1-1 in its last six and 3-0-1 in its past four road games. The Wild have a chance to complete a three-game sweep of Western Canada, and they're three points behind Colorado and Dallas in the division.

Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves in a 1-0 win over Calgary on Thursday, his second shutout in six games with Minnesota after being acquired from Arizona on Jan. 14.

Zach Parise scored the lone goal, giving him six in his last six games.

"I was happy with the way my game was in Arizona so I wanted to really concentrate on sticking with the same things I was doing there that was helping me be successful there," said Dubnyk, 4-1-0 with a 1.66 goals-against average for the Wild.

While with the Coyotes, Dubnyk stopped 35 shots in a 5-0 win in Vancouver on Nov. 14 and gave up three goals on 29 shots in relief in a 7-1 drubbing at Rogers Arena on Dec. 22.

The Wild will face their former Northwest Division rivals three times in the next eight games and return to Vancouver to finish that stretch on Feb. 16.

"Certainly, we'll have the opportunity to get very familiar with each other again," coach Mike Yeo said. "New coach for them but a lot of the same players and a lot of the same rivalry still exists. I think they're having a great season. We're looking forward to the challenge."

If it's unknown if Yeo will have star defenseman Ryan Suter available for the first meeting this season with Vancouver. Suter, who reportedly has a lower-body injury, did not practice Saturday in Vancouver, and Justin Fontaine is out due to a groin injury suffered in Thursday's victory.

Fontaine had the shootout winner in Minnesota's most recent visit to the Canucks, a 2-1 victory Feb. 28. The Wild have won their last two games there after losing 11 in a row.

Vancouver snapped a four-game overall skid in the series with a 5-2 win in Minnesota on March 26.

Parise has four goals and one assist in his last five matchups with Vancouver, and Charlie Coyle has three goals in his past four.