With 6-goal barrage, Canucks get rare road win vs. Lightning
Vancouver's Kiefer Sherwood, Linus Karlsson and Drew O'Connor scored in a 100-second span in the third period as the visiting Canucks scored six unanswered goals in a 6-2 rally past the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday.
Trailing 2-1 and being outshot significantly, Vancouver saw Sherwood's power-play goal at 4:11 knot the match. Karlsson scored 43 seconds later, then O'Connor made it 4-2 at 5:51.
Back after a one-game absence, captain Quinn Hughes dished the final of his career high-tying four assists to Mackenzie MacEachern for his first goal of the season in the five-goal third.
Jake DeBrusk scored his seventh marker -- sixth via the power play -- and Marcus Pettersson hit an empty net as the Canucks won for the first time in four games (1-1-2). Elias Pettersson and Filip Hronek had two assists apiece. Goaltender Kevin Lankinen made 28 saves.
Vancouver won in Tampa for the first time since Oct. 11, 2018.
Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov's 365th career goal tied him with Martin St. Louis for third in franchise history. Jake Guentzel netted one, while Jonas Johansson stopped 12 shots.
The first period looked like it was going to end scoreless, but the Lightning finally broke through in the final minute when Kucherov connected on a wicked one-timer off Darren Raddysh's pass with 35 seconds left.
Tampa Bay dominated in the neutral and offensive zones, forcing turnovers and outshooting the Pacific Division club 13-1.
At 4:35 of the second, Guentzel matched Kucherov's team-high eight goals with his own as the club doubled its lead, but DeBrusk answered by finding a rebound in the low slot at 9:26 on Vancouver's second power play.
Each club had two power plays in the frame, and Vancouver generated more shots but still had a 19-7 deficit after 40 minutes and trailed 2-1.
The visitors stunned the Lightning with the three goals in 1:40 seconds for the 4-2 lead, but Charle-Edouard D'Astous scored nearly 13 minutes into the period to seemingly make it 4-3.
However, Vancouver challenged for an earlier high-stick infraction and the goal was disallowed to keep it a two-goal game.
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