The Vancouver Canucks scored three times in 100 seconds early in the third period, en route to a 6-2 win over the host Tampa Bay Lightning in NHL action Sunday at Benchmark International Arena.
Mackenzie MacEachern (2), Kiefer Sherwood, Jake DeBrusk, Drew O’Connor and Marcus Pettersson scored for Vancouver (9-9-2), with captain Quinn Hughes adding four assists. Kevin Lankinen made 28 saves for the goaltending win.
Nikita Kucherov and Jake Guentzel scored for the Lightning (9-7-2). Jonas Johansson stopped 12 of 17 shots and absorbed the loss.
The Lightning carried the play through much of the first period, outshooting the Canucks 13-1.
Kucherov opened the scoring with 34 seconds left the frame, taking a long cross-ice pass from Darren Raddysh and rifling a shot past Lankinen from the bottom of the right offensive circle.
Guentzel made it 2-0 4:35 into the second, tipping in a point shot from Erik Cernak passed a screened Lankinen. Guentzel has 14 goals in 15 career games versus Vancouver.
DeBrusk cut the lead to 2-1 on the power play at 9:26 of the second. Forward Elias Pettersson made a nice move at the point to get a shot away and DeBrusk jammed home the rebound. He has seven goals on the season, six coming with the man advtantage.
In the third, the Canucks struck three times in 1:40 to put the game away.
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Sherwood tied it at 2-2 at 4:11, tipping in a pass from Brock Boeser in the slot for a power-play marker. Sherwood already has 12 goals this season. Just 43 seconds later, MacEachern backhanded a shot from the back of the right circle that found its way past Johansson. Linus Karlsson (celebrating his birthday on Sunday) reacted like he may have tipped the shot in, but it was credited to MacEachern for his first of the year.
O’Connor made it 4-2 at 5:51, when a Hughes point shot went off him in front for his fifth of the season.
Tampa Bay thought it had made it 4-3 at 12:16, when Charle-Edouard D’Astous beat Lankinen. But the Canucks successfully challenged that the play should have been blown dead due to a high stick.
MacEachern scored again at 13:52, deflecting in a point shot from Filip Hronek.
The Bolts pulled their goalie with four minutes to play, but were unable to score with the extra attacker.
With 3:03 left, Marcus Pettersson scored on a long shot for an empty-net goal, making the Canucks the final team in the league this year to score an empty-netter.
Vancouver visits the Florida Panthers on Monday (4 p.m.).
NOTES: Tyler Myers picked up an assist on the empty-netter, his 300th career assist and 400th career point… Hronek and Elias Pettersson had two assists each for Vancouver… The Canucks were 2-for-3 on the power play, while the Lightning were 0-for-2.