VANCOUVER — Nikita Kucherov and Cedric Paquette each had a goal and an assist, and the Tampa Bay Lightning extended their point streak to 10 games with a 5-2 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena on Tuesday.
Adam Erne, Steven Stamkos and Ondrej Palat scored, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves for the Lightning (26-7-2), who are 9-0-1 in their past 10 games.
Tyler Motte and Christopher Tanev scored, and Anders Nilsson made 32 saves for the Canucks (16-17-4), who lost in regulation for the first time in seven games (5-1-1).
Kucherov, playing his 400th NHL game, scored at 8:40 of the first period to give Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead and extend his point streak to six games. Shortly after killing a 53-second 5-on-3 power play for Vancouver, Brayden Point won an offensive-zone face-off back to Kucherov for a quick, glove-side wrist shot through a screen. He has eight points (three goals, five assists) during his streak.
Video: TBL@VAN: Kucherov strikes off the face-off
Motte tied it 1-1 by redirecting a backdoor pass from defenseman Troy Stecher at 9:17, but Paquette put the Lightning ahead 2-1 at 11:07 with a one-timer after a spinning cross-ice pass off the rush from rookie Danick Martel, who got his first NHL point with the assist.
Erne extended Tampa Bay’s lead to 3-1 at 8:37 of the second period by redirecting Paquette’s long shot between Nilsson’s legs.
Tanev made it 3-2 at 5:46 of the third period with a point shot through traffic that went under Vasilevskiy’s arm and trickled over the goal line.
Stamkos scored on a 2-on-1 with 2:38 remaining to make it 4-2, and Palat scored into an empty net with 1:43 left for the 5-2 final score.
Stecher left the game with 5:34 left in the second period after a hit by Martel.
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