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VANCOUVER -- The Tampa Bay Lightning didn't need much time to win in Vancouver in regulation for the first time in franchise history.
Nikita Kucherov scored the go-ahead goal on a power play with 2.6 seconds left in a wild second period to lift the Lightning to a 4-2 win against the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night.
Tampa Bay, which hadn't won in regulation in Vancouver in its 21-year history, scored three times in the final 4:33 of the second period, including goals 20 seconds apart by Valtteri Filppula and Tyler Johnson.
Alex Killorn added an insurance goal on a deflection 7:28 into the third as Tampa Bay snapped a two-game skid since the Christmas break.
After a sloppy, scoreless first period with plenty of broken plays, both offenses broke through in a wild second half of the second period, including a 34-second span that saw the teams combine for three goals.
Brad Richardson opened the scoring, putting Vancouver on top with 8:35 left in the period. Filppula and Johnson scored on consecutive shifts four minutes later to put the Lightning ahead, but Zac Dalpe scored his first with the Canucks 14 seconds after Johnson's goal to tie the game at 2-2.
Kucherov restored the lead for good after Vancouver forward Chris Higgins failed on a great chance to clear the zone. The Lightning quickly worked the puck across to Kucherov in the right faceoff dot, and the 20-year-old Russian rookie wired a slap shot over goalie Eddie Lack's glove, off the cross bar and in for his fourth goal in 17 games.
Ben Bishop, left off the U.S. team for the 2014 Sochi Olympics earlier in the day, finished with 28 saves and earned his 21st win for the Lightning. Filppula, who has 15 goals, and Killorn, who has 11, each also had an assist for Tampa Bay, which had won five straight before the holiday break, and was opening a four-game Canadian road trip, the start of a stretch that includes just one game at home over eight games.
Lack made 29 saves in his third straight start since Roberto Luongo was hurt in a Dec. 22 game against the Winnipeg Jets, but the Canucks lost in regulation for the second time in 14 games (10-2-2).
Richardson opened the scoring with his eighth goal shortly after the Canucks' top-ranked penalty kill held the Tampa Bay power play without a shot on a chance midway through the second period. The play started with defenseman Dan Hamhuis forcing a neutral-zone turnover with an open-ice hit on Lightning forward Richard Panik.
The Lightning returned the favor four minutes later, with Filppula tying it on a 3-on-2 shot from the slot through traffic shortly after killing off a Canucks power play, and Johnson put Tampa Bay ahead by finishing off a pretty 2-on-1 pass from Ondrej Palat on the next shift.
Dalpe tied it again after a fourth-line dump-in that several Lightning players appeared to think was icing. Instead, it turned into a 2-on-1 down low, with Dale Weise feeding across to Dalpe for a tap-in.
But the Canucks, who had killed 35 of 37 penalties, couldn't survive a late hooking call against Yannick Weber, and the Lightning ended a skid in Vancouver that included nine regulation losses, two ties and just one overtime win in 12 all-time visits.
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