(Tampa) Nikita Kucherov scored twice and the Tampa Bay Lightning won 4-3 against the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night to end a three-game losing streak.
Nicholas Paul and Michael Eyssimont scored the other Lightning goals, and Jonas Johansson stopped 26 pucks.
Steven Stamkos had an assist after missing the last two games due to a lower body injury.
Thatcher Demko stopped 31 shots for the Canucks, and Brock Boeser, Tyler Myers and J. T. Miller scored.
Eyssimont gave the Lightning a 3-2 lead with 4:17 left in the second period. Kucherov doubled his team’s lead 1:09 later, from the right circle.
Kucherov and Stamkos each had six shots on net after two periods.
Boeser, who scored four goals in the Canucks’ season opener against the Edmonton Oilers, is the first player in the organization to score five goals in his first four games of the campaign since Alexander Mogilny in 1995 -96.
Elias Pettersson had two assists, for a total of seven so far this season. In the Canucks’ last 35 seasons, only Daniel Sedin (2014-15) and Henrik Sedin (2013-14) have had at least six assists in their first four games of the season.
