{"id":936978,"date":"2026-10-17T23:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936978\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T23:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:50:22","slug":"kucherov-tallies-2-as-lightning-rally-to-double-vancouver-canucks-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936978\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucherov tallies 2 as Lightning rally to double Vancouver Canucks 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Kucherov tallies 2 as Lightning rally to double Vancouver Canucks 4-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 3:44 pm Saturday, October 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Philip Wolf\/Parksville Qualicum News\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>Jake Guentzel\u2019s goal early in the third period stood up as the winner, helping the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 4-2 win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Saturday afternoon at  Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Kucherov (2) and Pontus Holmberg had the other goals for the Lightning (6-2-0), with Dennis Hildeby making 12 saves to earn the win in goal.<\/p>\n<p>Linus Karlsson and centre Elias Pettersson replied for the Canucks (2-7-1), who finished winless on a six-game road swing. Kevin Lankinen took the loss for Vancouver, stopping 31 of 35 shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks opened the scoring at 4:28 of the first period. Just seconds after Kucherov came out of the penalty box, Karlsson ripped a blast from the top of the right offensive faceoff circle past Hildeby for his second goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Shots on goal after one period favoured the Lightning, 11-7.<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson gave Vancouver a 2-0 lead 4:35 into the second period, firing home a sharp-angle shot to the left of Hildeby. Pettersson now has three goals on the year. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">EP40, dangerous from every angle. \ud83d\udcd0 https:\/\/t.co\/8ofjyeqIq4<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Canucks\/status\/2111565562644189405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kucherov then scored a pair of goals to pull the Bolts even after two periods. On the power play at 6:35, he slotted home a rebound of his own shot from the right circle. Then at 11:23, this time from the left circle, Brayden Point won a draw right back to Kucherov, who zipped a laser past Lankinen for his third of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay held a 26-12 shots on goal advantage after 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning moved ahead just 2:04 into the third period, when Guentzel\u2019s long-range shot deflected off a Vancouver stick in front and past Lankinen. Guentzel has four goals on the season and 16 in 17 games against the Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>Holmberg made it 4-2 with 4:03 to play, grabbing a loose puck off a faceoff and beating Lankinen for his second of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks pulled Lankinen in favour of an extra attacker with more than three minutes to play but were unable to draw any closer.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver returns to action Tuesday when they host the Carolina Hurricanes (7 p.m.) at Rogers Arena.<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: Vancouver\u2019s Jake DeBrusk celebrated his 30th birthday on Saturday\u2026 Vancouver is 22-22-2-2 all-time against Tampa Bay\u2026 The Canucks played without Thatcher Demko (hip) and Rossi (sick)\u2026 Vancouver was 1-for-2 on the power play, while the Bolts scored on their only chance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kucherov tallies 2 as Lightning rally to double Vancouver Canucks 4-2 Published 3:44 pm Saturday, October 17, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[903,49,48,55],"class_list":["post-936978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}