Burns: 3 Things from getting swept by the Canucks

Tampa Bay entered Friday's game having won four straight in Vancouver dating back to the 2010-11 season, but the Lightning's magic in British Columbia ran out in a 4-2 loss to the Canucks.
Another fluky bounce proved to be the Bolts' undoing. Bo Horvat capitalized on an unkind deflection and subsequent juicy rebound for the power play game-winner less than four minutes after Cory Conacher scored his first goal since 2014 to tie it up.

The Lightning have a quick turnaround to try to get back in the win column; the Bolts play the second half of a back-to-back set Saturday against Edmonton and NHL scoring leader Connor McDavid.
Where did the game go south for the Bolts Friday night? We'll recap a tough loss in 3 Things from Vancouver.

1. WEIRD DEFLECTION VICTIMIZES BOLTS…AGAIN
Luck hasn't been kind to the Tampa Bay Lightning so far this season.
The Bolts have been stung by a number of weird bounces where the end result has the puck in the back of their net. There was the ricochet off the stanchion at the AMALIE Arena Zamboni tunnel early in the season that ping ponged into the net before Ben Bishop could react. Bishop fell victim to another fluky goal in the first meeting with Vancouver when a puck off the back wall caromed into the crease, and Bishop accidentally knocked it into the goal while attempting to cover it.
On Friday, it was Andrei Vasilevskiy's turn to fall victim to bad luck.
With the score tied 2-2 and the Lightning controlling the third period, Alex Killorn was whistled for holding, putting the Bolts on the penalty kill. Vancouver's Markus Granlund skated up the ice on the power play and tried to dump the puck into the zone off the glass.
Instead, Granlund's dump deflected off the stick of Loui Eriksson at the blue line and right on goal, forcing Vasilevskiy to make a quick reaction save. The rebound bounced directly in front to Bo Horvat, who turned the gift into the game-winner.
The Lightning never recovered.
"It's tough," Tampa Bay head coach Jon Cooper said. "Actually, it was a nice save Vasy made just to keep it from going in the net. It goes right to their guy. It looked like it was a rolling puck. He puts it - it was an unreal shot by him - but he was Johnny on the spot on a fluky play. That was the difference. Too bad."

2. GOOD START…DECENT FINISH…NOT-SO-GOOD MIDDLE
Tampa Bay scored the opening goal for the first time in five games when Victor Hedman netted his sixth of the season at 6:31 of the first period. The Lightning built on that early goal, controlling play throughout most of the first period and limiting Vancouver's scoring chances to nearly zero.
But Tampa Bay came out flat in the second period, and the Canucks took advantage, scoring twice to wrestle the lead away from the Bolts.
On Vancouver's first goal, the Lightning couldn't clear the zone and Brandon Sutter made them pay, getting open in the slot and firing past Vasilevskiy on a one-timer.
Luca Sbisa roofed a rebound on a shot from the point a little more than 10 minutes later for the go-ahead goal.
"I thought the first period was a good period," Bolts defenseman Anton Stralman said. "We played well. We played within our structure. And then the second period I thought we stopped doing the right things. We took the easy way out a little bit, and they hurt us."
The Bolts got back to a more desperate playing style in the third but had to play from behind for the majority of the period.
"It's too bad because it was a pretty solid effort by a depleted group," Cooper said. "You feel for the guys. It's a self-inflicted loss is what it is. Bad turnovers end up in our net."

3. LATE PENALTY LEADS TO LOSS
The Lightning have been one of the more penalized teams in the NHL this season, ranking fourth in the league for penalty minutes per game at 11:48.
Tampa Bay's penalty kill, once a major strength for the team, is hemorrhaging goals currently due to the number of penalties the Bolts have taken on a nightly basis.
The Lightning were whistled for just two penalties Friday night, but Killorn's hooking call at 6:08 of the third period, just over two minutes after Cory Conacher tied the score 2-2, killed the momentum the Bolts had been building and proved to be their undoing.
"Just a self-inflicted loss is what it is," Cooper said. "Marginal call at best, 200 feet from our net, and they get an unreal break."
The Lightning didn't take many penalties Friday.
But the ones they did take proved to be costly.
"We can sit here and argue if that's a penalty or not," Cooper said. It's a 2-2 game. That's a tough one to call. But we've got to kill it off, and we put ourselves down 5-on-4 and we've had some trouble (killing penalties). You can't blame the PK for that goal, but we were short. I think if we're 5-on-5, that situation doesn't happen."