Jack Skille, Jayson Megna power Canucks to win

TAMPA -- Jack Skille and Jayson Megna each scored two goals to help lift the Vancouver Canucks to a 5-1 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena on Thursday.
Erik Gudbranson also scored a goal for the Canucks (12-13-2), who are 1-1-0 on their five-game road trip. Ryan Miller made 38 saves before leaving with 6:02 remaining in the third period. He was replaced by Jacob Markstrom, who made two saves.

Canucks coach Willie Desjardins said Miller left with a lower-body injury but nothing that he felt was too serious.
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"He felt sore, he kind of twisted it," Desjardins said. "He didn't feel quite right so we took him out as a precaution. He was good though. He deserved to be first star."
Jonathan Drouin scored for the Lightning (14-12-2), who are 1-5-1 in their past seven games. Ben Bishop made 16 saves before being pulled for Andrei Vasilevskiy at the start of the third period.
"We needed to respond better when we got down a goal and you earn your breaks," Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman said. "Right now we're trying hard, we're battling hard but we're not getting the right bounces."
Megna's first goal came at 6:01 of the second period and gave Vancouver a 3-0 lead. Megna was able to get position in front of the net and redirected a slap shot from defenseman Alex Biega past Bishop's glove.
Drouin scored at 11:46 to make it 3-1. Valtteri Filppula fired a shot off Miller's mask and Drouin came in with the follow-up.
Megna made it 4-1 with one second remaining in the second period when he scored off a 2-on-1 break.
"[Megna] has got lots of speed and he's good defensively, too," Desjardins said. "And he had 25 people at the game, so what a great time for him to get a couple."
Skille scored his first goal of the season to give the Canucks a 1-0 lead at 3:50 of the first period when he beat Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov into the zone and to the right circle, fought off a check and went top shelf on Bishop.
Gudbranson scored his first goal of the season to make it 2-0 at 9:03. After gaining the puck off a turnover, Gudbranson's slap shot from inside the blue line hit the back boards and Bishop tried to smother it but knocked it in with his glove hand.
Skille scored his second goal of the game at 13:58 of the third period when he beat Vasilevskiy with a slap shot from the point.

Goal of the game

Gudbranson said even though his goal came on a lucky play he has had some bad luck. "I've put some good pucks on net that have either been tipped or hit the goalie's knob or hit the goalie and he didn't even see it," he said. "That was a lucky play but it was a lot of work put behind that."

Save of the game

Miller robbed Lightning forward Brian Boyle with a sprawling, sliding save during a power play at 8:44 of the third period. Boyle appeared to have an open net but Miller recovered just in time.

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Unsung performance of the game

Canucks center Markus Granlund forced a turnover at the red line and sent a pass to Daniel Sedin to start the 2-on-1 that led to Megna's second goal.

Highlight of the game

Skille's first goal started with a great outlet pass from Gudbranson and a strong individual effort to control the puck with Kucherov bearing down on him. "Good heads-up play by [Gudbranson]," Skille said. "I just took it to the net and was fortunate that it went in."

They said it

"We did a lot of good things, we tracked back hard. That's a transition team that makes a lot of skilled plays and we made it tough on them. They like that east-west [play] and the key to breaking that up is backchecking." -- Canucks defenseman Erik Gudbranson
"Well, first of all, I don't even remember losing games by four goals, ever. Maybe one a year. We're losing them at once a week now. It comes down to defending. You look back at the end of the game and say, 'Oh, well, they had 41 shots and this was going on and this goalie made a big save, whatever.' We still gave up five. That doesn't matter. Even if we do get a couple of these to go in, so we lose 5-3. You still lose. The harder guys are trying to score, it's just the more it's hurting." -- Lightning coach Jon Cooper

Need to know

Kucherov was -4 for the first time in his career. … Megna, Skille and Gudbranson combined for one goal and four assists this season before Thursday's game.

What's next

Canucks: At the Florida Panthers on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; SN, FS-F, NHL.TV)
Lightning: Hosts the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; SUN, ROOT, NHL.TV)