Point, Hagel each has goal, assist in Lightning win against Canucks
Cirelli also gets 2 points, Kucherov scores; Vancouver still searching for 1st win
Canucks at Lightning | Recap
TAMPA — Brayden Point, Brandon Hagel and Anthony Cirelli each had a goal and an assist for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 4-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Amalie Arena on Tuesday.
Nikita Kucherov scored, and Nicholas Paul had two assists for the Lightning (2-0-0) in their home opener. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 26 saves.
Conor Garland scored for the Canucks (0-1-2). Arturs Silovs made 24 saves.
Kucherov gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 3:55 of the first period, a snap shot off from the right circle off a cross-ice pass from Darren Raddysh. It was the fourth goal of the season for Kucherov, who scored a natural hat trick and had an assist in a 4-1 win at the Carolina Hurricanes in the Lightning’s season opener on Friday.
Point extended it to 2-0 at 7:43 of the second period with a one-timer off a drop pass from Jake Guentzel.
Cirelli scored just 39 seconds into the third period to make it 3-0 when he buried it past Silovs from in front of the net.
Garland cut it to 3-1 with a power-play goal at 4:14 when he stuffed the puck in from the goal line off a shot from Brock Boeser.
Hagel scored an empty-net goal at 18:14 for the 4-1 final.