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TAMPA, Fla. -- Ryan Miller gave the Vancouver Canucks a late scare in a one-sided win over Tampa Bay.Miller made 38 saves before leaving with six minutes left in the third period with a lower-body injury. Jayson Megna and Jack Skille both had two goals and the Canucks beat the Lightning 5-1 on Thursday night.He felt sore, he kind of twisted it when he was on the ice, Vancouver coach Willie Desjardins said of Miller. He just didnt feel quite right, so we just took him out for precaution. I dont think its anything (serious).Miller skated to the bench and then went to the locker room, and was replaced by Jacob Markstrom, who stopped two shots.Erik Gudbranson also scored for the Canucks, who are 1-1 on a five-game road trip.Tampa Bay, in a 1-5-1 slide, got a goal from Jonathan Drouin. Nikita Kucherov, Alex Killorn and Jason Garrison all were minus-4.First of all, I dont remember losing games by four goals, maybe one a year, Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. Were losing them about once a week now. It comes down to defending.Tampa Bay has lost by four or more goals four times this season.Megna had a redirection goal early in the second and then put the Canucks up 4-1 during a 2-on-1 with 1 second left in the period. The forward, who had 25 family and friends in attendance, entered with one goal in 10 games this season, and seven over 64 career games.Im sure theyre pretty excited, Megna said. Its definitely a cool experience to get to play in front of so many people. Its a pretty special night.After Skille opened the scoring 3:50 into the game on his first goal in 24 games, Gudbranson stopped a 34-game goal drought to make it 2-0 at 9:03.Gudbransons shot from the slot went off the end boards and ended up in the crease where Tampa Bay goalie Ben Bishop knocked the puck into the net with his glove.Obviously, the second ones a lucky one and then we really went down, Cooper said.It was just eighth time the Canucks have scored first and sixth time Vancouver has been ahead after the first period in 27 games this season.Bishop was pulled after allowing four goals on 20 shots through two periods. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped nine of the 10 shots he faced in the third., giving up Skilles second of the game with 6:02 remaining.Miller made several strong saves, including a post-to-post stop on Brian Boyle during a Tampa Bay power play in the third.Game notesCanucks D Philip Larsen, taken off the ice on a stretcher and driven to a hospital for observation following a check by New Jerseys Taylor Hall on Tuesday night, was medically cleared to return to Vancouver on Wednesday. ... Vancouver RW Jannik Hansen missed his 15th consecutive game due to injury but could soon return. ... Drouin (one game) and Garrison (two games) both returned from injuries. ... Tampa Bay D Luke Witkowsk, recalled from Syracuse of the AHL, assisted on Drouins goal for his first NHL point. ... 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"Jeff is a hard worker who was an important special-teams contributor for us last season," said Stamps GM John Hufnagel. Air Max 97 Nz Wholesale . All of the scoring came in the final 20:04. Lucic scored on a power play at 15:46 of the third period, when he tipped a shot over Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen for a 3-1 lead.Because they were facing the prospect of playing four games in five nights, the Memphis Grizzlies took one for the team Tuesday night, resting veterans Mike Conley and Marc Gasol in a 36-point road loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.The winless New Orleans Pelicans would love to experience anything close to that luxury as they dropped to 0-4 with an ugly 117-113 home loss Tuesday to the Milwaukee Bucks.So when the Pelicans face the 2-2 Grizzlies on Wednesday night in Memphis, they will be a facing a relatively rested Memphis team on the second night of a back-to-back.The only thing Pelicans forward Anthony Davis knows is that as the losses mount, his team is in danger of falling out of playoff contention less than two weeks into the season.Davis is averaging 37 points and 13 rebounds a game, and yet the Pelicans have lost four straight because they have allowed 111 points a game.Its defense where weve got to become better, and that starts with communication, Davis said.Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry, who never seems to get flustered, saw his temperature rise in the wake of his teams poor defensive outing against the Bucks. He called his players lack of communication the perfect storm.Weve got a lot of work that we need to do, Gentry said. Weve got to get better defensively. We have to (get a win). Its on us. Its not on anybody but us. Weve got to do the job. Weve got enough guys to line up and play; then you got to win some games.The Grizzliess have won the last five against the Pelicans, including four consecutive home games.ddddddddddddIn the most recent meeting, guard Lance Stephenson, who appeared in 26 games for Memphis last season, scored a career-high 33 points in a 121-114 overtime victory over New Orleans. Stephenson is now a member of the Pelicans.First-year Memphis coach David Fizdale said he decided to rest Conley, his veteran point guard, and Gasol because of the heavy stretch of games -- the Grizzlies only such stretch of the season.Conley and Gasol both dressed but did not play. They watched as Memphis fell behind by 40 points at one point to the Timberwolves. The Grizzlies had entered the game making 43.7 percent of their 3-point attempts but managed just 4 of 24 against Minnesota.Memphis shot just 36.5 percent overall and committed 22 turnovers. Wade Baldwin, a combo guard, started and committed five turnovers against just one assist. He missed all four of his 3-point shots. The Grizzlies came in Tuesdays game averaging only 13 turnovers.That killed us, Fizdale said of the turnovers. The bottom line is youre on another teams court and you have to take care of the ball to have any chances of winning. Everything that could go wrong went wrong offensively for us. And then it carried over to our defense. They just ran us out of the gym. ' ' '