VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Darcy Tucker and defenseman Jyrki Lumme ended 17-game scoring droughts Tuesday night as the undermanned Toronto Maple Leafs rallied from a two-goal deficit for a 5-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.
Already without injured regulars Mats Sundin, Alexander Mogilny and Mikael Renberg, Toronto dressed one player below the maximum when defenseman Karel Pilar was a late scratch due to the flu.
During the game, the Maple Leafs lost center Nik Antropov to a left wrist injury and defenseman Ric Jackman to a left leg injury, although Jackman returned in the third period.
But coping with injuries is nothing new for Toronto, which overcame the loss of several key players last spring in getting within two wins of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Tucker started the Maple Leafs' comeback in this one midway through the second period with a shorthanded goal, his first since Nov. 23.
Paul Healey tied it at 3-3 with 6:11 to go in the period, backhanding a rebound of Tom Fitzgerald's shot under the crossbar for his third goal of the season.
Also goalless since Nov. 23, Lumme gave Toronto its first lead of the night with a power-play goal at 6:29 of the third. Moments after Vancouver's Matt Cooke flubbed a shorthanded breakaway, Lumme charged down the left side from the point, got a cross-ice pass from Robert Reichel and put a wrist shot from low in the faceoff circle past goaltender Dan Cloutier.
Reichel added an empty-net goal with two seconds left and Ed Belfour stopped five breakaways among 22 saves as the Leafs improved to 2
0-1 on a four-game road trip.
Todd Bertuzzi, Markus Naslund and defenseman Brent Sopel scored on the power play for the Canucks, who had a four-game home unbeaten streak stopped.
