Huberdeau Lifts Panthers Over Canucks 3-2 in SO Jonathan Huberdeau scored the only goal in a shootout to lift the Florida Panthers over the slumping Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Tuesday night. Shawn Matthias and Brad Boyes had the goals for Florida (6-12-4), which got 27 saves from Tim Thomas. Jannek Hansen and Chris Higgins scored in regulation for Vancouver (11-8-4). Roberto Luongo finished with 34 saves through regulation and overtime as the Canucks lost their fifth straight. Vancouver has six goals during the five-game slide. The Canucks killed off a 2-minute penalty in overtime, with Luongo making a huge pad stop on Huberdeau. Vancouver then took control in the final minute of the extra period, but couldn't find a way to beat Thomas. The 39-year-old goalie, who led the Boston Bruins to the 2011 Stanley Cup in a seven-game victory over Vancouver, had not given up a goal at Rogers Arena since Game 5 of the final. Playing his second game after a long absence with a lower-body injury, Hansen jumped on a bad clearing attempt from Panthers forward Tomas Fleischmann and wired a shot past Thomas for his third goal of the season at 2:35 of the third period to snap a 1-all tie. After the teams exchanged chances, Matthias tied it for the Panthers by ripping his third of the season past Luongo from the slot at 8:34. Down 1-0 after a lackluster first period, the Canucks came out with some renewed intensity in the second and were rewarded when Higgins beat Thomas through a maze of legs for his seventh goal of the season at 3:26. Thomas, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP with Boston in 2011, then made a big stop on Alexandre Burrows before Daniel Sedin sent a shot from the right circle just wide. Luongo didn't have much to do in a second period that lost steam after Vancouver's initial surge, but did make a good save on streaking forward Nick Bjugstad with under 2 minutes to go. Florida opened the scoring at 3:43 of the first period against the NHL's No. 1 penalty killing unit. With Canucks forward Jannik Hansen off for goalie interference, Aleksander Barkov's shot off the post bounced right to Boyes, who beat a down-and-out Luongo for his eighth of the season. That goal seemed to stun the Canucks, who looked like a team that thought it was going to have an easy night against the second-worst team in the Eastern Conference. Vancouver's 26th-ranked power play went to work midway through the period, but the Panthers had the best chance when Luongo was forced to make a big save on Marcel Goc's breakaway. Burrows, yet to score in 11 games this season, hit the post on a Florida power play with about 5 minutes to go in the period.