Brayden Point and Ryan McDonagh reached point milestones in leading the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 4-1 victory over the struggling Boston Bruins. The game featured the first-ever matchup between brothers Morgan and Conor Geekie.
Since beating the Lightning 4-1 on Jan 5., the Ducks have gone 1-3-1, scoring just 5 goals in total on their roadtrip. Jon Cooper confirmed that Ryan McDonagh will play tonight, a
Jake Guentzel, who won a Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh in 2017, had two assists to become the second player in Lightning history with at least 20 goals and 40 points in his first 40 games with the franchise. Guentzel signed a seven-year deal with the Lightning in the offseason.
Robby Fabbri, Troy Terry and Leo Carlsson score for the Ducks, who fall to 1-3-1 on their six-game trip when Guentzel scores the only goal for either team in the shootout to hand them a 4-3 defeat.
The Anaheim Ducks and Tampa Bay Lightning faced off for the second time in two weeks last night when they battled for 65 minutes plus a shootout at Amalie Arena in Tampa.
Under duress from Charlie Coyle, Victor Hedman lost the puck just inside his left point position and Poitras pounced on it, bursting up ice on a 2-on-1. He smartly waited out Nick Perbix’s belly-flop slide and made a pretty pass around the defenseman’s skates to Trent Frederic for a redirection at 4:24, Frederic’s seventh of the year.
Special teams and defensive responsibility served as the bedrock to the Tampa Bay Lightning's fine first half in the immediate post-Steven Stamkos era.
The Pittsburgh Penguins were defeated by the Tampa Bay Lightning, 5-2, on Saturday at PPG Paints Arena. It was the Penguins’ sixth loss in their past seven games (1-3-3). Goaltender Tristan Jarry unofficially stopped 13 of 16 shots as his record fell to 8-7-4.
Overtime NJD 3, TBL 2 3:10 Stefan Noesen (17) - Jesper Bratt - PP A 4-on-3 power play in overtime ended with the game-winning goal for the home team on Saturday, as forward Stefan Noesen scored in the slot to end the game.
Sidney Crosby moved up in the NHL record book and Bryan Rust ignited a four-goal outburst in the first period as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the visiting Edmonton Oilers 5-3 on Thursday. It was the Penguins' first win over the Oilers in more than five years.
Anthony Cirelli and Michael Eyssimont scored second-period goals as the host Tampa Bay Lightning beat Boston 4-1 on Thursday to extend the Bruins' season-worst losing streak to six games.
The Cam Atkinson experiment has not worked out with the Tampa Bay Lightning, and it's time for the front office to move on.