Four games occurred in the National Hockey League (NHL) on Wednesday night, but all of the headlines will focus on the game in Tampa Bay, which produced 10 goals.<\/p>\n
A wild seven-goal first period made the price of admission quite worth it for the fans at the Benchmark International Arena. There, the New York Rangers<\/a> ultimately prevailed 7-3<\/a> versus the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>.<\/p>\n Will Cuylle<\/a> opened the scoring 69 seconds in after Yanni Gourde<\/a> had put the Bolts in a man disadvantage situation. J.T. Miller<\/a> doubled the lead a few moments later.\u00a0<\/p>\n From there, the Lightning and Rangers traded goals for the remainder of the first period. By the time the intermission had come, Jake Guentzel<\/a>‘s goal two and half minutes before the frame’s completion made it 4-3 for the guests.<\/p>\n Perhaps the last two periods could be seen as a letdown in comparison to the excitement brought in the opening stanza. Vincent Trocheck<\/a> added a fifth for New York, before doubling his tally five minutes into the third. Cuylle followed suit with netting his second of the night to round out the scoring.<\/p>\n The Rangers go up to seventh spot in the Eastern Conference after that win, jumping ahead of the Lightning.<\/p>\n Overtime was required in Philadelphia, as the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> edged the Flyers<\/a> 2-1<\/a>. Evan Bouchard<\/a> gave the guests the lead just as the opening period was coming to an end. Matvey Michkov<\/a> tied things up for the hosts in the second to the home fans’ delight.<\/p>\n However, the Oilers, who reached the Stanley Cup final last year, pulled through in the extra frame. Jack Roslovic<\/a> got them the extra point with a winner a minute and change in. It was the second consecutive game that Edmonton won in overtime.<\/p>\n The Utah Mammoth<\/a> topped the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> 5-2 at home<\/a>, while the New Jersey Devils<\/a> battled past the\u00a0Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> in overtime, 4-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four games occurred in the National Hockey League (NHL) on Wednesday night, but all of the headlines will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-281327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}