The Tampa Bay Lightning extended their winning streak to four games with a 5-4 shootout victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay took a 3-0 lead in the second period before Montreal got a goal early in the third period, but Pontus Holmberg\u2019s third goal in as many games restored the three-goal lead 34 seconds later.<\/p>\n
Montreal then scored three goals in the third period to tie the game, but Gage Goncalves and Brayden Point were the lone scorers in the shootout to win the game.<\/p>\n
Kucherov scored two goals to co-lead the Lightning on offense alongside Oliver Bjorkstrand and Goncalves, each with two assists.<\/p>\n
Goalie Jonas Johansson made 32 saves for his eighth win of the season.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is now 22-13-3 this season and visits the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
None.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: MTL 9, TBL 3<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
TBL 1, MTL 0<\/p>\n
2:28 Nikita Kucherov (16) – Gage Goncalves<\/p>\n
A broken stick in the Lightning defensive zone led to a breakaway for Nikita Kucherov, which he ended with a snap shot into the bottom left corner of the net for 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
TBL 2, MTL 0<\/p>\n
12:11 Kucherov (17) – Brayden Point, Goncalves<\/p>\n
A Lightning 2-on-1 rush chance missed the net, but Kucherov\u2019s second goal of the period followed up the rush and buried the second chance in front of the net to double Tampa Bay\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, MTL 0<\/p>\n
14:49 Nick Paul (4) – Oliver Bjorkstrand, Maxim Groshev<\/p>\n
A rebound goal for Nick Paul extended the Lightning lead with the help of defenseman Maxim Groshev\u2019s first NHL point.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 13, MTL 7<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
TBL 3, MTL 1<\/p>\n
1:04 Ivan Demidov (10) – Juraj Slafkovsky, Noah Dobson<\/p>\n
A chance at the left post snuck into the bottom right corner for Montreal in the opening minutes of the third period to get the visitors on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
TBL 4, MTL 1<\/p>\n
1:40 Pontus Holmberg (6) – Bjorkstrand, Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous<\/p>\n
Pontus Holmberg restored the three-goal lead only 34 seconds after Montreal got on the board by deflecting an Oliver Bjorkstrand shot.<\/p>\n
TBL 4, MTL 2<\/p>\n
9:16 Juraj Slafkovsky (12) – Oliver Kapanen<\/p>\n
The Canadiens scored their second goal of the period after a Lightning turnover burying a shot from the top of the circles.<\/p>\n
TBL 4, MTL 3<\/p>\n
12:17 Noah Dobson (7) – Cole Caufield, Mike Matheson<\/p>\n
A point shot for Noah Dobson made it a one-goal game.<\/p>\n
TBL 4, MTL 4<\/p>\n
19:56 Slafkovsky (13) – Demidov, Lane Hutson<\/p>\n
The Canadiens tied the game with 3.8 seconds remaining at 6-on-5.<\/p>\n
Overtime<\/p>\n
None.<\/p>\n
Total shots: MTL 36, TBL 22<\/p>\n
Shootout<\/p>\n
Goncalves<\/p>\n
Point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning extended their winning streak to four games with a 5-4 shootout victory over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-377395","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\/377395","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=377395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}