win<\/a> over the Philadelphia Flyers at XFinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s such a skilled player and he sees the game so well,\u201d Point said of Goncalves. \u201cI think this last little stretch you can see he\u2019s getting more confident with the puck and confident holding onto it\u2026just taking it yourself and making a play yourself. When he\u2019s doing that, it\u2019s great for our line and great for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Point fed Kucherov for two goals in the opening 6 minutes, 5 seconds of game time in Saturday\u2019s win over the Flyers, one that pushed the team\u2019s win streak to an NHL-best nine consecutive games.<\/p>\n
While he wasn\u2019t on the scoresheet for either of the opening goals against Philadelphia, Goncalves found his way onto the scorer\u2019s table at a key moment in the game\u2014with the visiting Lightning holding a 3-1 lead after two periods, Goncalves extended the lead to 4-1 only 2:03 into the third period on a highlight-reel goal.<\/p>\n
Goncalves accepted a pass from Kucherov at the blue line before powering to the goal line, then cutting to the net under a Flyers defenseman\u2019s stick and shelving his shot through Flyers goalie Samuel Ersson.<\/p>\n
Goncalves said postgame that the goal was partly the result of grown confidence, something he\u2019s gained in his time playing alongside Kucherov and Point.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarly on in my career, I probably don\u2019t make that play,\u201d Goncalves said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing with those two guys, you want to get them the puck as much as possible with how skilled and great they are. But we come back to the bench and they\u2019re telling me to hold onto it or try and make plays and \u2018When you get a chance to beat a guy, if that\u2019s our play, beat \u2018em.\u2019\u2026Them having belief in me just makes my confidence grow even more, and (I\u2019ll) continue to try to have that self belief that I can make plays in this league.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Tampa Bay Lightning returned from the NHL’s 2025 holiday break in time for their game on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-406546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406546","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=406546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}