Holmberg, who entered the game with three goals and three assists in 11 games this season, had one goal and three assists.<\/p>\n
Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel each had a goal and two assists for the Lightning (8-3-1), who are undefeated at home this season (6-0-0). Andrei Vasilevskiy made 17 saves.<\/p>\n
Neal Pionk scored twice, Kyle Connor and Dylan Samberg each had a goal and an assist, and Mark Scheifele had three assists for the Jets (4-6-3), who are 0-5-2 in their past seven. Cole Perfetti had two assists.<\/p>\n
Stuart Skinner allowed five goals on 21 shots before he was replaced by Nico Daws to begin the third period. Daws made nine saves in his Jets debut.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old goalie was acquired in a trade with the New Jersey Devils on Oct. 23 along with forwards Dawson Mercer and Nick Bjugstad, the rights to unsigned draft choice Alexander Command, the Devils\u2019 own second-round pick in the 2029 NHL Draft and their seventh-round selection in the 2027 NHL Draft in exchange for goalie Connor Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n
Brayden Point gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 2:20 of the first period, scoring with a shot above the hashmarks off a pass from Nikita Kucherov.<\/p>\n
Pionk tied it 1-1 at 17:45 after he collected a feed from Perfetti and beat Vasilevskiy with a slap shot from the blue line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Conor Geekie put the Lightning ahead 2-1 at 9:43 of the second period with a chip-in from close range to finish a 2-on-1 rush with Dominic James providing the pass.<\/p>\n
Cirelli extended the lead to 3-1 with a power-play goal at 15:56, beating Haydn Fleury to the blue paint to score after Gage Goncalves sent the puck to the net.<\/p>\n
John Carlson pushed it to 4-1 at 18:07, scoring with a one-timer from the left face-off circle off a pass from Holmberg.<\/p>\n
Hagel lifted a Cirelli feed from in front at 19:03 to make it 5-1.<\/p>\n
Samberg made it 5-2 at 7:00 of the third period, scoring with a one-handed tip from the low slot off a pass from Perfetti.<\/p>\n
Pionk’s second goal of the game cut the deficit to 5-3 when he put home a cross-ice feed from Mercer at 8:50. The assist was Mercer’s first point with Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg appeared to make it 5-4 at 15:38, but Jets forward Adam Lowry caused the net to be displaced from its moorings prior to the puck crossing the goal line.<\/p>\n
Connor did bring Winnipeg to within 5-4 at 17:12 with a wrist shot from the right circle that beat Vasilevskiy on the short side.<\/p>\n
Holmberg scored an empty-net goal at 18:29 for the 6-4 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holmberg, who entered the game with three goals and three assists in 11 games this season, had one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-945853","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\/945853","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=945853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}