{"id":123251,"date":"2026-01-18T23:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123251\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:47:14","slug":"lightning-push-point-streak-to-13-with-win-against-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123251\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning push point streak to 13 with win against Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oskar Back<\/a> scored and Jake Oettinger<\/a> made 22 saves for the Stars (27-13-9), who have just two wins since the Christmas holiday break (2-6-3) and are 1-3-1 in their past 5 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s just a story of they\u2019re 11-0-1, now 12-0-1 in their last [13 games], and they just stayed with their game longer than we did. They won more battles,\u201d Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. \u201cQuite frankly, the second and third goals were mistakes by our guys that are in our top two lines that are just pressing. I think all night they won more battles, especially in the second half, and they stayed with their game longer than we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back gave the Stars a 1-0 lead at 4:00 of the first period when he swiped the puck into the net after it trickled under the pads of Vasilevskiy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like [at] the start we were playing simple, putting pucks and getting pucks back on the forecheck. When things kind of start going against us, we get a little frustrated and try to do a bit much,\u201d Back said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to find scoring anywhere right now. Everyone is trying to find something. Hopefully it\u2019ll click soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

James tied it 1-1 at 8:04. He and Guentzel skated into the zone on the 2-on-1 rush down the left side, with James passing to Guentzel, and then getting the puck back for the snap shot from below the left face-off dot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a huge goal by James. On the road, they score first, and then [we] score within (almost) four minutes, it’s a little bit of a momentum shift for us,\u201d Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. \u201cThey compete hard, they go get into those rough areas, corners in front of the net. Our guys [played] hard and that\u2019s paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oskar Back scored and Jake Oettinger made 22 saves for the Stars (27-13-9), who have just two wins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-123251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}