Tampa Bay treated its home fans to a 4-1 win over the San Jose Sharks at Benchmark International Arena on Tuesday, pushing its point streak to 14 games and improving to 31-13-4 in the process.<\/p>\n
The Lightning surrendered the first goal to the Sharks as Tyler Toffoli opened the scoring with 5:23 left in the first period, but Brandon Hagel tied the game shortly after.<\/p>\n
Anthony Cirelli and Jake Guentzel scored in the second period to claim a Bolts lead, and Tampa Bay added an insurance marker in the third period from Hagel into the empty net.<\/p>\n
Hagel led Tampa Bay with three points, and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves in the win.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
SJS 1, TBL 0<\/p>\n
14:37 Tyler Toffoli (14) – William Eklund, Alexander Wennberg<\/p>\n
The visitors opened the scoring when William Eklund wrapped the puck around the Lightning net, and it went in off the body of Tyler Toffoli.<\/p>\n
SJS 1, TBL 1<\/p>\n
15:10 Brandon Hagel (24) – Anthony Cirelli, Nikita Kucherov<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay found the tying goal only 33 seconds after the opening score, theirs coming on a backdoor marker from Brandon Hagel at the left goalpost.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: SJS 8, TBL 6<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
TBL 2, SJS 1<\/p>\n
1:49 Anthony Cirelli (13) – Hagel, Kucherov<\/p>\n
The Lightning earned their first lead of the night early in the second period on a rebound goal from Anthony Cirelli.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, SJS 1<\/p>\n
3:17 Jake Guentzel (22) – Dominic James, Gage Goncalves<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay expanded its lead only 88 seconds after the Cirelli goal with Guentzel\u2019s one-timer from the right hashmark.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 7, SJS 5<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
TBL 4, SJS 1<\/p>\n
17:41 Hagel (25) – Guentzel, JJ Moser – EN<\/p>\n
Hagel\u2019s second goal of the night was into the empty San Jose net to close the night.<\/p>\n
Total shots: SJS 23, TBL 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay treated its home fans to a 4-1 win over the San Jose Sharks at Benchmark International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-125796","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\/125796","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=125796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}