The Tampa Bay Lightning erased a two-goal deficit in the second period on Saturday night, but the host Columbus Blue Jackets went on to win 8-5 and end Tampa Bay\u2019s 15-game point streak at Nationwide Arena.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay falls to 32-14-4 this season.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov led the Lightning with a goal and three assists, while Anthony Cirelli and Jake Guentzel had three points apiece.<\/p>\n
Mason Marchment led Columbus with a hat-trick and an assist.<\/p>\n
The Lightning now return home to host the Utah Mammoth on Monday.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
CBJ 1, TBL 0<\/p>\n
5:47 Cole Sillinger (6) – Charlie Coyle<\/p>\n
Columbus\u2019 Cole Sillinger scored on a shot from the left circle after a Lightning turnover to open the scoring.<\/p>\n
CBJ 1, TBL 1<\/p>\n
7:48 Jake Guentzel (23) – Unassisted<\/p>\n
The game was tied on an own goal from Columbus when goalie Jet Greaves\u2019 clearing attempt went in off his own player. The goal was credited to Jake Guentzel.<\/p>\n
CBJ 2, TBL 1<\/p>\n
8:37 Mason Marchment (10) – Erik Gudbranson<\/p>\n
The Blue Jackets regained their advantage with a shot by Mason Marchment above the right faceoff circle.<\/p>\n
CBJ 2, TBL 2<\/p>\n
10:01 Darren Raddysh (13) – Nikita Kucherov, Guentzel – PP<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay tied the game once again, this time with a one-timer from defenseman Darren Raddysh atop a power play chance midway through the first period.<\/p>\n
CBJ 3, TBL 2<\/p>\n
18:33 Adam Fantilli (13) – Kirill Marchenko, Marchment<\/p>\n
Columbus took its third lead of the period with a goal from Adam Fantilli\u2019s shot of a netfront loose puck.<\/p>\n
CBJ 4, TBL 2<\/p>\n
19:46 Dmitri Voronkov (17) – Danton Heinen, Egor Zamula<\/p>\n
A turnover ended in a breakaway and the hosts\u2019 fourth goal of the period.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CBJ 11, TBL 7<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
CBJ 4, TBL 3<\/p>\n
3:29 Kucherov (26) – Brandon Hagel, Anthony Cirelli<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov drew his team within a goal of the hosts early in the second, potting the puck with a backhand shot in front of the net after Brandon Hagel passed from his stomach in the corner.<\/p>\n
CBJ 4, TBL 4<\/p>\n
4:58 Cirelli (14) – Kucherov, Hagel<\/p>\n
The Lightning once again tied the game less than five minutes into the middle frame. Anthony Cirelli scored on a 3-on-1 rush at the left goalpost.<\/p>\n
CBJ 5, TBL 4<\/p>\n
9:05 Marchment (11) – Werenski, Coyle<\/p>\n
Shortly after leaving the penalty box, Marchment\u2019s second goal of the game made it 5-4 Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n
CBJ 6, TBL 4<\/p>\n
18:57 Coyle (11) – Fantilli, Werenski – PP<\/p>\n
Charlie Coyle snuck a shot inside the near post on a Columbus power play to close the second period.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CBJ 16, TBL 10<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
CBJ 7, TBL 4<\/p>\n
14:55 Sean Monahan (8) – Unassisted – EN<\/p>\n
An empty-net goal padded the lead for the home team.<\/p>\n
CBJ 7, TBL 5<\/p>\n
18:54 Guentzel (24) – Kucherov, Cirelli<\/p>\n
Guentzel got his second goal of the game at 6-on-5, scoring with a shot into the top right corner of the net.<\/p>\n
CBJ 8, TBL 5<\/p>\n
19:34 Marchment (12) – Marchenko – EN<\/p>\n
Marchment got an empty-net goal to cap the night.<\/p>\n
Total shots: CBJ 32, TBL 30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning erased a two-goal deficit in the second period on Saturday night, but the host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-130951","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\/130951","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=130951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}