{"id":131098,"date":"2026-01-25T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:47:07","slug":"marchments-hat-trick-powers-blue-jackets-past-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131098\/","title":{"rendered":"Marchment’s hat trick powers Blue Jackets past Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikita Kucherov<\/a> scored and had three assists, Jake Guentzel<\/a> had two goals and an assist, and Jonas Johansson<\/a> made 23 saves for the Lightning (32-14-4). Their 14-0-1 streak was the third-longest in team history behind 16 games in 2018-19 and 18 in 2003-04.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t overshadow the fact that, in our last 30 points, we got 29 of them and at some point a team\u2019s going to beat you,\u201d Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got a good squad over there. They\u2019ve got one of the best defensemen in the League (Zach Werenski<\/a>), and they were ready for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be an easy one to turn the page and move on to a home stretch here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lightning, on the second of a back-to-back after defeating the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 in a shootout on Friday, lost defenseman Erik Cernak<\/a> to an injury and forward Gage Goncalves<\/a> due to illness late in the first period, and defenseman Charle-Edouard D’Astous<\/a> left in the third period.<\/p>\n

“We knew we were just going to keep coming, and they played back-to-back and they’re on the second night of that,” Coyle said.<\/p>\n

Cole Sillinger<\/a> made it 1-0 at 5:47 of the first period with a wrist shot from the left circle after a neutral zone turnover.<\/p>\n

Guentzel tied it 1-1 at 7:48 thanks to an own goal. After he dumped the puck, Greaves tried a clearing pass but it went into the net off the skate of Columbus forward Isac Lundestrom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marchment regained the one-goal lead 2-1, juking the defender before taking a wrist shot from the slot at 8:37.<\/p>\n

Darren Raddysh<\/a> evened it 2-2 at 10:01 with a power-play goal before Fantilli broke his 17-game goal drought at 18:33 to push it 3-2.<\/p>\n

Dmitri Voronkov<\/a> got the poke check on Lightning forward Yanni Gourde<\/a> in the Blue Jackets offensive zone, took the puck to the net and got a wrist shot off in front to make it 4-2 at 19:47.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat first period, we had too many turnovers,\u201d Lightning forward Anthony Cirelli<\/a> said. \u201cThat’s a fast, skilled team over there that could capitalize on their chances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikita Kucherov scored and had three assists, Jake Guentzel had two goals and an assist, and Jonas Johansson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-131098","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\/131098","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=131098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}