The Tampa Bay Lightning never trailed on Thursday night, beating the Winnipeg Jets 4-1 at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n
The win improves the Lightning to 34-14-4 this season.<\/p>\n
Dominic James and Darren Raddysh gave the Lightning a 2-0 lead before the Jets got one goal back on a tipped shot, but Yanni Gourde reclaimed the two-goal lead minutes later.<\/p>\n
An empty-net goal from Nikita Kucherov sealed the win for the home team.<\/p>\n
Raddysh led the Lightning with three points, and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 22 saves in the win.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay will now take the game outdoors when they host the Boston Bruins for the 2026 Navy Federal Credit Union Stadium Series at Raymond James Stadium this Sunday.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period
TBL 1, WPG 0
14:58 Dominic James (5) – Darren Raddysh, JJ Moser
Rookie Dominic James gave the Lightning the game\u2019s first lead by breaking in alone and burying his shot through the legs of Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: WPG 11, TBL 10<\/p>\n
Second period
TBL 2, WPG 0
1:37 Darren Raddysh (15) – Yanni Gourde, Zemgus Girgensons
The Lightning extended the lead on a Darren Raddysh slap shot from the right point.<\/p>\n
TBL 2, WPG 1
12:25 Kyle Connor (24) – Dylan Samberg, Mark Scheifele
The Jets made their way onto the scoreboard with a deflection in the second period.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, WPG 1
15:16 Yanni Gourde (7) – Nikita Kucherov, Raddysh
Yanni Gourde potted a redirected shot from the high slot with the Lightning attacking at 6-on-5 during a delayed penalty call against the Jets.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 11, WPG 8<\/p>\n
Third period
TBL 4, WPG 1
18:57 Kucherov (27) – Gourde, Girgensons – EN
Kucherov ended the night with an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 37, WPG 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning never trailed on Thursday night, beating the Winnipeg Jets 4-1 at Benchmark International Arena.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-137182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137182","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=137182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}