The Tampa Bay Lightning suffered a 5-1 road loss to the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday and are now 38-17-4 this season.<\/p>\n
Minnesota grabbed a 2-0 lead with goals from Brock Faber and Mats Zuccarello before Nikita Kucherov scored for Tampa Bay to make it 2-1 in the second period.<\/p>\n
The Wild scored again before the middle frame ended and added a pair of goals in the third period for the 5-1 final score.<\/p>\n
Minnesota\u2019s Matt Boldy led all players with three points. Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 17 saves in the loss, while Brayden Point and Jake Guentzel registered assists for the visitors.<\/p>\n
Next up for the Lightning is a Thursday visit to play the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
MIN 1, TBL 0<\/p>\n
3:46 Brock Faber (14) – Marcus Johansson, Matt Boldy<\/p>\n
Minnesota got the game\u2019s first goal with a shot from the right circle by defenseman Brock Faber.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 12, MIN 5<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
MIN 2, TBL 0<\/p>\n
4:59 Mats Zuccarello (11) – Quinn Hughes, Boldy – PP<\/p>\n
The Wild doubled their lead with a 4-on-3 power play goal from forward Mats Zuccarello.<\/p>\n
MIN 2, TBL 1<\/p>\n
15:07 Nikita Kucherov (32) – Brayden Point, Jake Guentzel<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay entered the scoring when Nikita Kucherov finished a rush chance by burying a top-shelf shot as the trailing player.<\/p>\n
MIN 3, TBL 1<\/p>\n
17:10 Yakov Trenin (6) – Zuccarello<\/p>\n
The Wild restored their two-goal advantage on a rebound chance for Yakov Trenin following a dump-in.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: MIN 7, TBL 6<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
MIN 4, TBL 1<\/p>\n
6:53 Hughes (6) – Unassisted<\/p>\n
Quinn Hughes kept the puck in the zone and then burst into the right hashmark before potting a shot into the top left half of the net to extend Minnesota\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n
MIN 5, TBL 1<\/p>\n
16:41 Kirill Kaprizov (35) – Faber, Boldy – EN<\/p>\n
An empty-net goal closed the night.<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 26, MIN 22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning suffered a 5-1 road loss to the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday and are now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-177388","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\/177388","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=177388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}