The Tampa Bay Lightning got back to their winning ways on Saturday, handing an Atlantic Division foe in the Toronto Maple Leafs a 5-2 loss on the road.<\/p>\n
Toronto opened the scoring off the rush 4:50 into the game before the Lightning rattled off five straight goals, including one from Corey Perry in the forward\u2019s return to the lineup after being acquired in a trade on Friday.<\/p>\n
Toronto got a goal late for the 5-2 final.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov led Tampa Bay with four assists to reach 100 points on the season, while Jake Guentzel joined Brayden Point, Brandon Hagel and Anthony Cirelli with two-point nights. Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves in the victory, helping Tampa Bay improve to 39-18-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bolts now head to Buffalo on Sunday, when they\u2019ll face the Buffalo Sabres (38-19-6) for the Atlantic Division lead.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary
First period
TOR 1, TBL 0
4:50 Matias Maccelli (13) – William Nylander
A turnover sent the Maple Leafs on a rush early in the game, and William Nylander found Matias Maccelli for a score at the hashmarks.<\/p>\n
TOR 1, TBL 1
5:36 Ryan McDonagh (5) – Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point
Tampa Bay needed only 46 seconds to tie the game, their goal coming when a Ryan McDonagh shot at the left faceoff dot went in off a Maple Leafs defender in front of the net.<\/p>\n
TBL 2, TOR 1
12:30 Jake Guentzel (27) – Point, Kucherov
Jake Guentzel buried a rebound chance on his backhand to give Tampa Bay their first lead of the night.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, TOR 1
13:48 Corey Perry (12) – Brandon Hagel, Anthony Cirelli
Forward Corey Perry didn\u2019t wait long to score in his return to the Lightning lineup, burying a shot in the left circle after kicking the puck to his stick.<\/p>\n
TBL 4, TOR 1
15:06 Oliver Bjorkstrand (11) – Kucherov, Guentzel – PP
Tampa Bay kept their strong start rolling with a one-timer by Oliver Bjorkstrand on the left side of a power-play setup.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 12, TOR 11<\/p>\n
Second period
None.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TOR 8, TBL 7<\/p>\n
Third period
TBL 5, TOR 1
15:41\u00a0Hagel (29) – Cirelli, Kucherov – EN
Tampa Bay got an empty-net goal for Brandon\u00a0Hagel.<\/p>\n
TBL 5, TOR 2
19:29 Nicholas Robertson (13) –\u00a0Unasssited
A wrap-around goal in the closing minute ended the scoring.<\/p>\n
Total shots:\u00a0TBL 33, TOR 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning got back to their winning ways on Saturday, handing an Atlantic Division foe in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-182766","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\/182766","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=182766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}