A first period lead wasn\u2019t enough for a Tampa Bay Lightning victory on Tuesday in a 5-2 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay took a lead with Gage Goncalves\u2019 redirection of a Victor Hedman point shot, but Columbus scored three straight goals to open the second period.<\/p>\n
Defenseman JJ Moser reduced the lead to a single goal with his score from the blue line, but the Blue Jackets made it 5-2 with a power-play goal and empty-net tally in the third.<\/p>\n
Five different Bolts registered a point, and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 26 saves.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay next hosts the Detroit Red Wings in a divisional matchup on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
TBL 1, CBJ 0<\/p>\n
13:38 Gage Goncalves (8) – Victor Hedman, Nikita Kucherov<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay opened the scoring on a redirection from Gage Goncalves in his return to the lineup, getting his stick on a point shot from Victor Hedman.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CBJ 9, TBL 4<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
TBL 1, CBJ 1<\/p>\n
5:57 Ivan Provorov (8) – Denton Mateychuk, Charlie Coyle<\/p>\n
The Blue Jackets tied the game on a shot from the blue line that bounced off a Lightning player in front of the net.<\/p>\n
CBJ 2, TBL 1<\/p>\n
6:27 Conor Garland (10) – Kent Johnson, Sean Monahan<\/p>\n
Columbus took its first lead 30 seconds after the tying goal as Conor Garland scored from the high slot.<\/p>\n
CBJ 3, TBL 1<\/p>\n
11:42 Kirill Marchenko (24) – Adam Fantilli, Zach Werenski – PP<\/p>\n
A power-play one-timer extended the Blue Jackets\u2019 lead.<\/p>\n
CBJ 3, TBL 2<\/p>\n
16:23 JJ Moser (7) – Anthony Cirelli<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay cut the lead to a single goal on JJ Moser\u2019s shot from the blue line.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CBJ 12, TBL 8<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
CBJ 4, TBL 2<\/p>\n
3:59 Garland (11) – Monahan, Werenski – PP<\/p>\n
Garland\u2019s second goal of the night came on a backhand shot near the net during a Blue Jackets power play.<\/p>\n
CBJ 5, TBL 2<\/p>\n
15:28 Dante Fabbro (5) – Elvis Merzlikins – EN<\/p>\n
Columbus capped the night with\u00a0an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n
Total shots: CBJ 31, TBL 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A first period lead wasn\u2019t enough for a Tampa Bay Lightning victory on Tuesday in a 5-2 loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-186626","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\/186626","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=186626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}