The Tampa Bay Lightning got back in the win column on Thursday, taking a 4-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings at Benchmark International Arena. Tampa Bay is now 40-20-4.<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel opened the scoring with a power-play goal in the opening minute of the middle frame, and Gage Goncalves\u2019 career-high ninth goal of the season made it 2-0 in the opening moments of the third period.<\/p>\n
The Red Wings cut the lead to one, but the Lightning held on for the win after Goncalves\u2019 second goal of the game made it 3-1 and Guentzel added an empty-net goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Goncalves, Guentzel, Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point each had two points, and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves in the win.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay closes its three-game homestand with a 7 p.m. matchup with the Carolina Hurricanes this Saturday.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary
First period
None.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 7, DET 5<\/p>\n
Second period
TBL 1, DET 0
00:49 Jake Guentzel (28) – Nikita Kucherov, Corey Perry – PP
Tampa Bay broke through to open the scoring less than a minute into the second period with Jake Guentzel\u2019s shot from the right hashmark on a power play rush.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: DET 13, TBL 10<\/p>\n
Third period
TBL 2, DET 0
1:35 Gage Goncalves (9) – Brayden Point
Tampa Bay extended its lead early in the third period when a deep shot by Brayden Point took multiple bounces before hitting Gage Goncalves\u2019 skate and landing in the Red Wings\u2019 net.<\/p>\n
TBL 2, DET 1
7:05\u00a0J.T. Compher (9) – Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Kane
The visitors got a goal back on a\u00a0J.T. Compher redirection at the net.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, DET 1
16:22\u00a0Goncalves (10) – Point, Kucherov
Another redirection from\u00a0Goncalves extended the lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TBL 4, DET 1
16:55\u00a0Guentzel (29) – Anthony Cirelli – EN
An empty-net goal sealed the win for Tampa Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Total shots:\u00a0TBL 28, DET 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning got back in the win column on Thursday, taking a 4-1 win over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-189556","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\/189556","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=189556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}