The Tampa Bay Lightning pushed back to force overtime on Sunday but ultimately fell in a 4-3 game to the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n
The visiting Lightning got the offense started on a Ryan McDonagh point shot, but the Flames answered with a pair of late goals to close the first period as well as a breakaway goal in the second to take a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Darren Raddysh cut the deficit to one goal later in the second period, and Pontus Holmberg evened the score late in the game.<\/p>\n
Seven different Lightning players recorded a point, and goalie Jonas Johansson finished with 25 saves.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is now 43-21-5 this season and returns home to open a seven-game homestand with Tuesday\u2019s matchup against the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary
First period
TBL 1, CGY 0
7:25 Ryan McDonagh (6) – Gage Goncalves, Brayden Point
Tampa Bay took an early lead when a Ryan McDonagh shot from the left point bounced off a Calgary skate at the net and found the back of the cage.<\/p>\n
TBL 1, CGY 1
16:25 Victor Olofsson (13) – Yegor Sharangovich, Zach Whitecloud
Calgary tied the game on a shot from the right faceoff circle.<\/p>\n
CGY 2, TBL 1
16:52 Morgan Frost (17) – Matt Coronato
The Flames got their first lead of the night with a chance at the net after Morgan Frost found open ice in the slot.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CGY 11, TBL 10<\/p>\n
Second period
CGY 3, TBL 1
8:28 Mikael Backlund (16) – Blake Coleman, Hunter Brzustewicz
The Flames extended the advantage on a slap shot from captain Mikael Backlund.<\/p>\n
CGY 3, TBL 2
11:47 Darren Raddysh (19) – Nikita Kucherov, JJ Moser
Lightning defenseman Darren Raddysh\u2019s windup at the point beat Flames goalie Devin Cooley to cut into the home team\u2019s deficit.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 15, CGY 11<\/p>\n
Third period
CGY 3, TBL 3
15:40\u00a0Pontus Holmberg (10) – Yanni Gourde
The Lightning tied the game late with a\u00a0netfront chance for Pontus Holmberg following a pass from Yanni Gourde.<\/p>\n
Overtime
CGY 4, TBL 3
00:26 Ryan\u00a0Strome (5) – Matvei Gridin, Kevin Bahl
The Flames scored on their first chance of overtime to take the win.<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 35, CGY 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning pushed back to force overtime on Sunday but ultimately fell in a 4-3 game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-201972","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\/201972","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=201972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}