The Tampa Bay Lightning overcame a pair of two-goal deficits to beat the Minnesota Wild 6-3 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Minnesota grabbed a 2-0 lead through 20 minutes behind a pair of power-play goals before the Lightning pushed back in the second period.<\/p>\n
Brayden Point put Tampa Bay on the scorer\u2019s table 5:45 into the second period before the Wild got a goal from Vladimir Tarasenko for a 3-1 lead. Tampa Bay scored back-to-back tallies to tie the game, one from Jake Guentzel and another from Darren Raddysh.<\/p>\n
Erik Cernak won the game with 2:53 remaining after a puck rolled through the legs of Minnesota goalie Filip Gustavsson and left Cernak alone with an open net.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay added an empty-net goal and an awarded score for a 6-3 final.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Raddysh led Tampa Bay with three points, while Jake Guentzel and Brandon Hagel had two. Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 20 saves and an assist in the Tampa Bay net.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is now 44-21-5 and next hosts the Seattle Kraken on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary
First period
MIN 1, TBL 0
2:28 Mats Zuccarello (14) – Quinn Hughes, Matt Boldy – PP
The visitors took advantage of an early power play, scoring when a Mats Zuccarello pass went in off a Lightning player\u2019s skate at the net.<\/p>\n
MIN 2, TBL 0
18:49 Brock Faber (15) – Vladimir Tarasenko, Bobby Brink – PP
Minnesota extended the lead on another power-play goal, this one a shot from the point.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: MIN 10, TBL 10<\/p>\n
Second period
MIN 2, TBL 1
5:45\u00a0Brayden Point (17) – Brandon Hagel, Darren Raddysh – PP
Tampa Bay got their first goal on a power-play shot by\u00a0Brayden Point from the hashmarks.<\/p>\n
MIN 3, TBL 1
9:51\u00a0Tarasenko (21) – Marcus Johansson, Ryan Hartman
The Wild restored their two-goal advantage when a Vladimir\u00a0Tarasenko shot bounced off a Lightning stick and changed directions.<\/p>\n
MIN 3, TBL 2
12:27 Jake\u00a0Guentzel (32) – Raddysh, Gage Goncalves
Tampa Bay scored their second goal of the period on a rebound chance for Jake\u00a0Guentzel.<\/p>\n
MIN 3, TBL 3
15:19\u00a0Raddysh (20) – Nikita Kucherov, Guentzel – PP
Tampa Bay tied the game thanks to a power-play shot from Darren\u00a0Raddysh.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 8, MIN 6<\/p>\n
Third period
TBL 4, MIN 3
17:07 Erik\u00a0Cernak (2) – Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous, Andrei Vasilevskiy
The game-winning goal was a tap-in for\u00a0defenseman Erik Cernak after Minnesota goalie Filip Gustavsson attempted to play a rolling puck and it slipped through his leg pads and into the crease.<\/p>\n
TBL 5, MIN 3
18:42\u00a0Hagel (33) – Nick Paul – PP, EN
An empty-net goal sealed the win for the Lightning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TBL 6, MIN 3
Pontus Holmberg (11) – Unassisted – AWD
Pontus Holmberg was awarded a goal after being tripped on a clean break with the net empty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 24, MIN 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning overcame a pair of two-goal deficits to beat the Minnesota Wild 6-3 on Tuesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-204878","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\/204878","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=204878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}