The Tampa Bay Lightning earned a victory in comeback fashion on Saturday, beating the Ottawa Senators 4-2.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Emil Lilleberg scored the game-winning goal nearly nine minutes into the third period to help Tampa Bay overcome a multi-goal deficit.<\/p>\n
Ottawa grabbed a quick 2-0 lead with scores by Dylan Cozens and Jordan Spence before the five-minute mark of Saturday\u2019s contest, but Tampa Bay fought back to tie the game early in the second period thanks to goals by Brandon Hagel and Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous.<\/p>\n
Lilleberg finished a rush play on the backhand for the winner in the third, and Jake Guentzel added a breakaway goal for Tampa Bay in the 4-2 win.<\/p>\n
Lilleberg posted a team-best three points in the win, while Hagel and D\u2019Astous each finished with two points for Tampa Bay. Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 26 saves.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is now 45-21-6 this season. The Lightning have a quick turnaround this weekend and host the Nashville Predators at 5 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary
First period
OTT 1, TBL 0
00:18 Dylan Cozens (25) – Tyler Kleven, Brady Tkachuk
Ottawa grabbed a quick lead with a screened shot from the xx.<\/p>\n
OTT 2, TBL 0
4:25 Jordan Spence (5) – Nick Cousins, Artem Zub
The Senators built on the early lead with a rebound goal.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: OTT 11, TBL 8<\/p>\n
Second period
OTT 2, TBL 1
3:37 Brandon Hagel (34) – Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous, Emil Lilleberg
Brandon Hagel buried the loose puck near the net after a pass from below the goal line by defenseman Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous to get Tampa Bay going.<\/p>\n
OTT 2, TBL 2
5:13 Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous (5) – Yanni Gourde, Zemgus Girgensons
The Lightning tied the game with\u00a0Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous\u2019 second point of the game, this one\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shots on goal:\u00a0TBL 11, OTT 8<\/p>\n
Third period
TBL 3, OTT 2
8:51 Emil\u00a0Lilleberg (3) – Hagel, Gage Goncalves
Tampa Bay\u2019s first lead of the night came on a rush opportunity, this goal coming on a backhand finish for\u00a0defenseman Emil Lilleberg in tight after a pass from Hagel.<\/p>\n
TBL 4, OTT 2
17:48 Jake\u00a0Guentzel (34) – Corey Perry, Emil Lilleberg
Tampa Bay furthered the lead on a breakaway shot by Jake\u00a0Guentzel.<\/p>\n
Total shots: OTT 28, TBL 27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning earned a victory in comeback fashion on Saturday, beating the Ottawa Senators 4-2. Defenseman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-209912","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\/209912","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=209912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}