Tampa Bay Lightning forward Corey Perry scored the game-winning goal 6 minutes, 52 seconds into the third period for a 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators on Sunday at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n
Neither team found the scoresheet in the first period before Nashville\u2019s Joakim Kemell and Jake Guentzel traded goals in the second period.<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel gave the home team their first lead early in the third period, but Nashville tied the score 20 seconds later on a double deflection. Corey Perry then buried a loose puck at the net to reclaim the Lightning lead 6:52 into the third period.<\/p>\n
Goalie Jonas Johansson made 29 saves and Guentzel had a game-high three points for the Lightning, who are now 46-21-6 this season.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay continues the homestand this Tuesday with a visit from Atlantic Division opponent Montreal.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
None.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: NSH 10, TBL 1<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
NSH 1, TBL 0<\/p>\n
8:31 Joakim Kemell (1) – Filip Forsberg, Justin Barron<\/p>\n
The Predators got the game\u2019s first goal on a breakaway chance that was called a goal after Predators forward Joakim Kemell was tripped into the net and the puck followed him in.<\/p>\n
NSH 1, TBL 1<\/p>\n
13:32 Jake Guentzel (35) – Darren Raddysh, Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay tied the game with Jake Guentzel\u2019s fourth goal in as many games. Darren Raddysh\u2019s point shot hit a Nashville defensemen and bounced to Guentzel, who buried the second opportunity near the net.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 11, NSH 8<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
TBL 2, NSH 1<\/p>\n
4:33 Brandon Hagel (35) – Jake Guentzel<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel\u2019s shot from the high slot went off the left post and in for the Lightning lead.<\/p>\n
TBL 2, NSH 2<\/p>\n
4:53 Forsberg (34) – Fedor Svechkov, Adam Wilsby<\/p>\n
A pair of bounces off Lightning players tied the game at two.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, NSH 2<\/p>\n
6:52 Corey Perry (15) – Guentzel, Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay retook the lead on Corey Perry\u2019s deposit of a puck that slipped through the legpads of Nashville goalie Justus Annunen.<\/p>\n
Total shots: NSH 31, TBL 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning forward Corey Perry scored the game-winning goal 6 minutes, 52 seconds into the third period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-211095","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\/211095","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=211095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}