The Tampa Bay Lightning capped the 2025-26 regular season at home with Wednesday\u2019s 4-2 loss to the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n
The Rangers opened the game with three straight goals and never gave the advantage back.<\/p>\n
Wednesday marked the final game of the 2025-26 regular season for the Lightning, who finish with a 50-26-6 record.<\/p>\n
Tye Kartye scored in the opening minutes and got his second of the game early in the second period before assisting on the 3-0 goal. He led all players with three points.<\/p>\n
Oliver Bjorkstrand got Tampa Bay on the scoreboard, but the Rangers then made it 4-1 on a power play goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Corey Perry closed the scoring with his 17th goal of the year in the third period.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
NYR 1, TBL 0<\/p>\n
4:02 Tye Kartye (7) – Mika Zibanejad, Vladislav Gavrikov<\/p>\n
The visitors took an early lead with Tye Kartye\u2019s shot from the right faceoff circle.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 7, NYR 6<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
NYR 2, TBL 0<\/p>\n
1:29 Kartye (8) – JT Miller, Conor Sheary<\/p>\n
The Rangers built on the lead in the opening moments of the second period with Kartye\u2019s second goal of the game, this one a shot after the puck bounced off the end wall.<\/p>\n
NYR 3, TBL 0<\/p>\n
4:49 Gabe Perreault (12) – Will Cuylle, Kartye<\/p>\n
A screened shot ended with the 3-0 goal for New York.<\/p>\n
NYR 3, TBL 1<\/p>\n
11:15 Oliver Bjorkstrand (12)\u00a0 – Scott Sabourin, Mitchell Chaffee<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay involved themselves in the scoring thanks to an Oliver Bjorkstrand rebound bury.<\/p>\n
NYR 4, TBL 1<\/p>\n
12:46 Zibanejad (34) – Alexis Lafreniere, Miller – PP<\/p>\n
The Rangers restored their three-goal lead on a power play chance.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 9, NYR 9<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
NYR 4, TBL 2<\/p>\n
00:51 Corey Perry (17) – Zemgus Girgensons, Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Corey Perry\u2019s spinning backhand shot cut the deficit to two in the opening minute of the third period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 31, NYR 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning capped the 2025-26 regular season at home with Wednesday\u2019s 4-2 loss to the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-233619","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\/233619","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=233619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}