{"id":233938,"date":"2026-04-16T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:03:07","slug":"lightning-lose-to-rangers-4-2-look-ahead-to-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233938\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning lose to Rangers 4-2, look ahead to playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Tye Kartye scored two goals and had an assist as the New York Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-2 on Wednesday night in the regular-season finale for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Perreault and Mika Zibanejad \u2014 on the power play \u2014 also scored for New York, which snapped a three-game losing streak, while Dylan Garand made 29 saves in his first start since March 27. Zibanejad also had an assist.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Bjorkstrand and Corey Perry scored for the playoff-bound Lightning, who rested several key players. Brandon Halverson made 17 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Kartye scored 4:02 into the game to give the Rangers the early lead, then added\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYRangers\/status\/2044569143572074829\" rel=\"nofollow\">his second 1:29 into the second<\/a>\u00a0period for his first multigoal game in the NHL. By adding an assist on Perreault&#8217;s goal at 4:49 of the second period that made it 3-0, Kartye had his first three-point NHL game.<\/p>\n<p>Perry scored 51 seconds into the third period on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TBLightning\/status\/2044585514230038553\" rel=\"nofollow\">spinning backhand shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning were 0-for-3 on the power play in the game and have just one power-play goal in their last 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>Max Crozier was back in the lineup for Tampa Bay after missing 26 games with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Rangers: The Rangers&#8217; season is over.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning: Host Montreal in Game 1 of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Tye Kartye scored two goals and had an assist as the New York Rangers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2205,28,4386,115,110,135,862,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-233938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233938","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=233938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}