Pontus Holmberg and a four-goal second period led the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 6-4 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n
The game started as a 1-1 tie before goals from Conor Geekie, Anthony Cirelli, John Carlson and Holmberg tilted the score for the home team in the middle frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Jets got three goals back in the third period before Holmberg closed the scoring on an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n
Pontus Holmberg\u2019s four points led the Lightning, while Cirelli and Brandon Hagel each had three.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay improves to 8-3-1 this season and now heads to Nashville for a 2 p.m. game Saturday against the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary
First period
TBL 1, WPG 0
2:20 Brayden Point (3) – Nikita Kucherov, Jake Guentzel
Tampa Bay took an early lead on Brayden Point\u2019s top-shelf shot in the slot moments after a pass from Nikita Kucherov.<\/p>\n
TBL 1, WPG 1
17:45 Neal\u00a0Pionk (2) – Cole Perfetti, Mark Scheifele
Winnipeg evened the score with a shot from the blue line.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 7, WPG 6<\/p>\n
Second period
TBL 2, WPG 1
9:43\u00a0Conor Geekie (3) – Dominic James, Jeffrey Viel
Tampa Bay regained its lead on a rush chance for Conor Geekie and Dominic James.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, WPG 1
15:56 Anthony\u00a0Cirelli (4) – Pontus Holmberg, Gage Goncalves – PP
The Lightning power play kept its strong stretch going when Anthony\u00a0Cirelli tapped home a Holmberg feed at the net.<\/p>\n
TBL 4, WPG 1
18:07 John\u00a0Carlson (4) – Holmberg, Brandon Hagel
A\u00a0Carlson one-timer extended the Lightning lead following a big hit by Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous.<\/p>\n
TBL 5, WPG 1
19:03\u00a0Hagel (8) – Cirelli, Holmberg
Holmberg forced a turnover in the offensive zone to create a chance for Cirelli and Hagel, and the latter buried his chance near the net.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 14, WPG 7<\/p>\n
Third period
TBL 5, WPG 2
7:00 Dylan\u00a0Samberg (1) – Perfetti, Scheifele
The Jets got a deflection goal early in the third period from\u00a0defenseman Dylan Samberg.<\/p>\n
TBL 5, WPG 3
8:50\u00a0Pionk (3) – Dawson Mercer, Kyle Connor
Pionk\u2019s second goal of the game cut the visitors\u2019 deficit to two.<\/p>\n
TBL 5, WPG 4
17:12 Connor (10) –\u00a0Scheifele, Samberg
Winnipeg’s goal at 6-on-5 made it a one-goal game late.<\/p>\n
TBL 6, WPG 4
18:29\u00a0Holmberg (4) – Cirelli, Hagel – EN
The night ended with an empty-net score for\u00a0Holmberg, his fourth point of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Total shots:\u00a0TBL 31, WPG 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pontus Holmberg and a four-goal second period led the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 6-4 victory over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-442092","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\/442092","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=442092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}