Sunrise, Fla. (AP) — Steven Stamkos scored two plans, Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 47 pictures and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 5-3 on Saturday night.
Darren Raddysh, Michael Eyssimont and Nikita Kucherov also scored for the Lightning, who have won four of five. Vasilevskiy had 16 saves in the next interval when Tampa Bay was outshot 18-3.
“He was dialed in,” Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman reported of Vasilevskiy. “He’s been 1 of, if not the finest goalie in the league considering that he acquired in this article, it feels like. We know what he is able of and right now was 1 of these days.”
The Lightning are four factors forward of the Detroit Crimson Wings for the major wild card in the Japanese Conference.
Sam Reinhart experienced two aims and Matthew Tkachuk experienced a aim and an help as Florida missing its 2nd straight after winning 8 of 9. Sergei Bobrovsky completed with 11 saves.
The Panthers entered the night time with the ideal document in the NHL, sitting 1 point in advance of the division-rival Boston Bruins.
Josh Mahura appeared to rating for Florida 3:38 into the 2nd interval but the aim was taken off the board immediately after it was established teammate Dmitry Kulikov took a match penalty for elbowing just in advance of the purpose was scored.
“I’ve in no way noticed one particular of those,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice stated. “But that’s the attractiveness of the National Hockey League. They will always surprise you with some thing.”
Stamkos obtained the Lightning on the scoreboard just 20 seconds into the game, and Eyssimont doubled the lead with his 10th of the period 13 minutes afterwards.
Raddysh obtained his fifth at 3:02 of the second and Stamkos scored on a electricity-play for his 27th to make it 4- at 6:59.
Tkachuk obtained the Panthers on the scoreboard with a limited-handed intention 1:24 afterwards, and Reinhart made it 4-2 with a electric power-engage in rating with 8:05 left in the center interval.
Reinhart then pulled Florida within just just one with his 48th 3:52 remaining in the match.
Kucherov sealed the Lightning’s gain with an vacant-netter with 1:32 to go.
“I mean, hear, you want to commence the match speedy every time, but we realized this stretch was heading to be difficult,” Stamkos reported. “We’re participating in some truly very good teams and we uncovered a way to get some huge factors for us in the standings, so we just have to preserve heading.”
UP Following
Lightning: Pay a visit to Vegas on Tuesday evening.
Panthers: Host Nashville on Thursday night.
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