NHL Preseason Game Night 9/23: Rangers at Lightning

Good start to the season for Mike Smith.

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Mike Smith stopped 38 of 40 shots faced for the win.

First Period
Tampa Bay 11:44, Ryan Craig 1 (Evgeny Artyukhin)

Second Period
Tampa Bay 7:01, Steven Stamkos 1 (power play) (Radim Vrbata, Ryan Malone)
Tampa Bay 10:00, Martin St. Louis 1 (power play) (Matt Carle, Jussi Jokinen)
NY Rangers 19:36, Daniel Girardi 1 (power play) (Scott Gomez, Wade Redden)

Third Period
NY Rangers 17:07, Fredrik Sjostrom 1 (power play) (Pierre Parenteau, Lauri Korpikoski)

This was much closer to the opening night lineup, so there were fewer prospects in uniform:

Janne Niskala was +1 with 1 shot, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 19:23.

Vladimir Mihalik had 1 blocked shot in 16:04.

Steven Stamkos had 1 goal, 1 shot, 3 hits, and was 67% on draws to go with a +1 rating in 14:46.

Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.