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Playing some catch up after a little road trip of my own… Lightning issue a message in the form of a snowman.
TOR-1
TB-8
Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed one goal on 37 shots for the victory.
First Period
NO SCORING
Second Period
3:54 TB Killorn (24), (Cernak, Hagel)
11:37 TB Colton (20), (Paul, Perry)
12:38 TB Stamkos (34), (Kucherov, Hedman)(PP)
15:07 TB Kucherov (20), (Perry, Killorn)(PP)
Third Period
1:12 TB Palat (17), (Sergachev, Stamkos)
4:33 TB Killorn (25), (Stamkos, Hedman)(PP)
7:46 TOR Mikheyev (19), (Spezza, Giordano)(PP)
8:50 TB Colton (21), (Palat, McDonagh)
14:11 TB Maroon (10), (Palat, Colton)
Steven Stamkos, Ross Colton, and Alex Killorn were the game’s three stars.
“Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station.”
And the thing is… Brayden Point was out. Toronto can probably laugh this one off (although they REALLY came unglued in a way that should be extremely concerning to them) with Austen Matthews out. But, for the Lightning, this felt like the breakthrough moment they’d been desperately searching for all year. They’d been decent defensively for the first 2/3 of the campaign but the goal scoring never really felt like it was all the way where it needed to be. They won a lot of squeakers this year and a lot of games after regulation whereas, in the past, they’d just blow teams off the rink. This one was a return to the old ways. I am pleased.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.
