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Lightning end opening road trip with Third Period embarrassment.
TB-2
PIT-6
Brian Elliott allowed five goals on 44 shots for the loss. He gave them a chance through 40 minutes.
First Period
4:10 TB Stamkos (4), (Hedman, Kucherov)(PP)
17:00 PIT Crosby (2), (Guentzel, Dumoulin)
Second Period
4:11 PIT Heinen (1), (Carter, Zucker)(PP)
Third Period
2:28 PIT Guentzel (2), (Letang, Crosby)
3:50 PIT Carter (1), (Kapanen, Joseph)
13:31 PIT Rust (2), (Crosby, Malkin)(PP)
14:03 TB Point (1), (Kucherov, Stamkos)
15:55 PIT Rakell (1), (unassisted)(EN)
Sometimes this Lightning team gets an early goal and they get a little fat and happy thinking it’ll be easy and they forget to play the rest of the game. Tonight, I would say they forgot to play the final 40 minutes, and although Elliott papered that over in the Second Period he couldn’t pull their bacon out of the fire in a Third Period that is embarrassing for a team this caliber.
Gabriel Fortier had a hit in 8:25.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.
