3
0
Lightning square up their record at .500 by scratching past Islanders.
NYI-3
TB-5
Brian Elliott allowed three goals on 36 shots for the win. He’ll want one of those goals back, but he did what you need your backup to do giving his team the chance to pull it out in the tail of the back to back.
First Period
10:43 TB Point (4), (Kucherov, Hagel)
12:29 NYI Martin (1), (unassisted)
18:03 TB Hagel (1), (Point, Hedman)
Second Period
3:12 TB Perry (2), (Bellemare, Maroon)
9:36 NYI Beauvillier (2), (Nelson)
19:59 TB Paul (1), (Colton)
Third Period
5:45 NYI Pulock (1), (unassisted)
14:08 TB Killorn (1), (Paul, Sergachev)
Brayden Point, Brandon Hagel, and Nick Paul were the game’s three stars.
This was the tail end of a back to back with Cernak out so the RHD available were Foote, Perbix, and Myers in front of your backup netminder. It was a sloppy game. The Lightning wholesale gave the Islanders goals with awful turnovers that plagued them all game. But, they pushed past that to manufacture the win in part due to the Isles’ goaltending not necessarily being its best. Take the result and the good feelings under the circumstances and keep it rolling.
The Lightning now need six points in the remaining four games of this 10 game segment to get on playoff pace. Difficult, but more do-able than where they were a week ago.
Cole Koepke was +1 with 3 hits in 7:47. He was the focal point on the sequence that pretty much turned the tide of this game making a big neutral zone hit that resulted in Paul’s goal with 0.1 seconds left in the Second Period.
Nick Perbix was +1 with 1 shot and 1 hit in 17:13. Among the group of RHD the team brought into the game, he had the highest amount of ice time. It says a lot, IMO, about the state of the right side of the defensive corps beyond Cernak.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.
