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Losing start to road trip puts Lightning on brink of a bad opening to the season.
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Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed four goals on 33 shots for the loss.
First Period
7:20 LA Danault (4), (Vilardi, Anderson)
15:14 TB Hagel (2), (Sergachev, Kucherov)
Second Period
5:03 LA Vilardi (5), (Doughty, Fiala)(PP)
13:17 LA Lizotte (1), (Clarke, Kaliyev)
Third Period
14:30 LA Kempe (5), (Kopitar)
17:44 TB Kucherov (1), (unassisted)
With the loss, Tampa Bay now win the remaining three games of this opening ten game segment of the season, or they’ll be behind playoff pace to start the year. If there’s a silver lining, at least Kucherov broke his goalless slump.
Strange and interesting decision by the coaching staff to scratch Koepke after his open ice hit in the Isles game really was the pivotal momentum shifter in the contest.
Nick Perbix was -1 with 2 shots and 2 blocked shots in 9:10.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.
