Pete Choquette Tampa Bay clubs Sunrise split squad team. FLA-1TB-5 Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed one goal on 24 shots for the victory. First Period1:32 TB Point (42), (Gourde, Moser)15:25 TB Geekie (8), (Point, Hedman)18:09 TB Guentzel (41), (Cirelli)(SH) Second Period4:42 TB Kucherov (37), (Gourde, Point)5:36 FLA Marchand (23), (Verhaeghe, Kiersted) Third Period11:22 TB Raddysh (6), (Kucherov, Hedman)(PP) Brayden … Read more
Lightning throttle Buffalo in home finale. BUF-4TB-7 Jonas Johansson allowed four goals on 25 shots for the win. Two of those were garbage time tallies with the game well in hand. First Period16:35 TB Guentzel (39), (Hagel, Cirelli)19:37 BUF Kulich (15), (Thompson)19:52 BUF Clifton (1), (Krebs, Quinn) Second Period3:02 TB McDonagh (4), (Hagel, Cirelli)6:34 TB … Read more
Syracuse misses the clinch by an eyelash. LAV-2SYR-1 Brandon Halverson allowed two goals on 23 shots for the loss. First Period7:34 LAV Kidney (4), (Beck, Mesar)17:56 LAV Condotta (4), (Simoneau, Davidson) Second Period7:15 SYR Allard (7), (Duke, Pouliot) Third PeriodNO SCORING Tristan Allard was the game’s second star. The Crunch outshot the division leading Rocket … Read more
Lightning fumble another home point as division title hopes continue to dim. DET-4TB-3 (OT) Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed four goals on 26 shots for the loss. First Period1:01 TB Cirelli (27), (Hagel, Raddysh) Second Period4:07 DET Kane (21), (unassisted)16:37 DET Motte (4), (Holl, Lagesson)17:52 TB Goncalves (7), (unassisted) Third Period1:38 TB Goncalves (8), (Hagel, Cirelli)12:59 DET … Read more
Crunch grind out another critical win. Clip magic number to two. LV-1SYR-2 Ryan Fanti allowed one goal on 21 shots for the victory. In six appearances he’s now 2-1-0 with a 1.33 GAA and crazy .950 sv%. Listed at 6’3″ 199 lbs, he fits the standard size class the Lightning like in their netminders, and … Read more
Slow start condemns Lightning’s division title dreams. TOR-4TB-3 (OT) Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed four goals on 31 shots for the OT loss. First Period1:13 TOR Marner (25), (Matthews)3:33 TOR Knies (27), (Matthews, Marner)18:58 TB Perbix (6), (Cirelli, Hagel) Second PeriodNO SCORING Third Period0:50 TB Bjorkstrand (21), (Kucherov, Hedman)(PP)2:03 TOR Knies (28), (Tavares, Marner)(PP)11:05 TB Hedman (15), … Read more
Max Crozier take Syracuse one step closer to the postseason. SYR-2UTI-1 (OT) Brandon Halverson allowed one goal on 23 shots for the victory. First Period11:36 SYR Groshev (6), (Allard, Angello) Second Period10:31 UTI Parent (15), (Schmelzer, Willman) Third PeriodNO SCORING Overtime0:38 SYR Crozier (9), (Sheary) Crozier and Halverson were the game’s first and second stars. … Read more
Vasiy’s better. TB-5NYR-1 Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed one goal on 40 shots for the victory and just about single handedly dirt-napped what little playoff hopes the Rangers had left. First Period13:09 TB Kucherov (34), (Point, Guentzel)(PP)13:45 TB Gourde (7), (Goncalves, Hedman)14:54 TB Point (40), (Guentzel, Kucherov)(PP) Second Period3:16 NYR Zibanejad (17), (Panarin, Miller)(PP) Third Period15:40 TB … Read more
Lightning road shakiness continues. TB-2BUF-3 (SO) Jonas Johansson allowed two goals on 38 shots before allowing two of three to convert on penalties for the SO loss. He was the only reason they got to the Shootout, so I’m not going to grade him too harshly. First PeriodNO SCORING Second Period1:35 TB Point (39), (Kucherov)4:47 … Read more
Crunch all alone in third in North Division after big road win. SYR-3TOR-2 (SO) Brandon Halverson allowed two goals on 24 shots before stopping all four players he saw in the penalty shot session for the SO win. Toronto got to Halverson early in the First Period and at the very tail end of the … Read more