COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Mason Marchment recorded his third career hat trick, and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat Tampa Bay 8-5 on Saturday night, ending the Lightning’s streak of 15 straight games without a regulation loss.<\/p>\n
Charlie Coyle scored his 200th career goal and added two assists. Adam Fantilli had a goal and two assists, Dmitri Voronkov and Sean Monahan scored, and Zach Werenski added two assists. Jet Greaves stopped 24 shots for Columbus, whose four-goal first period was its highest total in an opening frame since March 15, 2003.<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel scored twice and had an assist, Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists, Anthony Cirelli added a goal and two assists, and Brandon Hagel had two assists. Darren Raddysh also scored, and Jonas Johansson made 23 saves for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n
Erik Cernak left the game after a hit by Mathieu Olivier with 2:15 left in the first period, and Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous left after a blue-line collision at 7:46 of the third.<\/p>\n
Cole Sillinger opened the scoring at 5:47 of the first period, grabbing a neutral-zone turnover, but Tampa Bay tied it 2:01 later when Greaves\u2019 clearing attempt deflected off Isac Lundestrom\u2019s skate and into the net. Guentzel was credited with the goal, extending his point streak to 17 straight games against Columbus.<\/p>\n
Fantilli scored on his own rebound for his first goal in 17 games, dating to Dec. 16.<\/p>\n
Kucherov scored at 3:29 of the second \u2014 his team-leading 26th \u2014 and set up Cirelli\u2019s tying goal at 4:58. Columbus went ahead for good at 9:05 when Marchment scored his second goal, six seconds after leaving the penalty box.<\/p>\n
Werenski assisted on both second-period Blue Jackets goals for his 15th career multiassist period, tying him with Rick Nash for the franchise lead.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Lightning host Utah on Monday.<\/p>\n
Blue Jackets host Los Angeles on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Mason Marchment recorded his third career hat trick, and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[1251,62,5,189,40,4,43,187,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-427349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-lightning","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa","16":"tag-tampa-bay","17":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115955900114058665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}