{"id":446258,"date":"2026-02-05T02:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T02:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:30:43","slug":"lightnings-historic-four-goal-comeback-stuns-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446258\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning’s historic four-goal comeback stuns Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Nikita Kucherov scored the tying goal in the third period, Jake Guentzel scored the only goal in the shootout, and the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied from a four-goal deficit to beat the Boston Bruins 6-5 in front of 64,617 fans at an NHL Stadium Series game at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n

Kucherov finished with a goal and three assists, Brandon Hagel had a goal and two assists, while Oliver Bjorkstrand, Darren Raddysh and Nick Paul all scored power-play goals after Tampa Bay fell behind 5-1 in the second period.<\/p>\n

Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 29 saves.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay\u2019s four-goal comeback is the largest in NHL outdoor game history and the largest comeback victory in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Morgan Geekie had a pair of goals and three points for the Bruins. Viktor Arvidsson, Alex Steeves and Matthew Poitras also scored for Boston, which improved to 11-1-1 in the past 13 games. Charlie McAvoy had a pair of assists while Jeremy Swayman finished with 41 saves.<\/p>\n

The game featured the first goalie fight in outdoor game history when Vasilevskiy and Swayman exchanged blows at center ice in the second period.<\/p>\n

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Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy (88) and Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman (1) fight during the second period of a Stadium Series NHL hockey game Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo\/Chris O’Meara)<\/p>\n

Kucherov capped off Tampa Bay\u2019s rally with a one-timer from the left circle with 8:10 left in the third period.<\/p>\n

With an opening puck drop temperature of 41.8 degrees Fahrenheit (5.44 Celsius), Hagel fired up the crowd with a goal just 11 seconds in \u2014 the fastest goal in NHL outdoor game history and tying a franchise history for fastest goal to start a game.<\/p>\n

The Bruins scored the next five as Steeves, Geekie and Arvidsson all scored within a span of 7:39 to give Boston a 3-1 lead after the first. Poitras scored on a backhander at 2:22 of the second period while Geekie notched his second of the game at 8:18.<\/p>\n

Bjorkstrand scored at 10:28 to make it 5-2.<\/p>\n

The Lightning scored a pair of five-on-three power-play goals 23 seconds apart. Raddysh scored a goal for the fourth consecutive game to set a franchise record for a defenseman. Paul then tapped in a pass from Guentzel to make it 5-4.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Bruins: At Florida on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Lightning: Host Buffalo on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Nikita Kucherov scored the tying goal in the third period, Jake Guentzel scored the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[1250,1249,1251,62,5,189,40,4,43,86,187,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-446258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-lightning","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-news","18":"tag-tampa","19":"tag-tampa-bay","20":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","21":"tag-tampabay","22":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116015676758362275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446258","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=446258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}