The Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday wrapped up a seven-game homestand with a 3-1 victory against the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is now 48-22-6 this season.<\/p>\n
Casey Mittelstadt made it 1-0 Boston with a slot shot 6:47 into the second period before Lightning defenseman Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous tied the game just 2:13 into the third on his own rebound look.<\/p>\n
Bolts defenseman Darren Raddysh\u2019s 21st goal of the season set a new franchise record for goals by a defender in a single season and made it 2-1 Lightning with 5:31 remaining for the game-winner. Nikita Kucherov wrapped the game with an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n
Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 21 saves.<\/p>\n
The Lightning will next kick off a four-game divisional road trip with a 7 p.m. game this Tuesday against the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
None.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 8, BOS 8<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
BOS 1, TBL 0<\/p>\n
6:47 Casey Mittelstadt (15) – Viktor Arvidsson, Pavel Zacha<\/p>\n
Forward Casey Mittelstadt got the Bruins going with his goal from the slot that snuck past the left post.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: BOS 11, TBL 5<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
BOS 1, TBL 1<\/p>\n
2:11 Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous (6) – Oliver Bjorkstrand, Darren Raddysh<\/p>\n
The Lightning notched the tying goal early in the third with defenseman Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous burying his own rebound near the left post.<\/p>\n
TBL 2, BOS 1<\/p>\n
14:29 Darren Raddysh (21) – JJ Moser<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay earned its first lead with Darren Raddysh\u2019s record-breaking score, this one a shot from the right faceoff circle on a rush look.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, BOS 1<\/p>\n
18:27 Nikita Kucherov (42) – Jake Guentzel, Ryan McDonagh – EN<\/p>\n
The night ended with an empty-net goal from Nikita Kucherov.<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 23, BOS 22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday wrapped up a seven-game homestand with a 3-1 victory against the Boston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5105],"tags":[5,189,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-541153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-lightning","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116349170086774960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541153","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=541153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}