The Tampa Bay Lightning came back to tie the score twice but never led on Monday in a 4-2 road loss to the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n
Buffalo grabbed a 1-0 lead early in the game on an Alex Tuch shot, but a Nikita Kucherov power-play goal tied the score.<\/p>\n
The teams traded goals from Josh Norris and Jake Guentzel to stay tied before the Sabres reclaimed the lead on a tip near the net in the second period.<\/p>\n
Buffalo closed the night with an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n
Guentzel and Darren Raddysh each had two points for the Lightning, which got 25 saves from Andrei Vasilevskiy.<\/p>\n
The Lightning are now 48-23-6 this season and close a back-to-back with Tuesday\u2019s visit to play another divisional opponent in the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary
First period
BUF 1, TBL 0
5:42 Alex Tuch (30) – Bowen Byram, Ryan McLeod
The Sabres were the first team to score thanks to an Alex Tuch shot from the top of the circles.<\/p>\n
BUF 1, TBL 1
11:44 Nikita Kucherov (43) – Jake Guentzel, Darren Raddysh – PP
A power-play goal from Kucherov in the right faceoff circle knotted the game at a goal a side.<\/p>\n
BUF 2, TBL 1
14:04 Josh Norris (11) – Josh Doan, Zach Benson
The Sabres retook their lead on a Josh Norris shot in the right faceoff dot inside the near post.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: BUF 11, TBL 8<\/p>\n
Second period
BUF 2, TBL 2
3:56 Guentzel (37) – Brayden Point, Raddysh
Tampa Bay tied the score again, this time on a top shelf rip by Jake\u00a0Guentzel at the top of the left circle.<\/p>\n
BUF 3, TBL 2
7:37 Jason\u00a0Zucker (23) – Byram, Rasmus Dahlin
Buffalo\u2019s third goal came on a\u00a0netfront redirection by Jason Zucker.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal:\u00a0BUF 13, TBL 8<\/p>\n
Third period
BUF 4, TBL 2
18:06 Jack Quinn (19) –\u00a0Zucker, Ukko Pekka Luukkonen – EN
The Sabres added an empty-net goal for the lone score of the third period.<\/p>\n
Total shots: BUF 29, TBL 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning came back to tie the score twice but never led on Monday in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,5,4,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-544708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-buffalosabres","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sabres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116360959075374627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544708","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=544708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}