Jake Guentzel broke a third-period tie with a goal in his 700th NHL game as the Tampa Bay Lightning closed out their four-game road trip with a 3-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel posted two goals and an assist while Nikita Kucherov added two helpers as the Lightning finished the trip 3-1-0 and improved to 6-1-1 in their last eight. Guentzel added an assist after his game-winning goal for a two-point night.<\/p>\n
Backup goaltender Dennis Hildeby, making a rare start to complete Tampa Bay\u2019s back-to-back set, stopped 28 of 29 shots. Erik Cernak and Anthony Cirelli did not dress for the Lightning after getting hurt in Wednesday\u2019s 8-3 win at Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Playing with assistant Don Granato behind the bench in place of Rick Bowness (illness), Columbus received its goal from Matthew Knies while Jet Greaves made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
The Lightning went ahead 1-0 on a similar goal from the Sabres contest. Just under three minutes in, Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous forced a rebound with a shot from the high slot and Hagel cleaned it up for his 12th tally.<\/p>\n
On the game\u2019s first power play, the Blue Jackets\u2019 Kent Johnson settled down a puck and flipped a pass into the low slot. Knies angled his stick and knotted it at 12:20.<\/p>\n
The matchup took a nasty turn immediately thereafter with back-to-back fights. Tampa Bay\u2019s Scott Sabourin and Mathieu Olivier fought in a heavyweight bout. Two seconds after they went to the box, the Blue Jackets\u2019 Ryan Lomberg took on Jeffrey Viel in a tilt.<\/p>\n
Greaves was at his best in the second with a point-blank save on Hagel in the first five minutes, but Hagel appeared to net his second goal with 4:42 remaining. However, an official review showed the forward scored with a high stick and the goal was disallowed in the scoreless frame.<\/p>\n
Guentzel scored the winner from the left circle as it rolled by Greaves at 1:06 of the third. Hagel tallied for the second time 6 1\/2 minutes later for a 3-1 lead that the Lightning used to close their road swing with two points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Guentzel broke a third-period tie with a goal in his 700th NHL game as the Tampa Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[5,189,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":["post-710433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-hockey","tag-lightning","tag-nhl","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117608294873696992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710433","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=710433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}