TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Steven Stamkos scored his fourth and fifth objectives of the arrangement and the Tampa Narrows Lightning maintained a strategic distance from disposal with a 6-3 triumph over the Florida Jaguars in Amusement 4 of the first-round playoff matchup Saturday night.
Amusement 5 is Monday night at Florida. As it were four times in 206 tries has an NHL group bounced back from a 3-0 shortage to win a arrangement.
“The chances aren’t incredible being down 3-zip,” Stamkos said. “Three-one, they’re a small superior. And ideally another diversion it’s 3-2 and after that they gotten to be a small superior. That’s how we’re taking it.”
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Stamkos opened the scoring amid the Lightning’s three-goal to begin with period and made a difference ease Florida’s supported weight amid the opening half of the third period with his objective at 9:
34 that gave Tampa Narrows a 5-3 lead. Nicholas Paul included a objective amid a 5-on-3 control play with 3:
38 to go.
Brandon Hagel had two objectives and an help, and Brayden Point included a objective and two helps for the Lightning. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 spares, with Nikita Kucherov and Victor Hedman both getting three helps. Kucherov got to be the fifth NHL player with 10 three-assist diversions.
Defenceman Mikhail Sergachev was a astonish expansion to the Lightning lineup after being out since having surgery on his cleared out leg on Feb. 8 to stabilize a broken tibia and fibula. He had an help.
“The ordinary presentations, all the players names there’s cheers,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “It gets to Vasilevskiy, there’s a enormous cheer. I might not listen the Dad fellow say Vasilevskiy’s title.
“The roar (for Sergachev) fair kept going on and so all the folks on the seat got up. It was a mixing minute and I thought we carry that right into the primary period.”
Florida. Sergei Bobrovsky halted 26 shots. The Jaguars gave up fair one objective amid 5-on-5 play, with two coming when both teams had a player within the penalty box.
“There’s continuously something you’ll be able learn from diversions and we’ll learn 5 on 5 we need to play as much as possible,” Florida middle Aleksander Barkov said.
Stamkos, Hagel and Point scored 6:
13 separated within the to begin with to create it 3-0. Stamkos scored on a control play, whereas Hagel had a short-handed objective.
“We were a small bit slow,” Florida coach Paul Maurice said. “And at that point we had a small issue with a few uncommon group stuff and that’s a formula for a extreme one. We got to remain out of the punishment box.”
Verhaeghe cut it to 3-1 at 4:
17 into the second.
After Hagel and Reinhart exchanged objectives 1:
30 separated halfway through the moment, Ekman-Larsson pulled Florida to 4-3 with his to begin with playoff objective since Aug. 2, 2020, with 5:
27 remaining within the period.
Stamkos got to be the third Tampa Inlet player to reach 100 post-season focuses and moved past Ondrej Palat (48) into solo ownership of moment on the franchise list with 50 objectives.
Tampa Cove is 8-5 (. 615) in potential end diversions, which is the third most elevated winning rate (least two recreations) among NHL groups.