TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning prolonged their profitable streak to 5 video games with a 4-1 victory towards the Seattle Kraken on Sunday night time.
Nikita Kucherov, Luke Glendening and Nick Paul scored within the third interval and Brandon Hagel added his third short-handed aim of the season because the Lightning improved to 6-0-1 of their final seven video games.
Shane Wright scored, and Ales Stezka completed with 19 saves in his NHL debut for Seattle.
After a scoreless first interval, Hagel gave the Lightning the lead when he raced up ice to fend off Oliver Bjorkstrand and put a spinning backhander on aim for his league-leading seventh short-handed rating of the season at 9:27 of the second interval.
Kucherov and Glendening scored 1:43 aside within the third interval to present Tampa Bay a 3-0 lead. Wright tipped in a shot by Brandon Montour to chop it 3-1 at 15:24. Paul added an empty-net aim.
Takeaways
Kraken: Seattle fell to 0-9 within the second half of back-to-back video games. … Stezka, a 28-year-old rookie, grew to become the primary goalie to make an NHL debut with the Kraken.
Lightning: Tampa Bay recorded its tenth short-handed aim of the season, second-most within the league behind Florida (12). … Defenseman J.J. Moser returned to the lineup after lacking 28 video games with an undisclosed lower-body damage.
Key second
Tampa Bay was nursing a one-goal lead within the third interval when the Lightning scored off a set faceoff play. Brayden Level pulled a puck off the draw again to Nikita Kucherov, who scored on a fast shot previous Stezka at 11:15 of the third.
Key stat
Tampa Bay improved to 7-0-1 all-time towards Seattle.
Up subsequent
Each groups play Tuesday. Seattle is at St. Louis, whereas Tampa Bay hosts Edmonton.