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10/09 21:06 CDT Shane Pinto scores tiebreaking goal late in 3rd and Senators
beat Lightning 5-4
Shane Pinto scores tiebreaking goal late in 3rd and Senators beat Lightning 5-4
By ERIK ERLENDSSON
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) --- Shane Pinto scored his second goal of the night late in
the third period to lift the Ottawa Senators to a 5-4 win over the Tampa Bay
Lightning on Thursday in the opener for both clubs.
Dylan Cozens and Artus Zub also scored for the Senators, and Claude Giroux
added an empty-netter. Brady Tkachuk had three assists.
Linus Ullmark stopped 21 shots for Ottawa.
Brayden Point had a goal and two assists for Tampa Bay, which fell to 21-10-2
in season openers. Nikita Kucherov scored twice and Oliver Bjorkstrand had a
power-play goal.
Andrei Vasilevskiy, who played only two periods in the preseason, finished with
29 saves.
Jake Sanderson intercepted a pass at center ice and transitioned up ice quickly
to take the puck to the net, where Pinto punched in a loose puck with 1:47 left
to put the Senators ahead for good at 4-3.
The Lightning jumped on top early as Bjorkstrand, acquired from Seattle at the
trade deadline last season, slid into the slot to receive a pass from Jake
Guentzel and snap a shot past Ullmark with 14:25 left in the first period.
Point made it 2-0 less than 90 seconds later, and Cozens answered with a
power-play goal for Ottawa midway through the period.
Kucherov regained the two-goal advantage for Tampa Bay with 5:14 left in the
first on the Lightning's second power-play goal of the period.
Zub threw a puck toward net on the opening shift of the second that bounced off
the post, then off Vasilevskiy 42 seconds into the period. Pinto converted a
breakaway that tied the game with 4:51 left in the second.
Up next Senators: At Florida on Saturday. Lightning: Host New Jersey on Saturday. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl |
