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10/17 21:13 CDT Kucherov scores with 55 seconds to play as Lighting rally for
4-3 win over Golden Knights
Kucherov scores with 55 seconds to play as Lighting rally for 4-3 win over
Golden Knights
By MARK DIDTLER
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) --- Nikita Kucherov scored the go-ahead goal with less than a
minute to play just 1:27 after Brandon Hagel had tied it, and the Tampa Bay
Lightning rallied to beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 on Thursday night.
Kucherov's second goal of the game with 55 seconds left was his sixth of the
season.
Janis Moser had a goal and two assists for the Lightning, who remain unbeaten
at 3-0-0. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves.
Brayden McNabb, Pavel Dorofeyev and Ivan Barbashev had goals for Vegas. Adin
Hill turned aside 21 shots.
Jack Eichel, with two assists on Thursday, now has 10 points this season in
five games and reached reached double-digit points faster than any other player
in Vegas history. He is the 10th U.S.-born player to accomplish the feat.
After Barbashev put Vegas up 3-2 early in the second, Hagel pulled Tampa Bay
even at 3 with 2:22 remaining in the third.
Kucherov tied it at 2 during a two-on-one with 12.8 seconds left in the first.
Takeaways Golden Knights: The line of Eichel, Barbashev and Mark Stone has combined for eight goals, 19 assists and 27 points through five games. Lightning: Jake Guentzel was the key free-agent signing with Steven Stamkos leaving for Nashville after 16 years with Tampa Bay. Guentzel has fit in nicely on the first line with Kucherov and Brayden Point, and has four assists. Key moment Hill made three saves and the Vegas defenders blocked three shots to keep Tampa Bay from scoring during a 1:10 5-on-3 power play late in the second period. Key stat Kucherov is the second Tampa Bay player to have six goals in the first three games of a season. Chris Kontos held the team record in the Lightning's inaugural 1992-93 season. Up next Vegas plays Saturday night at Florida. Tampa Bay travels to Ottawa on Saturday night. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL |
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