With just over 15 seconds left in the third period, Alex Killorn scored to tie the game and Tampa Bay won 5-4 in a shootout over the New Jersey Devils. New Lightning coach Jon Cooper notched his first victory in his NHL debut.
The Lightning pulled even at 4 when Killorn scored from the right circle. Teddy Purcell and Victor Hedman scored for the Bolts in the shootout.
Steven Stamkos scored his league leading 24th and 25th goals this season and added an assist for the Lightning. Nate Thompson had the other Tampa Bay goal on a workmanlike effort. (Photo/Susan Ferlita)
After blowing a two-goal lead, the Andy Greene‘s power-play goal put the Devils up 3-2 with 6:02 left in the second. Ryan Carter‘s short-handed goal made it 4-2 at 2:39 of the third.
Stamkos cut the Lightning deficit to 4-3 on his second goal of the game at 7:11 of the third period.
The Devils took a 2-0 lead in the second when Andrei Loktionov (5:50) and Tom Kostopoulos (6:41) scored 51 seconds apart.
The Lightning tied it at 2 midway through the second on goals by Stamkos (8 minutes) and Thompson (10:26).
Stamkos scored when he swatted a waist-high rebound into the net after Martin Brodeur made a huge save on him. Thompson’s goal came after he got through two New Jersey defenders and had a rebound of his own shot go off his leg and past Brodeur.
Watch the shootout below.
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