On the night Martin St. Louis‘ number was retired the Tampa Bay Lightning (20-20-4) played one period and phoned the other two in. Joonas Korpisalo made 31 saves in his first game of the season, Nick Foligno had a go-ahead power-play goal in the third period and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-1 last night.
Jonathan Drouin scored for the Lightning, who have lost five of six. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 28 shots.
The Lightning opened the scoring at 16:18 as Jonathan Drouin netted his 13th of the year, assisted by Valtteri Filppula (21) and Ondrej Palat (13). Drouin scored on a one-timer on the back door off a beautiful feed from Filppula to make it 1-0 Bolts.
According to beat writer Bryan Burns, since December 1, Jonathan Drouin has 10 goals, 11 assists and a 1.11 points per game average, tied for 5th-best PPG in the NHL over that span.
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Columbus tied it up 1-1 with 3:20 to go in second period as Josh Anderson scored his tenth of the season, assisted by David Savard (10).
[protected-iframe id=”0a77a2e0dd95e2964d8c1947083e98dc-114320562-46289989″ info=”https://www.nhl.com/video/embed/anderson-slams-a-rebound-home/t-283282188/c-48354703?autostart=false” width=”540″ height=”360″]Columbus controlled the second period outshooting Tampa Bay 16-6.
With Tyler Johnson in the penalty box for holding, the Blue Jackets went up 2-1 on Nick Foligno‘s 15th goal, a power play goal assisted by Zach Werenski (20) and Alexander Wennberg (20) at 4:29. The puck went off Andrei Vasilevskiy‘s skate and in.
[protected-iframe id=”782096407aaca277fb30c7e139629035-114320562-46289989″ info=”https://www.nhl.com/video/embed/foligno-buries-a-ppg/t-283282188/c-48356503?autostart=false” width=”540″ height=”360″]Boone Jenner scored an empty net goal unassisted at 18:55 to make it 3-1 Columbus.
[protected-iframe id=”ebaf5a3209c46dee81df23f207e11e75-114320562-46289989″ info=”https://www.nhl.com/video/embed/jenners-empty-net-shg/t-283282188/c-48358503?autostart=false” width=”540″ height=”360″]Shots ended up 32-31 in favor of the Lightning. Tampa Bay had 19 shots in the first period. They had 13 more the rest of the game.
Brian Boyle: “We had a good first period. We were pretty ordinary after that.”
Tampa Bay will travel to Los Angeles to take on the Kings on Monday at 4:00 PM, the start of a six game 13 day western road trip.
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