Anthony Cirelli’s pair of first-period objectives helped the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning construct a three-goal lead and maintain off the Boston Bruins for a 4-3 victory on Monday afternoon.
Pontus Holmberg had a objective and an help, Yanni Gourde added a objective, and Jonas Johansson made 30 saves for the Lightning, who shook their first 0-2-0 begin beneath coach Jon Cooper.
Tampa Bay’s Gage Goncalves and Jake Guentzel every had two assists.
The Lightning completed 5-for-5 on the penalty kill, with the final coming throughout Johansson’s 10-save third interval.
Casey Mittelstadt, Jordan Harris and Morgan Geekie every scored a objective for the Bruins, who noticed their three-game season-opening win streak come to an finish. Boston’s Joonas Korpisalo stopped 19 photographs.
The Lightning scored 1:09 into the sport as Cirelli tipped dwelling Guentzel’s shot from the suitable facet. Guentzel picked off Boston defenseman Charlie McAvoy at impartial ice and bumped the puck to Goncalves, who made the play with a cross-ice cross.
Cirelli made it 2-0 at 13:16 when he deposited Guentzel’s backhand from behind the objective over Korpisalo’s glove-side shoulder. One other turnover prolonged the Lightning’s zone time earlier than the objective.
After Boston was held scoreless within the first interval for the primary time this season, Tampa Bay prolonged its result in 3-0 on the opening shift of the second interval. Holmberg drove to the online and spun to feed a wide-open Gourde for a tap-in on the 39-second mark.
Mittelstadt responded with Boston’s first objective simply 30 seconds later, scoring a wrist shot from the excessive slot off a powerful rush sequence.
Tampa Bay reestablished a three-goal lead at 3:37 of the second interval when Holmberg banged in a unfastened puck within the crease after Max Crozier centered it from the facet wall.
Harris scored his first as a Bruin at 5:31. After David Pastrnak chipped the puck off the defensive zone wall, Harris beat Johansson with a short-side wrister.
Pavel Zacha’s faceoff win led proper to Geekie for a fast flick of the wrist from the left circle, bringing Boston again inside 4-3 at 11:35.
With Boston skating 6-on-5 within the ultimate minute, Pastrnak blocked Brandon Hagel’s shot at an empty web earlier than Johansson’s key rebound cease on Geekie within the slot preserved the victory.
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