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Lightning’s Point Streak Ends With Loss To Sharks
- Updated: January 6, 2019
The Lightning’s point streak came to a screeching halt at San Jose’s hands.
The Sharks continued their high-scoring ways and contained the Lightning in Saturday’s 5-2 win.
Nikita Kucherov’s 11-game point streak also ended, as he finished a minus-four on the night. The silver lining was Mikhail Sergachev’s first goal of the season, but there wasn’t much shine on it.
The Lightning came on strong for the first 10 minutes of the game, with a handful of “here we go” moments. But none of them ended in a goal, just an almost.
Then the Sharks scored twice in 28 seconds, and that took some wind away from the Lightning.
First, Logan Couture struck, catching the Lightning in a line change and then beating goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy five-hole.
Then, Joe Pavelski capitalized on a turnover. Erik Cernak ran into a linesman and lost the puck along the boards. Ryan McDonagh picked it up and sent a blind pass in attempt to clear it. Instead, Brett Burns intercepted the pass and fed it to Pavelski in front.
Not the Lightning’s best 30 seconds of hockey.
Victor Hedman got one back for the Lightning late in the period. He pinched down low on a delayed penalty and connected on a nice feed from Steven Stamkos.
Evander Kane scored his first of the game early in the second period, a power-play goal from the top of the right circle.
The Lightning responded 30 seconds later as Mikhail Sergachev scored his first of the season. Mathieu Joseph came streaking down the wing to get behind Tim Heed and chipped it to Sergachev, crashing the net.
Kane scored again 5:18 into the third period, a wide-angle shot through Vasilevskiy’s legs. Lukas Radil added one more on a rebound with 7:20 to play.
The Lightning only had three shots in the third period.
Vasilevskiy gave up five goals on 32 shots in the game.
