In Tampa, Mathieu Joseph scored with 95 seconds left in extra time on Tuesday night, to give the Lightning a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings.
“I thought I probably deserved a penalty there at first, but no call on the play, great move by [Viktor] Arvidsson kind of got me there,” Joseph said of defending the Kings forward. “But the puck went the other way, their [defenseman] played the 2-on-1 pretty good and I think he put it in his own net or something like that.”
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves in the Lightning win.
Tampa improved to 18-6-4.
Drew Doughty and Viktor Arvidsson were the LA strikers.
“You always have to look at the game as a whole,” Los Angeles head coach Todd McLellan said. “We came in the Stanley Cup champs’ building pretty short on the back end, playing a solid 64 minutes, and earned a point.”
LA dropped to 12-10-5.
“I thought we had a chance to win this game,” Los Angeles’ Olli Maatta said. “It’s kind of frustrating to lose that way, but I think there are some good things we can take from this.”
Tampa’s Victor Hedman and Taylor Raddysh hit for goals in regulation.
“We just kind of found a way to squeeze another one out there,” Raddysh said. “You get into overtime there it can go any way with 3-on-3, but the guys have done a pretty good job of sticking with it and you get an opportunity to put it in the net.”
Jonathan Quick made 27 saves in the Kings loss.
