The Tampa Bay Lightning picked up their second win of the round robin seeding tournament on Wednesday with a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins.
Tyler Johnson potted the game-winning goal with 87 seconds left in regulation.
“[Yanni Gourde] and I had a little break there and he made a heck of a play just throwing it at the net,” Johnson said. “Bounce off the pad right to me. Great play by [Gourde] setting that up and I was able to find it.”
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 25 saves to get the win.
“We are where we are now,” Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy said. “We’re just trying to win a hockey game right now, get our game together for 60 minutes. … Would I have rather been No. 1 seed? Absolutely, keep it. That’s not going to happen, so we’ll get ready for Washington and play the best game we can and prepare for the postseason.”
Charlie McAvoy and Chris Wagner were the Bruins’ strikers.
“I think we competed much harder,” Wagner said. “I think that hit and Torey’s (Krug) fight (with Lightning forward Blake Coleman in the first period) kind of got us going. I thought we battled hard in the corners and I thought we had two tough bounces on those first two goals but I thought we competed way better overall for the 60 minutes.”
Brayden Point and Alex Killorn also scored for the Bolts.
“Our [penalty] kill bailed us out there,” Coleman said. “I think in both games we got up to the 2-0 leads and we let the teams back in the games. That’s something we’re aware of and something we’ll harp on I’m sure. Unlike the Washington game we got those big kills and we had a strong response and pushback in the second half of the period.”
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Tuukka Rask made 32 saves in the loss.
“I was seeing the puck well, I was moving well, I had legs, I was tracking the puck, so I’ve got to be happy with that,” Rask said. “That was my first real game in a couple months so I’m pretty happy how I felt.”
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