In Tampa, the Lighting held a 3-1 lead over the Ottawa Senators in the second period.
Two goals from the Sens in the middle frame knotted the game at 3-3, and with no scoring in the third period, the game went to extra time.
For the Lightning, Anthony Cirelli scored with 19 seconds left in the extra frame for 4-3 win.
“I knew there wasn’t that much time left, so just trying to go for it and lucky to get some space,” Cirelli said. “I saw a little bit of a gap there, I just used my speed, lucky to get by them, and just want to get one on net and still managed to hit the goalie but luckily this one counted.”
Anthony Duclair scored his 19th of the season to tie the game in the middle frame.
“I thought we battled hard,” Senators center Chris Tierney said. “We didn’t have a great start, but the guys came alive in the second half of the first and got back in the game. I thought it was a pretty gutsy effort on a back-to-back, but we’ve got to find a way to get the extra point.”
Mark Borowiecki and Connor Brown also scored for the Senators.
“I thought it was a really gutsy effort for our guys, especially the guys we’re missing on the back end,” Senators coach D.J. Smith said. “We had a lot of guys really dig in.”
Nikita Kucherov, Cedric Paquette and Brayden Point scored for the Lightning in regulation.
“Huge [win]. Points are becoming super important for us right now,” Point said. “This is not the record we want at this point. We fought some adversity and had some huge saves from [Andrei Vasilevskiy], and Tony makes a great play to secure it for us.”
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Marcus Hogberg made 36 saves in the loss.
“I think we battled really hard out there both ways,” Hogberg said. “It is what it is. I don’t know how many shots they blocked, but I love how we played in front of me.”
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