In Tampa, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves and extended his point streak to 20 games as the Bolts won, 3-2, over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.
“The goalie is playing huge,” Lightning forward Pat Maroon said “[Vasilevskiy] has been unbelievable. He’s making key saves at key moments of the game. Everyone is finding ways to close the house.”
Andrei Vasilevskiy extended point streak to 20 in Lightning win – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Caleb Jones was the only blemish on the scoresheet for Vasilevskiy
“They were a fast team, we battled hard, we had a lot of looks, we only gave up two,” Jones said. “If we put a couple of those in the back of the net, it’s a completely different game.”
Yanni Gourde (shorthanded) and Pat Maroon scored for the Lightning.
“Down the stretch it’s big-body hockey for me,” Maroon said. “Just keep going to the net. I was getting away from that for a bit. I got to the front of the net tonight, got the rebound, saw [Smith] was out and banked it off of him.”
Cedric Paquette added an empty net goal to seal the win.
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Mike Smith made 34 saves in the loss.
“We had lots of compete in our game,” Oilers coach Dave Tippett said. “[Smith] was really strong. We had some chances there that were, kind of around it, but didn’t capitalize on it. Mistakes end up being the dictator of the game and we came out on the short end.”
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