In Dallas, Jamie Benn struck for his second goal of the game in extra time and the Stars defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 3-2 on Monday night.
“We were making plays tonight,” Stars coach Rick Bowness said. “We were moving the puck and we were making good decisions out there at their blue line. When they were backed in and gave us the blue line, we made some pretty good plays”
Ben Bishop got the win for the Stars over Tampa Bay – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Ben Bishop made 23 saves for the win.
Steve Stamkos’ second goal of the game, late in the third period forced the extra session.
“It was a little sloppy, for sure,” Stamkos said of Tampa Bay’s first game since Jan. 17. “Way too many odd-man rushes, and [Vasilevskiy] was huge for us again. I don’t know if it was a little rust from the break, but that’s not the recipe for us to be successful and we haven’t played that way in a while.
“We’ll take the point here, but we need to shore it up.”
Denis Gurianov also scored in regulation.
“We didn’t give up a whole lot,” Bowness said. “I thought we rebounded very well and dominated the second period, and it was an even third. Most of that offense came from good defense. We didn’t give up much, but we created a lot.”
The Lightning were scoreless in four power play chances.
“The power play wasn’t great tonight, and we didn’t generate many high-quality chances,” Brayden Point said. ” They did a good job and give them credit, but it’s on us to work out plays that can generate scoring chances.”
[WATCH: All Lightning vs. Stars highlights]
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 32 saves in the loss that ended his 10-game win streak.
“Give the guys a lot of credit for coming up in the last five minutes, especially during that 6-on-5 with the tying goal,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “It was just turnovers and it was fitting that the game ended on a turnover. We got a point out of it, so we’ll take that to start here.”
You must be logged in to post a comment.