In Tampa, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 17 saves for the Lightning in a 3-0 win over the Seattle Kraken on Friday. 
It was his second straight shutout.
“Big achievement, I’m proud of it,” he said. “Obviously, I want to thank my teammates for that because I can’t win on my own. It’s great teamwork.”
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare opened the scoring in the first period for a 1-0 lead to the Bolts.
“That’s how we’re winning,” Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said. “So we’re playing D, trying to keep things to the outside, and if things break down, the goalie’s there and everybody’s chipping in. And especially with some of the guys we have out, it’s much needed. It’s been a really solid team effort.”
Tampa improved to 12-4-3.
Ross Colton scored in the middle frame for 2-0 lead.
Seattle dropped to 6-13-1.
“We were a half step behind tonight,” Kraken head coach Dave Hakstol said. “We didn’t create enough pressure in the offensive zone. We needed to be better at winning pucks in both zones.”
Steve Stamkos closed out the scoring in the third period for the 3-0 final.
“They defended well, they skated well, they pushed us to the outside,” Hakstol said. “A lot of times we spent the first half of a shift playing defense, and after that you don’t have much energy left.”
Philipp Grubauer made 23 saves in the Kraken loss.
“We seem to be giving up the first goal a lot,” the Kraken’s Jaden Schwartz said. “We need better starts. We wind up chasing [the game] too much. They broke the puck out too easily. We didn’t do a good job helping each other out.”
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