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Montreal Canadiens Hoodies Authentic , Fla. (AP) Nikita Kucherov helped the Tampa Bay Lightning quickly bounce back from a rare shutout loss.Kucherov scored
twice to lead the Lightning to a 3-1 victory against the Edmonton Oilers on
Sunday. Tampa Bay extended its lead to four points over Boston for the top
overall spot in the Eastern Conference less than 24 hours after a shutout loss
at home to the Bruins.”We weren’t sitting in here pouting,” said Lightning
captain Steven Stamkos, who finished with two assists. ”We thought we had a
decent effort (against Boston) and we knew we wanted to improve on
it.”Kucherov’s fourth multi-goal game of the season extended his lead to four
points in the race for the Art Ross Trophy over Edmonton’s Connor McDavid, who
was held off the scoresheet. McDavid scored four goals against Tampa Bay earlier
this season.”We tried to stay on top of him, have a guy back on him, not give
him too much room,” said Tampa Bay center Brayden Point, who drew the defensive
assignment against McDavid. ”In the first period he had a pretty good chance
kind of out of nothing just by skating around us. After that we did a pretty
good job of just staying on top of him.”Victor Hedman also scored for the
Lightning and Stamkos added two assists.Tampa Bay’s penalty kill was a big area
of improvement as Edmonton came up empty on five power-play chances, including
28 seconds of a two-man advantage with 6:35 left in the third period. Despite 14
shots in total on the power play, nine during three successive chances in the
third
Montreal Canadiens Hats Authentic , the Oilers failed to convert with the man advantage.”We talk a lot about the chances, the shots, the looks we had but
it’s still got to get a goal,” Edmonton head coach Todd McLellan said. ”That’s
been the tale of the tape on the power play. We had (14) shots on goal and a
number of missed attempts or opportunities.”Ty Rattie scored for Edmonton and Al
Montoya finished with 37 saves.Louis Domingue, making his eighth start with
Tampa Bay since being acquired from Arizona, finished with 29 saves and
recovered from allowing a fluke goal 14 seconds in to the game after he fumbled
the puck behind the net that Rattie collected and banked off the Lighting
goaltender.”
