Vladislav Gavrikov scored 25 seconds into time beyond regulation and the Los Angeles Kings snapped the Tampa Bay Lightning’s five-game profitable streak with a 4-3 victory Saturday night time.
Steven Stamkos scored twice within the closing 4:34 of regulation for Tampa Bay, tying it with 45.8 seconds left whereas the Lightning had a 6-on-5 benefit. However Gavrikov broke in alone on Andrei Vasilevskiy early in OT and buried his sixth aim of the season.
Trevor Moore scored his twenty sixth aim and Mikey Anderson ended his 54-game aim drought as Los Angeles received its season-best fourth straight residence sport by knocking off surging Tampa Bay, which had misplaced simply as soon as in March.
Adrian Kempe had a aim and an help and Cam Talbot made 21 saves for the Kings, who accomplished an ideal three-game homestand with their fifth win in seven video games general.
Brayden Level had a aim and an help and Vasilevskiy stopped 19 photographs for the Lightning, who had received the primary three video games of their five-game West Coast journey by a mixed 14-7.
Stamkos prolonged his factors streak to eight video games when he scored on an influence play. He added the tying slap shot for his twenty ninth aim of the season, capping a chronic stretch of strain by the NHL’s greatest man-advantage group.
NHL scoring chief Nikita Kucherov prolonged his factors streak to 13 video games with the first help on Stamkos’ tying aim.
Los Angeles scored within the first interval when Quinton Byfield intercepted Matt Dumba’s clearing try and Anze Kopitar finally arrange a redirect for Kempe’s twenty second aim.
Level evened it along with his forty first aim of the season on an influence play 5.8 seconds earlier than the primary intermission.
Moore put the Kings again forward early within the second with a rebound tap-in. The aim by Moore — the undrafted Thousand Oaks native who improbably leads the Kings in targets — gave him 49 factors this season, setting a brand new profession excessive.
Anderson scored solely his second aim of the season early within the third interval, holding the puck on an odd-man rush and beating Vasilevskiy cleanly for the sturdy defenseman’s first aim since final Oct. 27.
Stamkos’ power-play aim was his 210th with Tampa Bay, tying Los Angeles’ Luc Robitaille for the third-most in NHL historical past scored for one group.
The sport was performed on the thirtieth anniversary of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL profession record-breaking 802nd aim, which he scored for the Kings on the Discussion board.
UP NEXT
Lightning: At Anaheim on Sunday night time.
Kings: At Vancouver on Monday night time to open a four-game Canadian journey.