Jake Guentzel scored for the sixth game in a row and also added an assist as the Tampa Bay Lightning won 5-1 against the Seattle Kraken on Saturday night.
Brandon Hagel scored two goals, Brayden Point had a goal and an assist, Nikita Kucherov recorded two assists, and Declan Carlile, called up earlier in the day, scored his first NHL goal. Goaltender Jonas Johansson made 21 saves in his first game since November 29. The Lightning finished their four-game Western road trip with a 3-1-0 record.
Brandon Montour scored for Seattle, which lost for only the second time in regulation in its last seven games (4-2-1). Philipp Grubauer stopped 26 of 30 shots.
Leading 2-1, the Lightning sealed the victory with three goals in the third period.
The first came on the power play at 4:03. Point’s shot from the high slot was deflected by defenseman Will Borgen. The puck floated toward the net and Guentzel tipped it past Grubauer’s pads.
Hagel added an empty-net goal at 16:08, and Carlile scored with a wrist shot from the left faceoff circle at 19:38.
Seattle opened the scoring on the power play at 4:24 of the first period when Montour’s blast from the blue line beat Johansson, who was screened.
During the first TV timeout, Lightning coach Jon Cooper gave a motivating speech to his team, which had been outshot 7-0 until then. The team responded by tying the game soon after.
Tampa Bay dumped the puck into the corner, won the race to it, and sent it back to Nick Perbix at the top of the faceoff circle. Perbix floated the puck toward the net, and Hagel tipped it past Grubauer at 8:16.
The Lightning took the lead at 13:21. Grubauer made a kick save on Darren Raddysh’s shot, but the rebound ended up in the low slot. Point poked the puck between Grubauer’s pads for his 20th goal.
Defenseman Victor Hedman missed his second consecutive game with a lower-body injury, even though he participated in the morning skate. Seattle forward Yanni Gourde, who won two Stanley Cups with Tampa Bay before being picked by the Kraken in the 2021 expansion draft, missed his second straight game with a lower-body injury.
