The Tampa Bay Lightning dominated the St. Louis Blues with a 6-1 victory. Michael Eyssimont scored the opening goal, followed by goals from Motte, Kucherov, and Fleury. Kucherov had a standout performance with two goals. Vasilevskiy made crucial saves, maintaining a strong defensive performance. The game featured a late power play goal by the Blues, ending Vasilevskiy's shutout bid. The Lightning outshot the Blues and displayed strong even strength numbers throughout the game.
Cooper said Fleury's given the staff reasons to stay in: "Fleury's asset is his skating & he really skated pucks tonight, especially breaking out. I thought that was big for us & his game. Then, for him to get what I found out was his first goal as a Bolt, that was pretty cool."
That’s it from AMALIE Arena. #Bolts back in the win column with a big 6-1 win over the Blues.
final: #tblightning 6, #stlblues 1 ... Faulk scored. That's all.
Vasilevskiy denied Kyrou on a breakaway with a glove save.
#STLBlues end shutout bid with a power play goal with 4:03 remaining as Faulk scores to make it 6-1. #GoBolts
Blues end up with a late power play and spoil Vasilevskiy's shutout with 4:03 left in the third. 6-1.
Nick Paul power-play goal makes it 6-0 #Bolts with 12:07 left in the third. Nice, hard pass from Stamkos and a perfect redirect from Paul in front for his 10th goal of the season.
Buchnevich to the box for the third time tonight. They're gonna start charging him rent. #GoBolts on the power play at the 7:25 mark in the third.
Nick Paul with a well timed poke check, pushes the puck forward and draws a hooking call on Buchnevich (his third of the night) to put #GoBolts on the power play at 7:25
Vasilevskiy seals the post with a right pad save on the #STLBlues power play.
Even strength numbers in the second period with #GoBolts up 5-0 (second period goals from Kucherov and Fleury) Shot attempts: 20-13 St. Louis Shots on goal: 12-9 Blues Scoring chances: 11-4 St. Louis High Danger chances: 2-2 Expected goals #TBLightning 0.55 St. Louis 0.62 https://t.co/M2L54HvHl6
Nikita Kucherov is now up to 22 goals in 32 games this year. Since the team’s first season in 1992-93, there have only been 28 other #Bolts skaters to score that many goals in an entire regular season.
Haydn Fleury getting in on the scoring part with a shot from the point, his first goal of the season, to make it 5-0 with 7:47 left in the second. Binnington pulled for Hofer.
What a night for Haydn Fleury, who already picked up an assist in the first period and now scores his first goal with the #Bolts to make it 5-0 with 7:47 left in the second. Binnington's night is over as Hofer comes in.
Fleury scores for the #Bolts with 7:47 on the clock 5-0 Tampa Bay Lightning
Kucherov steals the puck pushing on the forecheck and finds Jeannot open charging the net, but he's stopped by Binnington.
Power play expires, #GoBolts still lead 4-0; second unit had much more success than the first, since they created scoring chances instead of giving them up 😉
Third or fourth time tonight that Vasilevskiy has had to make a really big save with the #Bolts on the power play.
Back-to-back shorthanded breakaways for the Blues. One shot goes wide. Vasilevskiy fights off the second one and eventually covers. #gobolts
St. Louis just had a 2-on-0 chance, followed up by a 3-on-1 chance while shorthanded, somehow (OK, Vasilevskiy) #GoBolts still lead 4-0
Kucherov scores his second goal of the game and Perbix records his first assist of the game in his 100th NHL game 4-0 Tampa Bay Lightning
Kucherov scores from the top of the right circle, beats Binnington glove side again. #gobolts up 4-0.
Kucherov, again. #Bolts go up 4-0 with 18:24 left in the second. This guy can't be stopped right now.
Nikita Kucherov has two goals tonight. 4-0, Bolts.
On Eyssimont goal: The NHL Situation Room initiated a video review to determine whether #GoBolts' Eyssimont batted the puck into the net with his glove. Video review supported the call on the ice that the puck entered the #STLBlues net in a legal fashion.
Even strength numbers in the first period, with #GoBolts leading 3-0 on goals from Eyssimont, Motte and Kucherov Shot attempts: 19-9 #TBLightning Shots on goal: 13-3 Tampa Bay Scoring chances: 10-3 Tampa Bay High Danger chances: 6-0 TB Expected goals Tampa Bay 0.64 St. Louis 0.15 https://t.co/DUvf1bNlY9
Kucherov makes it 3-0 with a seeing-eye wrister that goes through traffic and squeezes past Binnington under his left armpit gloveside. #Gobolts
#Bolts go to the locker room with the 3-0 lead behind goals from Eyssimont, Motte and Kucherov. TB outshot St. Louis 14-5.
#Bolts make it 3-0 with 13.3 seconds left in the first as Kucherov buries his 21st goal of the year. Nice little pull up move at the Blues blue line before firing a shot through traffic for his 53rd point of the year. Still the only player in the league with 50+ points.
Nikita Kucherov's shot from distance finds its way through traffic. 3-0, Bolts with 13.3 seconds left in the period.
Motte with a wraparound attempt, doesn't go in, but it starts a whole lot of chaos around the net, and after a crowd swats at the puck in the paint, Motte cleans up loose puck from his knees. #GoBolts up 2-0 with 2:50 left in the first.
with 10 minutes gone in this first period, the #Bolts are outshooting the Blues 10-2
Call on the ice is confirmed. Goal stands. Eyssimont puts #GoBolts up 1-0 early.
After a long review, the call on the ice is confirmed on Eyssimont's goal. 1-0, Tampa.
Binnington loses puck trying to clear and it lands on Jeannot's stick charging the net, he lifts a pass back post to Eyssimont, who swats it into the net. #GoBolts up 1-0 at the 2:23 mark in the first.
Jeannot to Eyssimont and he scores the first goal of the game 1-0 Tampa Bay Lightning
#Bolts open the scoring 2:23 into the first period as Jeannot fires a puck to the front of the net that goes off Eyssimont and into the back of the net. Fifth goal of the season for Eyssimont. St. Louis may challenge here.
Mishandle by Jordan Binnington behind the net, and Michael Eyssimont capitalizes. 1-0, Bolts.