OTTAWA, Ontario — Brady Tkachuk had his second two-goal recreation because the Ottawa Senators beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 on Sunday night time.
Mathieu Joseph, Vladimir Tarasenko and Tim Stützle additionally scored, whereas Joonas Korpisalo stopped 22 photographs to get his first win with the Senators, who gained received their second victory in two nights.
“Two games of playing our type of hockey,” Tkachuk stated. “That’s just been our goal. We don’t care about wins or losses, it’s just how quickly we get to our game. I think we’ve shown that we’re starting to find it now, and I think we’re going to keep building on it.”
Anthony Cirelli and Tanner Jeannot every scored for the Lightning, and Matt Tomkins had 33 saves in his NHL debut.
Both groups had performed Saturday with the Senators beating Philadelphia 5-2, whereas Tampa Bay fell 6-4 to Detroit.
Leading 3-2, Tkachuk was capable of give the Senators some respiratory room halfway by means of the third interval when he beat Darren Raddysh in a race and scored five-hole on Tomkins. Stützle added an empty-net purpose, with Korpisalo selecting up the secondary help.
PHOTOS: Brady Tkachuk scores 2 once more as Senators beat Lightning 5-2
“Winning is exciting,” Tarasenko stated. “We had a lot of talks before the season. When you win, everything is different. Like, the mood is different, you know, the atmosphere and confidence level.”
Ottawa outshot Tampa Bay 17-3 within the first interval, scoring the opening purpose for the third straight recreation when Tarasenko received a backhanded cross from Ridly Greig and beat Tomkins from down low 7:02 into the sport.
“People are going to sit there and look at the first period and say oh my god, they just have 17- 3 or whatever it was,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper stated, “but we’re looking at chances that actually have a chance of going into the net and pucks I guess directed at the net that have a chance, but we didn’t feel like we gave them a whole lot.”
Tomkins weathered the early onslaught and seemed strong.
“(Tomkins) was unbelievable,” Cirelli stated. “You know from the first puck drop he made huge saves and kept us in that game the whole game. Huge credit to him the way he came in here and he made saves and played really well.”
The Lightning tied it within the opening minute of the second as Cirelli crossed to the entrance of the web uncontested and roofed a shot over Korpisalo.
Midway by means of the interval, Raddysh blocked Tkachuk’s shot and dropped permitting the Senators’ captain to seize the unfastened puck and make it 2-1 at 8:48.
Tampa Bay tied it once more with 7 minutes left within the center interval when Jeannot capitalized on the rebound of a shot by Victor Hedman.
“The two goals they score, we give them tap-ins there,” Ottawa coach D.J. Smith stated. “And that’s hard for a goalie sometimes, but give our guys credit, give the (defense) credit, we came out ready to play, we held the chances down, but certainly we have to manage those big-time breakdowns.”
With just below a minute to play within the second, Tarasenko picked off a drop cross by Tampa Bay’s Nick Perbix and handed it to Joseph, fired it into the highest nook to place Ottawa forward once more.
“It was just a tough goal to give up with a minute left and we had tired D out there and again, they catch a break,” Cooper stated. “You know, they try to pressure the puck in, we received a stick on it and it goes proper to Joseph and it’s within the internet.
“Tkachuk’s goal (Raddysh) blocks it and it goes right on his stick, but we put ourselves in those situations and they capitalized so you know good on them for that.”
MILESTONES
Cooper coached his 800th NHL recreation Sunday. He has a 481-252-67 file. … Ottawa’s Parker Kelly performed in his a hundredth NHL recreation Sunday.
SIDELINED
Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos didn’t play. He is listed day-to-day with a lower-body damage.
SEEING FAMILIAR FACES
Austin Watson returned to Ottawa to face his former group after signing a one-year take care of the Lightning within the offseason.
UP NEXT
Lightning: At Buffalo on Tuesday night time.
Senators: Host Washington on Wednesday night time.
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