The Tampa Bay Lightning played against the Ottawa Senators at the Amalie Arena on Monday, February 19th. Ottawa handed the Lightning their second-straight loss... Mathieu Joseph scored twice in the 4-2 win.
Senators lineup against the Lightning:
Greig - Norris - Batherson
Joseph - Stutzle - Giroux
Tkachuk - Pinto - Tarasenko
Kubalik - Kastelic - Kelly
Sanderson - Zub
Chabot - Bernard-Docker
Chychrun - Brannstrom
Forsberg
Korpisalo
Lightning lineup against the Senators:
Stamkos - Point - Kucherov
Hagel - Cirelli - Paul
Eyssimont - Motte - Sheary
Barre-Boulet - Glendening - Chaffee
Hedman - Raddysh
de Haan - Cernak
Lilleberg - Perbix
Vasilevskiy
At 9:15 of the first period, Tim Stutzle opened the scoring and gave the Senators a 1-0 lead. Before he beat Andrei Vasilevskiy short side, Stutzle made a move around Emil Martinsen Lilleberg alongside the left boards and then toe-dragged Darren Raddysh near the hash marks. Mathieu Joseph pushed it 2-0 with 6:25 remaining in the first frame. Joseph scored his ninth goal of the season on a 2-on-1, finishing a pass from Claude Giroux.
Mathieu Joseph struck his second of the night and his tenth of the season to make it a three-nothing lead for Ottawa. He skated in on a breakaway, then got the puck past Andrei Vasilevskiy blocker side after he had stolen the puck at the defensive blue line from Steven Stamkos. Getting Tampa Bay on the board, Mitchell Chaffee scored at 3:05 of the middle frame. He scored near the right post after a pass by Nick Perbix from behind the net deflected out front, off Jakob Chychrun's stick.
Vladimir Tarasenko put Ottawa up at 4-1 early into the third period at 15:59. On a 2-on-1, Tarasenko buried the rebound of a shot from Brady Tkachuk into an open net. Just 35 seconds later, Brayden Point nets one to cut it 4-2 and recorded his 28th goal of the season. He scored off a centering pass from Brandon Hagel.
Mitchell Chaffee on Tampa Bay's 4-2 loss: "I think we started how we wanted to, then we had a little slump in the middle and it cost us a little bit. I thought we got back to it later in the game. In this league, you take a little bit of time off and they're going to score a few goals," - "They transitioned very well. It proves that you need to be placing pucks behind them... I thought there were spurts in the game where we needed to get back to that."
Tim Stutzle on Ottawa's win in Tampa Bay: "It was big. We know what they're capable of doing out there, especially that big line. I think we played really well tonight and played on the defensive side... Great win tonight."
Notes:
- Nikita Kucherov played his 700th NHL career game. He was named the sixth player in team history to have achieved this milestone with all games as a player of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
- Tim Stutzle had a goal and an assist... Anton Forsberg made 23 saves for Ottawa.
- Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves for Tampa Bay
- Mathieu Joseph has scored four goals against the Tampa Bay Lightning (his former team) in five games.
*All photos used by the Tampa Bay Lightning used with permission*
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