While this is certainly a bitter loss for the Tampa Bay Lightning to swallow, this is certainly not the worst outcome they could have hoped for.
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Ondrej Palat finished off a tic-tac-toe play in 3-on-3 overtime to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning over the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 on Friday night.
I remember all the things that I would look at when I walked in here, and aside from the media contingent being much less for this game than it was in June, it is just kind of a surreal feeling, ” Cooper said.
The Blackhawks won their first game without Duncan Keith as they took down the Panthers 3-2 at the Mad House on Thursday but tonight’s game will prove to be more hard as they welcome Tampa to town.
“I think in the second period we got a little bit away from it, defensively speaking”, Wheeler said. “We come here and we can’t find the back of the net. “(Our) team game was real structured. “It wasn’t as physical as the game (last Sunday), but it was an exciting game”.
In the second period, Crawford needed to stop just four shots.
Notes: Blake Wheeler now has a point in each of the Jets seven games to start the season, tying a franchise record set by Donald Audette back in the 2000-01 season.
Crawford still can be a polarizing figure among Hawks fans even though he has won two Stanley Cups, shared the Jennings Trophy last season with the Canadiens’ Carey Price and won his 150th game as a Hawk to become just the fourth goaltender in team history to win that many. “Every game’s going to be different but with his mindset… nothing’s going to change and we’re not going to change the way we play in front of him – though a few nights he’ll be busier than others”.
The Lightning were back in town Saturday night with the Hawks vanquishing them again on the United Center ice 1-0 in overtime with Crawford back in net fending off the Lightning’s high-powered offense in making, making 21 saves.
The San Jose Sharks, Los Angeles Kings, Dallas Stars and Edmonton Oilers all got better from among the Western Conference teams that did not make the Stanley Cup playoffs last April. Chicago 9-10-11-2-32. Power-play opportunities-Tampa Bay 0 of 4; Chicago 0 of 3.
Winnipeg Jets’ Drew Stafford (12) scores against Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop (30) as Braydon Coburn (55) defends during the second period of an NHL hockey game Friday, October 23, 2015, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The Jets briefly tied the game at 2-2 through Stafford on a partial breakaway.
The lead held up until Wheeler scored his shorthanded goal at 1:17 of the third and then the teams proceeded to tighten their checking and neither club got a clean, clear chance until Ehlers went in alone on Bishop late in the third. “Obviously, we haven’t scored a ton of goals lately, but as we showed tonight, we don’t necessarily have to”.
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Winnipeg outshot the Lightning 36-33.
