Stamkos has played in 554 National Hockey League games, all with Tampa.
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Miller gave Boston a 1-0 lead 6 minutes into the game, but the Lightning tied it after Zac Rinaldo was sent off for hitting Cedric Paquette in the head against the boards.
An embellishment call against Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara wiped out a potential Boston power play and led to a four-on-four during which Stamkos stole the puck from defenseman Joe Morrow and went in alone on Rask. Komarov has scored a team-best 18 goals but was kept off the scoresheet Saturday while posting a minus-3 rating. 3.
Alex Killorn scored for the second consecutive game as the Killorn-Stamkos-Callahan line continued to roll.
The second power-play score was less about a breakdown, and more about creating traffic in front of the net.
“To know you’re that close to being in the division lead is exciting, so every game is so important”, Killorn said.
It stayed that way until Patrice Bergeron was penalized for interfering with the goalie with 8 minutes gone in the second.
“That’s part of the story tonight: The self-inflicted mistakes that we made, the amount of breakaways and those kind of things”, Bruins coach Claude Julien said. Brad Marchand has posted four goals in four games and 17 in the past 19 contests for Boston, which lost at home and won on the road against the Lightning this season – both in October.
The only other time Stamkos has scored in seven straight games was February 13-March 11, 2010. “So it obviously is just icing on the cake to be producing in those wins, and our line is feeling really good about our game right now”.
A few weeks ago, the narrative for Steven Stamkos being in his hometown of Toronto on Monday during the trade deadline revolved around him potentially ending up elsewhere. Contract talks on an Eriksson extension stalled, and he can become a free agent on July 1. Sunday’s penalty shot goal gave No. 91 goals in six straight games, which ties a career-high for the Tampa captain, and with a chance to set a new career-high in Monday’s tilt against the straight-up terrible Toronto Maple Leafs. Tampa Bay has been a flawless 15-for-15 on the penalty kill over its last five contests after going 6-for-6 on Sunday.2. The Bruins fell to 7-3 when wearing their third uniform….
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There was a scary moment late in the game when Tyler Johnson took a puck off the forehead before skating off under his own power. Cooper said he was being stitched up and was not dazed.
