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 Steven Stamkos netted his 12th goal to pull into a three-way tie
with New York's Rick Nash and Dallas' Tyler Seguin for the league
lead. Stamkos added two assists, Nikita Kucherov had his seventh
tally in 12 contests and Alex Killorn also scored for the Lightning,
who moved within one point of idle Montreal for the top mark in the
league.
Martin St. Louis scored his sixth goal in eight contests while
facing the club with which he spent parts of 13 seasons before being
acquired by the Rangers for Callahan prior to last season's trade
deadline. New York failed to solve Ben Bishop (15 saves) again and
fell for the seventh time in nine outings (2-3-4).
 After St. Louis was denied on a partial breakaway, Tampa Bay
benefited from quick diagonal passes by Tyler Johnson and Ondrej
Palat before Kucherov's wrist shot trickled past Henrik Lundqvist
(25 saves) at 6:50 of the first period. The Lightning doubled the
advantage 7 1/2 minutes later as Stamkos stickhandled around Carl
Hagelin before feeding Callahan, who pushed defenseman Dan Girardi
before converting from the right doorstep.
St. Louis scored a power-play goal as his attempted centering feed
caromed off the stick of Tampa Bay defenseman Jason Garrison and
into the net just 32 seconds into the middle session. Stamkos scored
on a partial breakaway with 5:52 remaining in the session, Killorn
tallied from the right circle at 18:42 and Stamkos stripped
defenseman Marc Staal before setting up Callahan in front with 2:51
left in the third.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: Tampa Bay D Anton Stralman blocked a team-high five
shots and C Brian Boyle logged 14:01 in their respective returns to
Madison Square Garden. Stralman signed a five-year, $20.5 million
deal and Boyle inked a three-year, $9.4 million pact in the
offseason. ... Callahan was drafted by the Rangers in 2004 and named
their captain prior to the 2011-12 campaign before signing a
six-year, $34.8 million deal with the Lightning in the summer. ...
Lightning C Valtteri Filppula, Palat and Johnson each had two
assists. ... Stamkos has scored four goals and set up five others
during his six-game point streak.
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