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Ondrej Palat, Gourde and Brayden Point all
connected for goals in the opening period, setting the tone for
Tampa Bay's fourth straight home win, and second straight
overall, while keeping Nashville winless on the road in four
tries.
Stamkos, who also collected an assist, zipped in his fourth goal
from his usual spot -- the left circle -- 42 seconds into the
team's fourth power play at 7:23 of the second period to make it
4-0.
In scoring on the man advantage, the captain moved past former
teammate Marty St. Louis with 301 power-play points to set the
team record.
Gourde added an empty-net goal with 16 seconds left, and
goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed two goals on 28 shots in
his 33rd consecutive start, while moving to 5-1-1.
Eeli Tolvanen scored in his season debut, Mikael Granlund scored
a goal and Juuse Saros stopped 21 of 25 shots in losing to Tampa
Bay in regulation for the first time ever (2-1-1).
Nashville also lost for the fifth time in its past seven games.
After each club killed off a power play in the game's first
seven minutes, Stamkos banked the puck off the boards to create
a two-on-one. After sliding defenseman Roman Josi initially
broke up Stamkos' pass, the puck bounced to Palat.
The left wing backhanded in the puck into the net at 9:13 of the
opening period for a 1-0 advantage. It was the third time Palat
has produced his team's first goal of the game.
Just as Tampa Bay's second man advantage expired, Tyler Johnson
slid a pass to Gourde, who was slicing through the low slot. He
chipped the puck inside the far post for a 2-0 lead at 13:59.
Point and Mathieu Joseph capped the period by passing the puck
to each other on a two-on-zero breakaway, and Point finished off
a buzzer-beater with .4 seconds left for a 3-0 lead.
Without a goal since December of 2018, Tolvanen scored for the
second time in his career when he beat Vasilevskiy on the short
side 2:53 into the third on a crisp pass from Erik Haula from
behind Vasilevskiy. Granlund scored on a rebound at 5:41 of the
final period for Nashville.
--Field Level Media
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