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Steven Stamkos and Brayden Point each added a goal and an
assist. Nick Paul had three assists and Nikita Kucherov had two
assists for the Lightning (43-18-6).
Traded by Chicago to the Lightning last month, Brandon Hagel
scored into an empty net on Colton's assist with 19 seconds
remaining. Andrei Vasilevskiy produced his NHL-best 35th win by
stopping 21 shots.
Tampa Bay improved to 3-7-0 on the front end of back-to-back
contests and is 21-6-4 on home ice. It is also 17-1-1 in its
last 19 matchups with Chicago (24-35-10.
The club's Jon Cooper, who made his Lightning head coaching
debut on March 29, 2013, became the 49th NHL bench boss to lead
his 700th game.
The visitors got goals from Calvin de Haan and Alex DeBrincat.
Workhorse goalie Kevin Lankinen made 38 saves for Chicago, which
lost its fourth straight game (0-3-1) and is 3-6-3 in the second
of back-to-back tilts.
In his return to his old arena, Tyler Johnson -- a Lightning
member from 2012 to 2021 -- was honored by the franchise with a
video tribute on the stadium video board.
In their first of 11 April home games, the Lightning peppered
Lankinen with nine shots in the first five minutes before
Stamkos capitalized.
After a strong first power play, they went up 1-0 at 6:11 when
Kucherov fed a pass into the slot to Point, who backhanded a
pass that Stamkos one-timed for his team-leading 31st goal.
Four minutes later, after the home side's second power play
expired, Kucherov cleverly faked a shot and fed Point for his
26th tally.
Blanked 4-0 by the Panthers in Florida on Thursday, Chicago got
on the board at 12:11 when de Haan's long snap shot found its
way in for the defenseman's third goal.
On Chicago's second man advantage, DeBrincat squared the match
at 2-all with his 39th goal by tallying from the low slot at
17:21.
In the second, Colton broke the tie with a rebound to put Tampa
Bay up at 6:12. Six minutes later, he netted his 14th on a
blind, between-the-legs pass from Paul for a 4-2 lead.
Vasilevskiy (35-14-4) denied three shots in the third to raise
his spotless career mark to 13-0-0 against the Blackhawks.
--Field Level Media
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