Pittsburgh Penguins vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Tuesday, December 23, 2014 · Amalie Arena
TVAS · ROOT · SUN
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at Amalie Arena. The Penguins outshot the Lightning 29-27.
Tyler Johnson scored a hat trick. Nikita Kucherov, Patric Hornqvist, Chris Kunitz and Kris Letang also scored.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 26 saves on 29 shots for the win; Jeff Zatkoff stopped 16 of 17.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Tyler Johnson (11)Nikita Kucherov (18), Ondrej Palat (12)0–106:54 TBL- Tyler Johnson (12)Ondrej Palat (13), Victor Hedman (11)0–219:56 TBL
2nd period
Nikita Kucherov (14)Matt Carle (6), Valtteri Filppula (19)0–300:52 TBL- Tyler Johnson (13)Nikita Kucherov (19), Ondrej Palat (14)0–402:37 TBL
Patric Hornqvist (13)Rob Klinkhammer (2)1–410:15 PIT
3rd period
Chris Kunitz (10)Evgeni Malkin (24)2–409:55 PIT
Kris Letang (8)Patric Hornqvist (16), Evgeni Malkin (25)3–418:29 PIT
Team stats
PITTBL
29Shots on goal27
47%Faceoff %53%
0/2Power play0/4
13Penalty minutes9
22Hits25
14Blocked shots20
15Giveaways11
3Takeaways9
Penalties
- 1st 10:57
Brian Dumoulin · tripping2 min - 1st 11:15
Brett Connolly · interference2 min - 1st 16:06Patric Hornqvist · roughing2 min
- 2nd 00:53Bobby Farnham · fighting5 min
- 2nd 00:53Brenden Morrow · fighting5 min
- 2nd 20:00Tyler Johnson · interference2 min
- 3rd 00:31Patric Hornqvist · tripping2 min
- 3rd 07:46Chris Kunitz · tripping2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 5 | 22:40 |
| 72Patric HornqvistR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 19:37 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 16:40 |
| 20Rob KlinkhammerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15:46 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 24:15 |
| 13Nick SpalingC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 15:58 |
| 25Andrew EbbettC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 11:23 |
| 34Bobby FarnhamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 07:35 |
| 36Bryan RustR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 15:53 |
| 46Dominik UherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 07:17 |
| 57Marcel GocC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 16:24 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19:57 |
| 4Rob ScuderiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:21 |
| 6Scott HarringtonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 22:37 |
| 8Brian DumoulinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:55 |
| 44Taylor ChorneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 04:58 |
| 47Simon DespresD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 18:27 |
| 51Derrick PouliotD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:40 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | 10 | 7 | 3 | .700 | 20:52 | |
| 37Jeff ZatkoffG | L | 17 | 16 | 1 | .941 | 36:45 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 4 | 16:43 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 4 | 16:05 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 3 | 14:43 |
| 51Valtteri FilppulaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 18:29 |
| 25Matt CarleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 21:23 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21:25 |
| 10Brenden MorrowL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:49 |
| 11Brian BoyleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:17 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:29 |
| 14Brett ConnollyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 13:22 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:06 |
| 24Ryan CallahanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 16:27 |
| 27Jonathan DrouinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 13:04 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 3 | 18:39 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 23:45 |
| 7Radko GudasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 18:44 |
| 8Mark BarberioD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:28 |
| 62Andrej SustrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 15:02 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20Evgeni NabokovG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 29 | 26 | 3 | .897 | 60:00 |