New York Rangers vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Playoffs · Wednesday, May 20, 2015 · Amalie Arena
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Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Rangers 6–5 in overtime on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at Amalie Arena. The Lightning outshot the Rangers 40–28.
Jesper Fast scored twice and Ondrej Palat scored twice. Derick Brassard, Steven Stamkos, Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn, Ryan McDonagh, Dan Boyle and Nikita Kucherov also scored.
Ben Bishop made 23 saves on 28 shots for the win; Henrik Lundqvist stopped 34 of 40.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Derick Brassard (6)Dan Boyle (5), Derek Stepan (6)1–001:02 NYR · 
Jesper Fast (2)Chris Kreider (2), Ryan McDonagh (6)2–009:55 NYR
Steven Stamkos (5)Alex Killorn (8)2–111:07 TBL
2nd period
Ondrej Palat (5)Tyler Johnson (6), Steven Stamkos (9)2–210:32 TBL · 
Tyler Johnson (12)Ondrej Palat (7), Victor Hedman (8)2–313:17 TBL
Alex Killorn (6)Victor Hedman (9)2–417:18 TBL- Jesper Fast (3)Kevin Klein (2), Derek Stepan (7)3–417:47 NYR
3rd period
Ryan McDonagh (3)Kevin Hayes (3), Keith Yandle (5)4–402:28 NYR · - Ondrej Palat (6)Nikita Nesterov (3), Nikita Kucherov (9)4–514:05 TBL
Dan Boyle (3)J.T. Miller (4), Keith Yandle (6)5–518:04 NYR
Overtime
Nikita Kucherov (7)Nikita Nesterov (4)5–603:33 TBL
Team stats
NYRTBL
2840
46%54%
2/41/2
610
3341
1413
1011
68
Penalties
- 0:26 into the first period
Cedric Paquette · roughing2 min - 3:07 into the first period
Dominic Moore · cross checking2 min - 2:18 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 6:37 into the second periodNikita Nesterov · interference2 min
- 10:11 into the second periodDerick Brassard · hooking2 min
- 12:01 into the second periodKeith Yandle · holding2 min
- 12:01 into the second periodBrenden Morrow · tripping2 min
- 1:32 into the third periodAndrej Sustr · tripping2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 19Jesper FastR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 16:40 |
| 21Derek StepanC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | 18:51 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | 18:18 |
| 27Ryan McDonaghD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 3 | 27:07 |
| 93Keith YandleD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 16:15 |
| 10J.T. MillerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:09 |
| 13Kevin HayesR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 13:21 |
| 16Derick BrassardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:18 |
| 20Chris KreiderC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:50 |
| 8Kevin KleinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:17 |
| 15Tanner GlassL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:00 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 15:14 |
| 28Dominic MooreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 14:53 |
| 45James SheppardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 10:33 |
| 61Rick NashL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:18 |
| 62Carl HagelinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:46 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:15 |
| 18Marc StaalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 21:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Henrik LundqvistG | L | 40 | 6 | .850 |
| 33Cam TalbotG | 0 | 0 | – |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 17:02 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 18:42 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 9 | 21:29 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 16:57 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 18:17 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 28:26 |
| 89Nikita NesterovD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 14:14 |
| 10Brenden MorrowL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:48 |
| 11Brian BoyleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:29 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:13 |
| 23JT BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:21 |
| 24Ryan CallahanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:09 |
| 51Valtteri FilppulaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 20:42 |
| 5Jason GarrisonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:38 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 24:03 |
| 25Matt CarleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 01:36 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:55 |
| 62Andrej SustrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:20 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ben BishopG | W | 28 | 5 | .821 |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | 0 | 0 | – |