Pittsburgh Penguins vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Saturday, October 21, 2017 · Amalie Arena
ATTSN-PT · SUN
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 7–1 on Saturday, October 21, 2017 at Amalie Arena. The Lightning outshot the Penguins 32–29.
Nikita Kucherov scored twice. Steven Stamkos, Yanni Gourde, Brayden Point, Anton Stralman, Mikhail Sergachev and Jake Guentzel also scored.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves on 29 shots for the win; Antti Niemi stopped 25 of 32.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Nikita Kucherov (9)Victor Hedman (3), Steven Stamkos (13)0–101:36 TBL · 
Steven Stamkos (3)Vladislav Namestnikov (6), Nikita Kucherov (6)0–214:16 TBL · 
Yanni Gourde (1)Braydon Coburn (3), Brayden Point (6)0–319:59 TBL
2nd period
Brayden Point (4)Ondrej Palat (2), Yanni Gourde (3)0–400:30 TBL
Anton Stralman (1)Mikhail Sergachev (5)0–505:58 TBL- Nikita Kucherov (10)Steven Stamkos (14), Alex Killorn (7)0–607:12 TBL
3rd period
Mikhail Sergachev (3)Steven Stamkos (15), Vladislav Namestnikov (7)0–710:32 TBL · 
Jake Guentzel (3)Bryan Rust (8), Kris Letang (5)1–718:18 PIT ·
Team stats
PITTBL
2932
57%43%
1/43/5
2210
1815
1916
66
310
Penalties
- 0:57 into the first period
Sidney Crosby · cross checking2 min - 1:36 into the first periodSidney Crosby · misconduct10 min
- 4:11 into the first period
Ondrej Palat · boarding2 min - 13:23 into the first periodKris Letang · slashing2 min
- 1:26 into the second periodGreg McKegg · hooking2 min
- 12:44 into the second periodBraydon Coburn · hooking2 min
- 13:27 into the second periodPhil Kessel · slashing2 min
- 9:07 into the third periodPatric Hornqvist · cross checking2 min
- 11:27 into the third periodRyan Callahan · slashing2 min
- 16:36 into the third periodYanni Gourde · closing hand on puck2 min
- 19:37 into the third periodJake Dotchin · cross checking2 min
- 19:37 into the third periodRyan Reaves · cross checking2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 17Bryan RustR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 18:17 |
| 59Jake GuentzelC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16:31 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 2 | 22:46 |
| 33Greg McKeggC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:47 |
| 34Tom KuhnhacklR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 14:35 |
| 37Carter RowneyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:05 |
| 43Conor ShearyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:28 |
| 62Carl HagelinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15:12 |
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 17:26 |
| 72Patric HornqvistR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | 18:28 |
| 75Ryan ReavesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:32 |
| 81Phil KesselC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:25 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:01 |
| 2Chad RuhwedelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:08 |
| 3Olli MaattaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:12 |
| 4Justin SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:11 |
| 8Brian DumoulinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 20:43 |
| 28Ian ColeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:53 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Matt MurrayG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Antti NiemiG | L | 32 | 7 | .781 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 91Steven StamkosC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +1 | 4 | 18:23 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 6 | 16:03 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 19:14 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 18:24 |
| 90Vladislav NamestnikovC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16:14 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 16:56 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 17:15 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 15:24 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:49 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:35 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 19:13 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:33 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:04 |
| 24Ryan CallahanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 16:06 |
| 40Gabriel DumontC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:18 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:17 |
| 29Slater KoekkoekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:15 |
| 59Jake DotchinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 12:52 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Peter BudajG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 29 | 1 | .966 |