Tampa Bay Lightning vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Saturday, December 16, 2017 · Pepsi Center
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Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Colorado Avalanche 6–5 on Saturday, December 16, 2017 at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche outshot the Lightning 37–31.
Anton Stralman scored twice, Gabriel Landeskog scored a hat trick and Nathan MacKinnon scored twice. Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman, Yanni Gourde and Mikhail Sergachev also scored.
Peter Budaj made 32 saves on 37 shots for the win; Jonathan Bernier stopped 25 of 31.
Three stars
Scoring
2nd period
Nikita Kucherov (23)Victor Hedman (18), Yanni Gourde (12)1–009:11 TBL
Anton Stralman (3)Tyler Johnson (15), Mikhail Sergachev (15)2–009:30 TBL
Victor Hedman (3)Nikita Kucherov (23), Jake Dotchin (4)3–011:22 TBL
Yanni Gourde (10)Alex Killorn (16), Cory Conacher (2)4–013:21 TBL
Gabriel Landeskog (11)Nail Yakupov (4), Nikita Zadorov (3)4–114:16 COL
3rd period
- Anton Stralman (4)Yanni Gourde (13), Brayden Point (17)5–102:29 TBL
- Gabriel Landeskog (12)Tyson Barrie (21), Nathan MacKinnon (23)5–204:58 COL
- Gabriel Landeskog (13)Tyson Barrie (22), Mikko Rantanen (18)5–307:17 COL ·
Nathan MacKinnon (14)Tyson Barrie (23), Gabriel Landeskog (10)5–409:22 COL · 
Mikhail Sergachev (8)Ondrej Palat (14), Anton Stralman (7)6–411:32 TBL- Nathan MacKinnon (15)Nikita Zadorov (4), Gabriel Landeskog (11)6–514:14 COL
Team stats
TBLCOL
3137
43%57%
0/22/6
1621
1614
189
32
32
Penalties
- 2:38 into the first period
Victor Hedman · holding2 min - 11:28 into the first periodBraydon Coburn · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 2:25 into the second periodChris Kunitz · high sticking2 min
- 8:20 into the second period
Blake Comeau · roughing2 min - 8:20 into the second periodCory Conacher · roughing2 min
- 16:57 into the second periodNikita Kucherov · roughing2 min
- 16:57 into the second periodErik Johnson · slashing2 min
- 16:57 into the second periodErik Johnson · boarding5 min
- 16:57 into the second periodErik Johnson · game misconduct10 min
- 6:27 into the third periodTyler Johnson · hooking2 min
- 8:50 into the third periodCedric Paquette · slashing2 min
- 10:08 into the third periodPatrik Nemeth · holding2 min
- 10:16 into the third periodAlex Killorn · tripping2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 15:35 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 19:07 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 16:04 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 25:38 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 15:37 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:21 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:36 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 17:11 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 20:52 |
| 89Cory ConacherC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 08:08 |
| 59Jake DotchinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 3 | 17:37 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:39 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:27 |
| 90Vladislav NamestnikovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:05 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:48 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:53 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:13 |
| 62Andrej SustrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 06:47 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Peter BudajG | W | 37 | 5 | .865 |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Colorado Avalanche
| 92Gabriel LandeskogL | 3 | 2 | 5 | +2 | 5 | 22:00 |
| 29Nathan MacKinnonC | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 21:01 |
| 4Tyson BarrieD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 1 | 22:44 |
| 16Nikita ZadorovD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 19:51 |
| 64Nail YakupovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11:26 |
| 96Mikko RantanenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 19:29 |
| 10Sven AndrighettoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:55 |
| 14Blake ComeauL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 14:59 |
| 17Tyson JostC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:11 |
| 22Colin WilsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:26 |
| 34Carl SoderbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 14:51 |
| 37J.T. CompherL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 21:49 |
| 83Matt NietoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 12:08 |
| 6Erik JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 11:32 |
| 12Patrik NemethD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 15:52 |
| 44Mark BarberioD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 13:45 |
| 49Samuel GirardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 16:30 |
| 54Anton LindholmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 11:14 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Semyon VarlamovG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 45Jonathan BernierG | L | 31 | 6 | .806 |