Tampa Bay Lightning vs New Jersey Devils
Playoffs · Wednesday, April 18, 2018 · Prudential Center
GOLF · SN · TVAS2 · MSG+
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New Jersey Devils 3–1 on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at Prudential Center. The Lightning outshot the Devils 37–28.
Nikita Kucherov scored twice. Kyle Palmieri and J.T. Miller also scored.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves on 28 shots for the win; Cory Schneider stopped 34 of 36.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Kyle Palmieri (1)Will Butcher (2), Taylor Hall (4)0–108:23 NJD · 
J.T. Miller (1)Nikita Kucherov (5), Steven Stamkos (4)1–111:30 TBL
Nikita Kucherov (3)Braydon Coburn (1), J.T. Miller (2)2–115:02 TBL
3rd period
- Nikita Kucherov (4)J.T. Miller (3)3–118:52 TBL ·
Team stats
TBLNJD
3728
41%59%
0/51/6
1412
1925
1010
511
1012
Penalties
- 0:34 into the first period
Taylor Hall · hooking2 min - 7:47 into the first period
Alex Killorn · hooking2 min - 8:12 into the first periodCedric Paquette · tripping2 min
- 16:49 into the first periodAlex Killorn · boarding2 min
- 19:17 into the first periodMiles Wood · roughing2 min
- 19:17 into the first periodBlake Coleman · roughing2 min
- 19:17 into the first periodAnton Stralman · roughing2 min
- 9:42 into the second periodTaylor Hall · tripping2 min
- 11:28 into the second periodNikita Kucherov · holding2 min
- 14:28 into the second periodBrayden Point · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 18:38 into the second periodStefan Noesen · high sticking2 min
- 7:18 into the third periodJ.T. Miller · slashing2 min
- 12:52 into the third periodAndy Greene · tripping2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 10J.T. MillerC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 5 | 18:53 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 7 | 20:28 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 4 | 18:43 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 12:55 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:37 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:47 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 05:34 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:06 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:04 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:59 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:33 |
| 71Anthony CirelliC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:05 |
| 89Cory ConacherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:00 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:41 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:47 |
| 27Ryan McDonaghD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:42 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 27:58 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70Louis DomingueG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 28 | 1 | .964 |
New Jersey Devils
| 9Taylor HallL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 20:17 |
| 21Kyle PalmieriC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 16:52 |
| 8Will ButcherD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21:52 |
| 11Brian BoyleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:28 |
| 13Nico HischierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 16:57 |
| 17Patrick MaroonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:35 |
| 18Drew StaffordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:58 |
| 19Travis ZajacC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:18 |
| 20Blake ColemanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 14:06 |
| 23Stefan NoesenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:30 |
| 37Pavel ZachaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:49 |
| 44Miles WoodL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:51 |
| 90Marcus JohanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:35 |
| 2John MooreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:58 |
| 6Andy GreeneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 21:12 |
| 12Ben LovejoyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:33 |
| 28Damon SeversonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 8 | 20:58 |
| 45Sami VatanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:46 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Keith KinkaidG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Cory SchneiderG | L | 36 | 2 | .944 |