Tampa Bay Lightning vs Dallas Stars
Playoffs · Wednesday, September 23, 2020 · Rogers Place
NBCSN · CBC · SN · TVAS
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 5–2 on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at Rogers Place. The Lightning outshot the Stars 32–24.
Goals came from Nikita Kucherov, Steven Stamkos, Jason Dickinson, Victor Hedman, Brayden Point, Ondrej Palat and Miro Heiskanen.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves on 24 shots for the win; Anton Khudobin stopped 24 of 29.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Nikita Kucherov (7)Unassisted1–005:33 TBL
Steven Stamkos (1)Victor Hedman (9), Jan Rutta (1)2–006:58 TBL
Jason Dickinson (2)Roope Hintz (11)2–111:19 DAL ·
2nd period
Victor Hedman (10)Anthony Cirelli (5), Ondrej Palat (6)3–100:54 TBL · 
Brayden Point (11)Nikita Kucherov (23), Victor Hedman (10)4–112:02 TBL
Ondrej Palat (10)Brayden Point (17), Kevin Shattenkirk (9)5–118:55 TBL
3rd period
Miro Heiskanen (6)Joe Pavelski (6), Andrew Cogliano (2)5–206:49 DAL
Team stats
TBLDAL
3224
45%55%
1/40/4
3626
5459
129
1421
34
Penalties
- 8:13 into the first period
Erik Cernak · tripping2 min - 9:34 into the first period
Joel Kiviranta · interference2 min - 19:37 into the first periodAlexander Radulov · hooking2 min
- 4:31 into the second periodAlexander Radulov · hooking2 min
- 12:43 into the second periodYanni Gourde · interference2 min
- 2:58 into the third periodOndrej Palat · roughing2 min
- 2:58 into the third periodMattias Janmark · roughing2 min
- 3:38 into the third periodJamie Benn · roughing2 min
- 3:38 into the third periodJan Rutta · roughing2 min
- 3:38 into the third periodJamie Benn · misconduct10 min
- 3:38 into the third periodJan Rutta · misconduct10 min
- 9:30 into the third periodKevin Shattenkirk · slashing2 min
- 12:41 into the third periodMikhail Sergachev · tripping2 min
- 18:05 into the third periodJoe Pavelski · cross checking2 min
- 18:05 into the third periodCedric Paquette · roughing2 min
- 18:05 into the third periodJoe Pavelski · roughing2 min
- 18:05 into the third periodBarclay Goodrow · roughing2 min
- 18:05 into the third periodPatrick Maroon · misconduct10 min
- 18:05 into the third periodJason Dickinson · roughing2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 77Victor HedmanD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 21:29 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 15:49 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 16:05 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 16:38 |
| 71Anthony CirelliC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:58 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 02:47 |
| 22Kevin ShattenkirkD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21:46 |
| 44Jan RuttaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 11:33 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:07 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 09:12 |
| 14Patrick MaroonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 11:11 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 20:22 |
| 19Barclay GoodrowC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:09 |
| 20Blake ColemanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:18 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:42 |
| 27Ryan McDonaghD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 21:54 |
| 81Erik CernakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:50 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Curtis McElhinneyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 24 | 2 | .917 |
Dallas Stars
| 11Andrew CoglianoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:30 |
| 16Joe PavelskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:43 |
| 18Jason DickinsonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:53 |
| 24Roope HintzL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15:41 |
| 4Miro HeiskanenD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 23:07 |
| 10Corey PerryR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:53 |
| 13Mattias JanmarkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 17:17 |
| 14Jamie BennL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 11:53 |
| 17Nick CaamanoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:31 |
| 25Joel KivirantaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:01 |
| 34Denis GurianovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 12:23 |
| 47Alexander RadulovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:49 |
| 91Tyler SeguinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 21:09 |
| 2Jamie OleksiakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:09 |
| 3John KlingbergD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 20:42 |
| 5Andrej SekeraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:00 |
| 23Esa LindellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 19:43 |
| 39Joel HanleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Jake OettingerG | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | |
| 35Anton KhudobinG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |