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Saturday, February 1, 2014

{allcanada} Thompson gives Lightning OT win in Montreal

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MONTREAL – Nate Thompson scored his second goal of the game with 23.1 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 2-1 win against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday at the Bell Centre.

Victor Hedman set up both of Thompson's goals for the Lightning (32-18-5), who came into the game having suffered back-to-back regulation losses for the first time in nearly two months.

After defending for much of the overtime period and being down 5-0 in shots, Alex Killorn came down the right wing and sent the puck behind the Montreal net. Hedman picked it up off the end boards and sent it out in front to Thompson, who tapped it in the open side for his fifth goal of the season on the Lightning's first shot of the extra period.

Daniel Briere scored in the third period for the Canadiens (29-20-6), who saw their first two-game winning streak of 2014 come to an end.

The Lightning were missing second-line center Valtteri Filppula, who sustained a lower-body injury in a 5-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Thursday. There were also some questions as to whether goaltender Ben Bishop would be able to play after he left the same game with a head injury.

Not only did Bishop play, but he made 28 saves and even got into an altercation with Montreal's Brandon Prust during a television timeout.

Carey Price was outstanding in the Montreal net, making 34 saves with much of the play during regulation taking place in his end of the ice.

The game had a bit of everything.

There was a penalty shot called at 4:41 of the first period when Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov was hooked by Canadiens rookie defenseman Nathan Beaulieu while on a partial breakaway. He was stopped with a pad save from Price.

Then there was the back-and-forth during a television timeout in the second period between Prust and Bishop, which resulted in a scrum that led to offsetting minor penalties to Bishop and Price, 10-minute misconducts to Montreal's George Parros and Tampa Bay's Radko Gudas and a minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct to Prust.

The Lightning took the lead at 5:58 of the second period with a shorthanded goal credited to Thompson when his centering pass to J.T. Brown was tipped past Price by P.K. Subban.

The Canadiens tied it at 7:25 of the third period when Briere took a pass at the left faceoff circle and beat Bishop high with a wrist shot for his ninth goal of the season.

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