Kurtis Foster had two goals, Steven Stamkos added his team-high 16th and the Tampa Bay Lightning routed New York 5-1 on Friday night, spoiling Rangers coach John Tortorella's first game against his former team.Tortorella, fired by Tampa Bay following the 2007-08 season, spent seven seasons with the Lightning, leading them to the 2004 Stanley Cup title.Marty St. Louis had three assists, and Steve...
... in Dallas. ... Lightning are 2-0 this season in the second half of back-to-back games. ... RW Marty St. Louis has a six-game scoring streak. ... Dallas is 5-3-4 at home; Tampa Bay is 4-5-3 on the road, but 4-1-2 in the past seven away from home. ... ... Lightning have allowed a league-high tying 14 power-play goals on the road this season entering Friday. ... Dallas, which played at Phoenix...
Filed at 10:30 p.m. ETTAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Kurtis Foster had two goals, Steven Stamkos added his team-high 16th and the routed New York 5-1 on Friday night, spoiling coach John Tortorella's first game against his former team.Tortorella, fired by Tampa Bay following the 2007-08 season, spent seven seasons with the Lightning, leading them to the 2004 Stanley Cup title.Marty St. Louis had three...
... 2004 Stanley Cup title.Kurtis Foster had two goals, Steven Stamkos added his team-high 16th, and Marty St. Louis had three assists. Steve Downie and Paul Szczechura also scored, and Mike Smith made 26 saves, allowing only Ryan Callahan's late third-period goal."Smitty's played well for us," Lightning coach Rick Tocchet said. "He's really squaring the puck, and when he's quiet, he's really...
... on pace for around 240 this year... that should make you go hmmmm. With three assists last night Marty St. Louis continues his hot start. He's picked up a point in all but three games this season and has 24 points in 21 games... they don't get much more consistent than Mighty Mite. One measly assist is all Vic Hedman has to show for his last 15 games and he's really not adding that much...
Bolts end road trip on high note with OT winBy ERIK ERLENDSSONeerlendsson@tampatrib.comATLANTA - Staring at the final stop of an eight-day, four-game road trip and a tank that looked empty the night before, the Lightning found enough octane to come away with a 4-3 overtime victory against Atlanta on Sunday.Steven Stamkos scored the game-winner 1:52 into the extra session while Marty St. Louis...
... make sure we are being honest with our performance and not get just glued in on the result," Marty St. Louis said. "You can get the result but you play poorly and you can see that slumping, you just have to stop it right away."Tocchet said he has begun to see guys on the bench holding their teammates to that accountability level, such as times when somebody fails to get a puck deep into...
... while contributed a goal and two assists, as both registered season-highs with three points. Marty St. Louis, meanwhile, ended a lengthy goal-scoring drought with his first since goal in over a month to help lead the offense.At the other end of the ice, goaltender Mike Smith stood tall Monday in his first start in two weeks, a game in Philadelphia on Nov. 2 which he was pulled after allowing...
... while contributed a goal and two assists, as both registered season-highs with three points. Marty St. Louis, meanwhile, ended a lengthy goal-scoring drought with his first since goal in over a month to help lead the offense.At the other end of the ice, goaltender Mike Smith stood tall Monday in his first start in two weeks, a game in Philadelphia on Nov. 2 which he was pulled after allowing...
... and left wing Ryan Malone. The rest of the team - which includes top scorers Vinny Lecavalier, Marty St. Louis and Alex Tanguay - had accounted for 19 goals. That's an astounding 56.8 percent of Tampa Bay's goal production coming from two players.And no other team comes close to that kind of one-sided goal production. While San Jose's Dany Heatley and Patrick Marleau lead the league as a...
... the Ducks.On Monday, however, Tampa Bay received season-high three-point nights from and while Marty St. Louis broke a 12-game goal scoring drought. It marked just the second time this season that neither Malone nor Stamkos scored a goal.Should three of the Lightning's top offensive threats begin to produce on a more consistent basis, perhaps Monday's output could be seen as the turning...
... as both registered season-highs with three points, in a 4-1 victory against Phoenix at Arena. Marty St. Louis, meanwhile, ended a lengthy goal-scoring drought with his first goal in more than a month.At the other end of the ice, goaltender Mike Smith stood strong in his first start since Nov. 2, a game in which he was pulled after allowing five goals on 18 shots in a loss at Philadelphia....
... is 2-4 in its past six. ... Lightning are 2-4-2 on the road and have been outscored 30-15. ... RW Marty St. Louis has not scored a goal in 12 games. ... Tampa Bay is 12-12 all-time against Coyotes. ... C has six goals and 12 points in 12 games against Phoenix. ... C has 11 goals and 16 points in the past 13 games. ... LW has goals in three consecutive games. ... G has started five consecutive...
from Damian Cristodero of the St. Petersburg Times, Captain Vinny Lecavalier, who had a season-low 16:06 of ice time, and Todd Fedoruk were minus-3. Marty St. Louis and Alex Tanguay had one shot each, and the team had one shot on two power-play chances. The defense at times seemed mesmerized by the puck, allowing Flyers players to stand unchallenged in front of the net. And no one seemed prepared...
