The Tampa Bay Lightning fell to the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-1 on Thursday night. Pierre-Edouard Bellemare scored the only goal for the Lightning. Danton Heinen, Sidney Crosby, Brock McGinn, Evgeni Malkin, and Jake Guentzel scored for the Penguins. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 35 of 39 shots while Tristan Jarry stopped 20 of 21. Let’s get into it.
Through and through, the Penguins slapped the Lightning around this evening—especially in the first period. Tampa Bay struggled to do much of anything well for the opening 20 minutes and Pittsburgh pounced on them repeatedly. The first goal by Heinen provides a good microcosm of Tampa Bay’s horrid first period.