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12/31 18:00 CST Darren Raddysh scores in OT, Lightning beat Ducks 4-3 in coach
Jon Cooper's 1,000th game
Darren Raddysh scores in OT, Lightning beat Ducks 4-3 in coach Jon Cooper's
1,000th game
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) --- Darren Raddysh scored midway through overtime, and the
Tampa Bay Lightning blew three one-goal leads before beating the Anaheim Ducks
4-3 on Wednesday for their fifth consecutive victory.
Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper celebrated his 1,000th regular-season game in charge
with his 595th victory as the longest-tenured bench boss in the NHL. The
Lightning's coach since March 2013 has also led them in 155 playoff games, won
two championships and reached four Stanley Cup Finals.
Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist as the Lightning skated off with a win
in the opener of their three-game California road trip when Raddysh converted a
pass from Brandon Hagel, who had three assists.
J.J. Moser and Brayden Point also scored for Tampa Bay, and Andrei Vasilevskiy
made 24 saves.
Mason McTavish tied it on a power play with 6:58 left in regulation for the
Ducks, who have lost four straight and eight of 10. Jansen Harkins and Beckett
Sennecke also scored, and Lukas Dostal stopped 24 shots as the Ducks earned a
point for only the second time in six games.
Moser opened the scoring in the first period with his first goal since agreeing
to an eight-year, $54 million contract extension last weekend.
Anaheim scored its first two goals off turnovers, with the 19-year-old Sennecke
getting the 12th of his rookie season early in the third period.
Kucherov scored his 18th goal on a cross-ice pass from Hagel during a power
play four minutes later, but the Ducks evened it again when Pavel Mintyukov
made an exceptional play at the blue line to set up McTavish for his 10th goal.
The Ducks announced during the game that forward Frank Vatrano will be out for
about six weeks with a broken shoulder incurred in Anaheim's loss to the Los
Angeles Kings last Saturday.
Up next Lightning: At Los Angeles on Thursday. Ducks: Host Minnesota on Friday. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL |
