{"id":1381524,"date":"2018-12-08T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/stamkos-has-4-points-lightning-beat-avalanche-7-1\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:32:00","slug":"stamkos-has-4-points-lightning-beat-avalanche-7-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/stamkos-has-4-points-lightning-beat-avalanche-7-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamkos has 4 points, Lightning beat Avalanche 7-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mark Didtler<\/a><\/span> TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning beat one of the Western Conference’s top teams in very convincing fashion.
\nSteven Stamkos had two goals and two assists as the Lightning won their sixth consecutive game, romping over the Colorado Avalanche 7-1 on Saturday night.
\n“It was fun to be a part of,” Stamkos said. “I just thought that we deserved everything that we got today, including some bounces and some breaks. But when you’re on top of the puck like we were tonight, it’s going to be tough for the other team.”
\nStamkos scored twice in the first period and had two second-period assists. It was his franchise-best 13th four-point game.
\nTampa Bay also got two goals from Ondrej Palat, and Louis Domingue made 29 saves. Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn and Anthony Cirelli had the other Lightning goals.
\nNathan MacKinnon had a goal for the Avalanche, who are 10-2-2 over their last 14 games. Semyon Varlamov was pulled midway through the second period after allowing five goals on 23 shots.
\nPhilipp Grubauer replaced Varlamov and gave up two goals on 15 shots.
\n“I don’t think there’s any positive you could take out of this game,” Grubauer said. “We made it easy for them, the best team in the league.”
\nTampa Bay held the high-scoring line of MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Gabriel Landeskog to three points. The trio entered with 48 goals and 124 points.
\n“We weren’t giving them time and space at all,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “When you don’t give them any space, especially the big line, it can be frustrating.”
\nRantanen got his NHL-leading 48th point with an assist that extended his points streak to 11 games (14 assists, 19 points).
\nStamkos opened the scoring from the left circle off a pass through the slot by Nikita Kucherov during a power play 3:05 into the game. Kucherov has 21 assists and 26 points over his last 13 games.
\n“I thought it started with the PP,” Johnson said. “Getting that quick goal, I think we just kept rolling with that.”
\nAfter Stamkos scored on a breakaway backhander at 13:15 of the first, MacKinnon made it 2-1 just 59 seconds later.
\nMacKinnon has 20 goals in 30 games, which ties Joe Sakic’s Colorado team record, set in 1995-96, for the fewest games needed to reach the mark.
\nJohnson put Tampa Bay up 3-1 late in the first.
\nStamkos made a pass from the left circle while falling down to Yanni Gourde, who then set up Killorn’s goal two minutes into the second that put Tampa Bay ahead 4-1.
\nPalat and Cirelli added second-period goals.
\n“We need to be a lot better than we were tonight,” Colorado center Tyson Jost said. “Everybody knows that.”
\nPalat had a power-play goal in the third.
\nNOTES: Stamkos has 67 multi-goal games. \u2026 Injured Tampa Bay G Andrei Vasilevskiy (fractured left foot) and D Anton Stralman (upper body) both took part in the morning skate. Vasilevskiy could return within the next three weeks …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

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TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning beat one of the Western Conference’s top teams in very convincing fashion.
\nSteven Stamkos had two goals and two assists as the Lightning won their sixth consecutive game, romping over the Colorado Avalanche 7-1 on Saturday night.
\n“It was fun to be a part of,” Stamkos said. “I just thought that we deserved everything that we got today, including some bounces and some breaks. But when you’re on top of the puck like we were tonight, it’s going to be tough for the other team.”
\nStamkos scored twice in the first period and had two second-period assists. It was his franchise-best 13th four-point game.
\nTampa Bay also got two goals from Ondrej Palat, and Louis Domingue made 29 saves. Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn and Anthony Cirelli had the other Lightning goals.
\nNathan MacKinnon had a goal for the Avalanche, who are 10-2-2 over their last 14 games. Semyon Varlamov was pulled midway through the second period after allowing five goals on 23 shots.
\nPhilipp Grubauer replaced Varlamov and gave up two goals on 15 shots.
\n“I don’t think there’s any positive you could take out of this game,” Grubauer said. “We made it easy for them, the best team in the league.”
\nTampa Bay held the high-scoring line of MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Gabriel Landeskog to three points. The trio entered with 48 goals and 124 points.
\n“We weren’t giving them time and space at all,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “When you don’t give them any space, especially the big line, it can be frustrating.”
\nRantanen got his NHL-leading 48th point with an assist that extended his points streak to 11 games (14 assists, 19 points).
\nStamkos opened the scoring from the left circle off a pass through the slot by Nikita Kucherov during a power play 3:05 into the game. Kucherov has 21 assists and 26 points over his last 13 games.
\n“I thought it started with the PP,” Johnson said. “Getting that quick goal, I think we just kept rolling with that.”
\nAfter Stamkos scored on a breakaway backhander at 13:15 of the first, MacKinnon made it 2-1 just 59 seconds later.
\nMacKinnon has 20 goals in 30 games, which ties Joe Sakic’s Colorado team record, set in 1995-96, for the fewest games needed to reach the mark.
\nJohnson put Tampa Bay up 3-1 late in the first.
\nStamkos made a pass from the left circle while falling down to Yanni Gourde, who then set up Killorn’s goal two minutes into the second that put Tampa Bay ahead 4-1.
\nPalat and Cirelli added second-period goals.
\n“We need to be a lot better than we were tonight,” Colorado center Tyson Jost said. “Everybody knows that.”
\nPalat had a power-play goal in the third.
\nNOTES: Stamkos has 67 multi-goal games. \u2026 Injured Tampa Bay G Andrei Vasilevskiy (fractured left foot) and D Anton Stralman (upper body) both took part in the morning skate. Vasilevskiy could return within the next three weeks …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1381524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 06:32:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}