Brayden Point recorded his second career hat trick, Nikita Kucherov totaled five points and the Tampa Bay Lightning won their first road game, 6-4, over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.
Point also had an assist for a four-point night, while Kucherov potted a goal and dished out four helpers as the Lightning moved to 1-3-1 away from home.
Victor Hedman and Michael Eyssimont had goals, and goaltender Jonas Johansson allowed four in on 28 shots.
Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk posted two goals and an assist, and Claude Giroux and Drake Batherson found the net. However, the Senators lost for the fifth time in six games (1-5-0).
Goalie Joonas Korpisalo stopped 17 of 20 shots before being pulled early in the second period. Anton Forsberg made 14 saves in relief.
A 2020 second-round pick by Ottawa, center Roby Jarventie made his NHL debut and logged 6:38 of ice time.
Tampa Bay owned the momentum through the first 12 minutes, but the home side managed to take a 1-0 lead at 12:58.
After being knocked into the bench of his former club, ex-Lightning forward Mathieu Joseph skated above the right circle, got a look and fired a shot that Tkachuk deflected in.
However, Hedman knotted it at 1-all when he found a bouncing pass from Kucherov for his second goal of the season at 17:05.
Just 32 seconds into the second, Point bolted in and buried a goal from the bottom of the right circle for Tampa Bay’s first lead.
On a strong rush, Eyssimont lofted one while falling to the ice and beat Korpisalo for this third marker at 4:57. That goal chased Korpisalo in favor of Forsberg.
Point notched his second marker of the period and the team’s third when he jabbed at a puck around Forsberg with 1:45 left in the frame for a commanding 4-1 lead.
Early in the third, Giroux cut it to 4-2 with his third goal, a one-timer from the high slot, but Point completed the hat trick with a power-play tally at 9:38.
Tkachuk netted his second on the power play and eighth overall at 11:08, but Kucherov popped in his seventh just 16 seconds later for a 6-3 lead.
The scoring outburst continued when Batherson tallied at 12:14 — the period’s fifth and final goal.
–Field Level Media
