Gourde lifts Lightning over Penguins in OT for eighth straight win - Sportsnet.ca

The Lightning picked up their eighth straight win when Gourde took a cross-ice feed from Brayden Point and ripped the puck over Matt Murray’s right arm. Gourde’s seventh goal of the season created a mob scene near the Pittsburgh net as Tampa Bay improved to 20-2-1 since Dec. 23.

Evgeni Malkin got his 18th goal for Pittsburgh and Murray finished with 36 saves but didn’t get his right arm high enough fast enough to get a piece of Gourde’s winner. Jason Zucker played 15:26 in his debut with Pittsburgh after being acquired in a trade with Minnesota on Monday night. Pittsburgh didn’t exactly give Zucker time to get settled. In the span of 24 hours, he went from playing on the fourth line on a team with fading post-season hopes to serving on the top line with Sidney Crosby for a franchise where reaching the playoffs has been a given for well over a decade.

As persistent as the Penguins have been through the first four-plus months of the season, they haven’t been quite as spectacular as the Lightning. Tampa Bay has been the NHL’s best team since Christmas, a stretch that included a taut victory over Pittsburgh last week and a 2-1 overtime triumph at Columbus on Monday night. The victory over the Blue Jackets offered a small — very small — level of solace after Columbus stunned Tampa Bay in the opening round of the playoffs last spring.

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