"This was a solid effort in a back-to-back situation,” said Stamkos, referring to Tampa's 4-1 win in Toronto the night before."Except for a bit of a letdown in the third period we were on top of them They have some talented players and that’s going to happen.Nikita KucherovThere were frequent scrums and Slafkovsky said that was the result of the Canadiens trying to match the Lightning’s intensity.
"They’re a playoff team and I’ve said many times we want to play playoff hockey, so we’re going to do all the scrums and stuff,” said Slafkovsky."That’s what we’re trying to get better at and I feel like the closer we get to a playoff spot or even now, just building up, the games will be intense and we want to fight and win the physical part of the game, and then also obviously win on the board.
"He obviously likes playing in this building," said Lightning coach Jon Cooper. “When we lost Vasilevskiy for 25 games at the beginning on the season, people expected us to go out and get a goalie but we had faith in Tommy and left with an upper-body injury early in the first period after he was driven into the end boards by a hard check from Kucherov. There was no penalty on the play.
Stamkos snapped a 2-2 tie with his first goal of the night at 7:58 of the second period and Paul scored his second goal of the game 74 seconds later
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