The Associated Press
TORONTO – Two days after making 85 SAVINGS in five losses in five games, Joonas Korpisalo stopped 36 more shots to help the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-1 on Thursday to tie the series in one game each.
Ryan Murray and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored in the first half for Columbus, two goals scored through Pierre-Luc Dubois. Alexander Wennberg added in the third.
“We all saw him play last season,” Dubois said of Korpisalo. “It’s an All-Star, then he gets injured and then comes back. Another rupture (by coronavirus), but we all know what it is capable of. We all know in the locker room that he’s one of the most productive goalkeepers.” at the NHL, and he feels smart right now.
Nikita Kucherov scored for Lightning and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 stops. The Tampa Bay goalkeeper made saves Tuesday in a 4-3 win in the fourth-longest game in league history.
Both groups seemed to be sluggish at the beginning of Thursday, especially Columbus, who took more than part of the first era to launch an offensive attack.
Kucherov put a carambola in the back forums and fired on Korpisalo’s back to give the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 5:24 a.m. in the game. Columbus tied up when Dubois fed Murray with a better pass to the line of purpose with 7:08 to pass in the first.
The Blue Jackets took the lead in Bjorkstrand’s time from the right circle on numerical merit overdue in the first half. Columbus’ goals came here with only six shots in the period.
“We had our mojo a little bit when we ceded the lead,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said.
At the beginning of the third term, Columbus’ defense, Seth Jones, who had 65:06 ice time on Tuesday, the highest since the league began to stick to ice time, chased Barclay Goodrow on a getaway and interrupted what would have been a head-on. Door.
Then, with 8:33 for playing in the match, Wennberg drove from the right and beat Vasilevskiy. Korpisalo then resisted the last 3:41 of a Lightning 6-on-5 attack.
“I don’t think we’re frustrated at all,” said The Tampa Bay Middle, Anthony Cirelli. “We send disks to the network. We look very good. We have to bury our opportunities when we have them.”
Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella downplayed his team’s efforts to back up after wasting a heartbreaker in the first marathon game.
“That’s what we do, ” said Tortorella. “That’s what professionals intend to do. I don’t think it’s anything special. I think it’s the right way to run your business. And I had many opportunities with the ups and downs, especially in the last few weeks, to paint on it. “
Tortorella scored the penalty for Columbus that came after Lightning made the 1-0 in the first half as a turning point.
The Associated Press
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