RECAP: Blue Jackets 2, Lightning 8

The Tampa Bay Lightning scored three times in the first period and got four more in the third, but it was a goal late in the second that broke the back of the visiting Blue Jackets in their 8-2 loss at Amalie Arena on Saturday.
The Blue Jackets (3-2-0) pulled to within 3-2 on goals by Josh Anderson and Oliver Bjorkstrand before Brayden Point scored the first of his two goals with 45 seconds left in the middle period.
A bounce off the stanchion below the goal line put the puck in front of the Columbus net and Point pounced to make it 4-2. It was the third time in five periods the Blue Jackets allowed a goal in the final minute.

"It's just a kick in the teeth, the fourth goal as far as a bad bounce," Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella said. "We found our game, had them on their heels. The fourth one hurts, then we couldn't stop their power play.

To compound matters, defenseman Zach Werenski was called for slashing Steven Stamkos at the 20:00 mark of the second and the Lightning took advantage when Point added a power-play goal at 1:40 of the third to make it 5-2.
"That's the hard part right there," captain Nick Foligno said. "You battle back in the game, then an unlucky bounce, whatever you want to call it at the end. It just seemed after that we shoot ourselves in the foot with penalty after penalty and then you allow a team to take over."
Tampa Bay, which was 0 for 8 on the power play in its first two games, scored four goals in seven tries, including Alex Killorn at 7:12 of the third to go up 6-2 and J.T. Miller with a second left in the game. Columbus was 0 for 5.
In between those two goals, Nikita Kucherov scored at 13:02 of the third on Sergei Bobrovsky, who made 23 saves but allowed the most goals in his NHL career.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 30 saves for the Lightning (2-1-0).
Victor Hedman, Cedric Paquette and Yanni Gourde gave the Lightning a 3-0 lead in the first although the Blue Jackets almost struck first.
Cam Atkinson hit the post in the opening 30 seconds and the Lightning turned it around with Hedman gliding through the slot to put in his own rebound at the 1:00 mark.
Then, during a Blue Jackets power play, Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman turned his back in front of the open net to block Foligno's shot. The Lightning countered and caught a break when Gourde tripped Pierre-Luc Dubois along the right wall without a call being made.
Gourde fed Paquette for the 2-0 lead at 11:17 just after the penalty expired and Gourde added a power-play goal at 18:37 for the three-goal advantage.
The period was reminiscent of the second period Thursday at Florida when the Panthers struck for three goals.
"It's bad hockey on our part," forward Oliver Bjorkstrand said. "Some games when you have bad periods, the key is to come back strong and make them pay for it."

Columbus had a four-minute power play early in the second when Hedman drew blood with a high stick on Anthony Duclair. The Blue Jackets had only two shots during the man advantage, the same number as Paquette had shorthanded.
Still, the Blue Jackets persisted and were rewarded when Anderson's third of the season pulled the Blue Jackets to within 3-1 at 8:14 of the second as Alex Wennberg had the primary assist on the one-timer.
Bjorkstrand's first point of the season was a great individual effort to make it 3-2 at 15:51. He passed to himself off the left wall to create space then skated in front to score on his own rebound.
Then an unfortunate bounce and penalties doomed the Blue Jackets.
"We climbed back in that game and we needed to be able to keep going with the same momentum we had in the second," defenseman David Savard said.
Once the score got to 5-2, the Blue Jackets didn't handle the pressure well.
"We need something good to happen but sometimes it doesn't happen right away," Foligno said. "You have to wait to find to your turn and your time. We weren't patient enough to wait for it to come to us."