Lightning score 6 in win against Ducks

TAMPA -- Ross Colton had a goal and an assist for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 6-1 win against the Anaheim Ducks at Amalie Arena on Tuesday.

Brayden Point scored, and Nick Perbix had three assists for the Lightning (36-17-3), who are 14-0-1 in their past 15 home games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves.
"It took a bit for us to find our legs," Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. "I thought we dug in a little bit, a little bit more net front [presence]. ... I think they opened up some stuff for us and the puck started going in for us."

Ryan Strome scored for the Ducks (17-34-7), who have been outscored 36-15 during a six-game skid (0-5-1), including a 4-3 overtime loss at the Florida Panthers on Monday. Lukas Dostal made 38 saves for the Ducks.
"We're a rebuilding team," Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins said. "We played last night, and we were starting to run out of gas after a really strong first period and we've got to play a perfect game to be in with teams like this right now. We weren't able to sustain the game."
Nicholas Paul gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 7:15 of the second period with a shot from the right face-off circle, and Colton one-timed Mikhail Sergachev's feed from the right circle on a power play to make it 2-0 at 9:48.
"I saw (Lightning radio analyst Phil Esposito) at dinner the other day, and he told me to shoot the puck more," Paul said. "It ended up working."

Anthony Cirelli extended the lead to 3-0 at 10:51 with a backhand after a feed from Perbix, and Zach Bogosian scored his first goal of the season with a slap shot at 13:10 to make it 4-0.
Tampa Bay outshot Anaheim 22-1 in the second period with the Ducks' only shot coming with 1:09 remaining.
"We kind of heard it in the locker room after the first period, saying there were too many turnovers," Colton said. "I think we were feeling their rush and giving them too many chances.
"They have a lot of skilled guys over there and we were giving them chances they didn't deserve. At the start of the second, I thought we dialed it in and played the right way."

Point scored his 200th NHL goal on a power play at 1:06 of the third period to give the Lightning a 5-0 lead, and Corey Perry redirected a feed from Vladislav Namestnikov at 2:23 to make it 6-0.
"It's cool," Point said of his milestone. "It's something you never grow up thinking you're going to do. To do it is pretty cool. I'm getting the puck in good places. [Victor Hedman] hits 500 [assists] and [Steven Stamkos] hits 500 goals, and this. It's a little humbling."
Strome ended Vasilevskiy's shutout at 6:28 for the 6-1 final.
"Unfortunately the way our team is this year, we have to almost play a perfect game to beat a team like this," Strome said. "When they turned it up a notch, we had a tendency to split up rather than come together. Obviously, they're a great team and there are a lot of lessons we can learn from that."
NOTES:Vasilevskiy has won 12 straight starts at home. He set a Lightning record when he won 14 in a row at home from Jan. 13 to April 15, 2021. … Tampa Bay forward Nikita Kucherov had an assist, extending his home point streak to 18 games ... Perry scored his first goal in his fifth game against the Ducks. He had 372 goals with Anaheim from 2006-2019. … It was Strome's first goal since Jan. 6 (18 games).