Lightning score eight in win against Blue Jackets

TAMPA -- Brayden Point had two goals and an assist for the Tampa Bay Lightning in an 8-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Amalie Arena on Saturday.

J.T. Miller had a goal and two assists, Nikita Kucherov and Yanni Gourde each had a goal and an assist, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 30 saves for the Lightning (2-1-0), who scored two goals in their first two games.
Tampa Bay was 4-for-7 on the power play after entering the game 0-for-8.
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"It was nice for the power play to score, first and foremost," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "Could we shoot more pucks? We definitely can. ... But whether you get one or you get eight the goal is to win the game."
Josh Anderson and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves for the Blue Jackets (3-2-0).

"We don't handle momentum swings well when they are going against us," Blue Jackets forward Nick Foligno said. "We needed something good to happen, but sometimes it's not going happen right away. We just weren't patient enough tonight to wait for it to come to us, because we had the tables turned in the second and then you see what a good team does when they smell blood."
Point gave the Lightning a 4-2 lead at 19:15 of the second period when he got the puck off a failed clearing attempt and scored from the slot. He extended the lead to 5-2 with a power-play goal at 1:40 of the third period off a pass from Miller.
"Sometimes the pucks don't go in, sometimes the goalie makes good saves on you," Point said. "But tonight, it was nice to see the puck go in. For a lot of guys, hopefully this will build confidence."
Alex Killorn made it 6-2 with a power-play goal at 7:12. Kucherov scored his first goal of the season at 13:02 to make it 7-2, and Miller scored a power-play goal at 19:59 to make it 8-2.

Victor Hedman gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead 1:00 into the first period when he scored on a rebound off his initial shot at the right post.
"It was a big goal to get us going," Hedman said. "Obviously, it's nice to score more goals than we did against Vancouver (4-1 loss). A lot of the goals were scored around the crease today and we had a strong effort in front of the net."
Cedric Paquette made it 2-0 at 11:17, beating Bobrovsky blocker side from the slot. Gourde extended the lead to 3-0 with the Lightning's first power-play goal of the season at 18:37.
Anderson cut it to 3-1 on a one-timer off a pass from Alex Wennberg at 8:14 of the second period. Bjorkstrand beat Vasilevskiy glove side off his own rebound to make it 3-2 at 15:51.
"It's just a kick in the teeth ... the fourth goal, as far as the bad bounce," Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella said. "We found our game, had them on their heels a bit. The fourth one hurts and then we couldn't stop their power play."

They said it

"You're going to have bad games during the year, but it's definitely no excuse to have a bad game. We weren't good enough tonight. So we've got to learn from our mistakes and not do it again." -- Blue Jackets forward Oliver Bjorkstrand
"Anytime you score in the first ... second shift of the game ... I know the other team is looking up there and saying there's lot of time left. You're going into the game basically up 1-0 and you keep adding to it. We kind of pushed after that." -- Lightning coach Jon Cooper

Need to know

Tampa Bay last scored eight goals in a game against the Florida Panthers on Oct. 30, 2017 (8-5 win). ... Blue Jackets forward Artemi Panarin had 11 shot attempts (five on goal). ... Lightning captain Steven Stamkos has not scored a goal in the past 15 regular-season games. ... Tampa Bay is 14-for-14 on the penalty kill this season.

What's next

Blue Jackets: Host the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; FS-O, NBCSP, NHL.TV)
Lightning: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday (7:30 p.m. ET; SUN, FS-CR, NHL.TV)