Lightning set NHL record with 33 shots on goal in period, top Blackhawks

CHICAGO -- The Tampa Bay Lightning set an NHL record with 33 shots on goal in the second period and extended their point streak to five games with a 6-3 win against the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center on Sunday.

Brayden Point had a goal and two assists, and Nikita Kucherov and Victor Hedman each had a goal and an assist for the Lightning (5-1-1), whose 55 shots on goal were the most in their history; they had 52 against the Florida Panthers on Nov. 18, 2008. Their 33 shots in the second are the most since shots by period became an official statistic in 1997-1998.
"I don't know, I guess it feels good," Lightning forward Tyler Johnson said of setting the record. "It's what we try to do every period. We always try to say get that shot volume. We're getting pucks to the net, we're getting those quality] opportunities. We just have that mentality. We're a good team when we have that."
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Anthony Cirelli, Yanni Gourde and Ryan Callahan also scored for Tampa Bay, which is 4-0-1 in its past five games. Louis Domingue made 33 saves.
Alexandre Fortin, David Kampf and Nick Schmaltz scored for Chicago (4-2-2). Cam Ward made 49 saves, the most by a Blackhawks goalie since Nikolai Khabibulin's 56 against the Detroit Red Wings on April 5, 2007.
"They're a tough team," Ward said. "They have a lot of offensive talent out there. It was tough to contain them. Both teams were coming off of a back-to-back, so we couldn't use that as an excuse. Their speed and their tenacity was hard to contain at times. It's unfortunate, but we'll regroup here and put this one away and get ready for the next one."
Kucherov gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 3:20 of the first period on a breakaway after a pass by Hedman.

Fortin scored on a breakaway for his first NHL goal at 11:40 of the first period to tie the game 1-1.
"It's fun," Fortin said. "I think it would be a little bit more fun to get your first goal [while getting] two points for your team, but I think we just have to [turn the page to the] next chapter and just play and be ready for next game and just as a team be ready, find a way to just play three periods."
Cirelli gave the Lightning a 2-1 lead at 4:22 of the second period before Gourde made it 3-1 at 12:07 on a tic-tac-toe passing play with Ondrej Palat and Point.
"That's one play that we worked on," Gourde said of his goal. "Passing to the goal-line guy to the slot guy, and I just tried to get it off as quick as I could and it went in the net."
Point's fifth goal of the season gave the Lightning a 4-1 lead at 14:01 of the second period.
Hedman scored to make it 5-1 at 10:03 of the third.
Kampf made it 5-2 at 15:17 of the third period. Schmaltz's power-play goal made it 5-3 at 16:12. It was his first goal of the season.
Callahan's empty-net goal made it 6-3 at 17:55 of the third period.

They said it

"I think we didn't like the way we finished the first period and we really came back strong in the second period. We wanted to shoot pucks at the net and be around the crease and that creates a lot of opportunities, and I think that's what we did in the second period." -- Lightning forward Yanni Gourde
"That was a tough, tough period in all aspects. I don't think we touched the puck at all, and that was the part that was disturbing against a good hockey team. Pucks went through us, nobody got knocked down around our net, they had two or three A-plus opportunities on almost every shot. That's the part you can't let happen." -- Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville

Need to know

The most shots in a period prior to Sunday was 30, set by the Dallas Stars on Oct. 13 this season and by the Montreal Canadiens last season on Oct. 20, 2017. ... The most shots the Lightning had prior to Sunday in a period was 27 on Jan. 9, 2015. ... The Lightning are 12-0-2 in their past 14 games against Chicago. ... Ward's 30 saves in the second are the most in a regular-season period since the NHL began tracking shots by period in 1997-98. … The Blackhawks tied their record for most shots against in one period; they also allowed 33 against the Boston Bruins on March 4, 1941.

What's next

Lightning: At the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday (9:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, NHL.TV)
Blackhawks:Host the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday (8:30 p.m. ET; NBCSCH, PRIME, NHL.TV)