TAMPA, Fla. — Brayden Point had four assists and Brandon Hagel scored twice to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning to an 8-1 victory against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.
Jake Guentzel, Conor Geekie and Cam Atkinson each scored a goal and assist. Anthony Cirelli, Nick Perbix and Nicholas Paul scored the Lightning's other goals.
Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 20 saves.
Alex Wennberg scored for San Jose, while Vitek Vanecek took the loss after allowing five goals on 12 shots before being replaced by Mackenzie Blackwood to start the second period. Blackwood made 21 saves.
After Tampa Bay took a 2-0 lead in the first period, Hagel scored two goals 23 seconds apart to make it 4-0. It's the third-fastest time the same player scored two goals in Lightning history, behind Steve Downie (11 seconds on Feb. 12, 2012) and Jason Wiemer (15 seconds, October 3, 1997).
Takeaways
Sharks: San Jose's three-game winning streak ended, and rookie Macklin Celebrini saw his point streak come to an end at five games.
Lightning: Four Tampa Bay players named to the Four Nations Faceoff — Point and Hagel for Canada, Guentzel for USA and Victor Hedman for Sweden – all had multi-point games combining for four goals and 11 points.
