Brian Elliott made 37 saves and Patrik Berglund's late goal ended up being the game-winner when the St. Louis Blues defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 at Amalie Arena. Berglund's goal at 17:41 in the third period came on a breakaway. Lightning goalie Ben Bishop made a save on the first shot but the loose puck hit Berglund's skate and got past Bishop. The referee waived the goal off but the call was reversed on the video review, giving the Blues a 2-0 lead. Lightning coach Jon Cooper was surprised the call was overturned.
Nikita Kucherov scored his team-leading 23rd goal with 52 seconds remaining and Bishop pulled for an extra attacker to make it a 2-1 game. It came when he sent back a rebound off a shot from Tyler Johnson. Bishop had 19 saves for the Lightning, who had their nine-game home winning streak end.
The Lightning had chances earlier in the third period but Elliott made saves on shots from defenseman Braydon Coburn and forward Alex Killorn from close range. Elliott said the defense kept him free from many other potential scoring opportunities.
Robby Fabbri scored his 13th goal 36 seconds into the second period on a breakaway, beating Bishop with a backhand shot to the glove side. Paul Stastny made the pass that got Fabbri off to the breakaway. St. Louis improved to 3-0-1 in its past four games.
Blues Quotes
Patrick Berglund: "I put on the brakes and it bounced and it went in. I didn't have my hopes up because I looked at the ref and he didn't confirm the goal and that was that. Then they reviewed it, I thought it was a good goal and I'll take it and move on."Brian Elliott: "We got some big boys back there so we were able to get body position and they didn't really have many shooting lanes or passing lanes. [Joel Edmundson] was a beast back there. He had a big hit and I thought it got our team going in the second."
Ken Hitchcock: "I thought the second period was our best period by far. We had a lot of odd-man rushes and scoring chances off of turnovers out of our zone. This defense has really rallied around missing [Alex Pietrangelo], it looks like we found some rhythm. We're starting to really play well and we have to keep playing well."
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