Lightning hand Red Wings another loss

TAMPA -- Barclay Goodrow scored two goals for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 3-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings at Amalie Arena on Friday.

Pat Maroon scored, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves for the Lightning (7-1-1), who swept the two-game set following a 5-1 win here Wednesday.
"Obviously we knew they were going to come out hard and play their best," Tampa Bay defenseman Mikhail Sergachev said. "They are on a long road trip and want to get some points, obviously. We didn't come out with the right approach. We didn't play well and gave them a lot of scoring chances. The second period showed that.
"I felt good about the third period. The boys dialed in and shut them down. [Vasilevskiy] made a huge save there. I hope we can keep playing like that."
Vladislav Namestnikov scored for the Red Wings (2-8-2), who are 0-6-2 in their past eight games and play their next four on the road. Thomas Greiss made 29 saves and is 0-7-2 in his first nine games with Detroit.
"That's more conducive to the type of hockey we have to play to be successful," Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. "They leaned on us a bit in the third, but up until that point, we hadn't given them much. We're going to be in those 2-1 games and we have to find ways to win them."
Goodrow put the Lightning ahead 2-1 with his first goal of the season at 17:29 of the second period, scoring on a one-timer inside the point off a pass from Jan Rutta.
"I just lost that one," Griess said. "I couldn't really see it."
Goodrow then scored an empty-net goal with 28 seconds remaining for the 3-1 final.
"When it's time to close out a game, even when you're not at your best, you've got to find a way to win some of those," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "We did against a very determined Detroit team."

Namestnikov gave the Red Wings a 1-0 lead at 10:00 of first period when Filip Zadina's shot redirected in off his body. Zadina was playing his first game since being placed on the COVID-19 protocol list Jan. 22.
"Zadina looked good, he looked dangerous," Detroit captain Dylan Larkin said. "We need to just keep taking steps as a team and get our confidence back and work for each other out there."
Maroon tied it 1-1 with his first goal of the season on a shot from the point through a screen at 13:56.
"It's nice to get that one, especially early in the game," Maroon said. "[The scoring chances] have been coming, I just haven't buried them. [Alex Killorn] made a nice screen on that one."

Detroit was outshot by Tampa Bay 9-4 in the third period, but Larkin had a chance to tie the game with a one-timer from the right circle at 9:49.
"That's why it's a tough position to play," Cooper said. "You can sit there for a while, like [Vasilevskiy] had to do in the third period tonight, and then you have to make a big save. That's why he's up for the Vezina almost every year."
Larkin said, "We controlled what we could control and we showed up. That's a heck of a hockey team over there. It was a one-shot game. We wanted to clean up some small things. I think our penalty kill did a great job (3-for-3). Greiss was good tonight, he stopped what he could see. We worked the way we should every night."
NOTES: Red Wings center Sam Gagner left the game at 16:19 of the third period after getting checked from behind by Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak. … Tampa Bay is 18-0-1 in its past 19 games against Detroit.