Joel Eriksson Ek and Brock Faber also scored, and Mats Zuccarello had two assists for Minnesota (7-1-2), which has won six of its past seven games. Filip Gustavsson made 28 saves.
“Yeah, it’s nice win, but I feel like we play not our [best] hockey in first period,” Kaprizov said. “Maybe it was because it was a long trip and something like that. But I feel like second and third period we played better, and Gus [made] huge saves and a couple blocked shots and we scored our goals.”
Brayden Point extended his point streak to four games (three goals, three assists), and Jake Guentzel extended his point streak to three (three goals, two assists) for the Lightning (7-4-0), who had won three in a row. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 17 saves.
“After the fact, you look at it, ‘Do I think that we deserved some points out of this game?’ I do,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “I thought we deserved points the first time we played them. They end up getting four. We get zero. And you look at it, there were so many good things that happened on our side for the game, but timing is everything. 2-2 game with five minutes left and we give one up, it's tough. At times like this ... there's not moral victories. In the end, you're gonna wake up tomorrow and we got zero points.”
Point made it 1-0 on the power play at 19:15 of the first period. Victor Hedman’s rebound found Point in the slot, who buried it into the open net.
Eriksson Ek scored his fifth goal of the season to tie the game 1-1 47 seconds into the second period. Kaprizov beat Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak down the wing and sent a cross-ice pass to Eriksson Ek for the one-timer.
Faber put Minnesota ahead 2-1 at 2:41 of the third period with a wrist shot from atop the circles, but Guentzel made it 2-2 at 6:23 on the power play with a five-hole shot from the left face-off dot.
“You're not gonna lead every game the whole game, right? There's gonna be adversity,” Faber said. “There's gonna be, just like last [year], injuries and things like that and off nights. And being able to find a way to win like that, a more gritty win, a very imperfect win, we're definitely really happy with that.”