Stamkos has 2 goals, Lightning top Ducks 5-0

The Tampa Bay Lightning may be coming out of their offensive funk.

The Tampa Bay Lightning look to find a few offense when the Anaheim Ducks visit Saturday. However Tampa Bay ended up with more scoring chances over the whole course of the game 33-28 as the teams each created 12 high danger chances.

The Anaheim Ducks are trying to come back from a awful start and have been slowly getting the job done.

“Both of the last two games have just been a byproduct of us playing hard and playing the right way”.

The Ducks completed a four-game road trip at 2-2. “Win one, lose one, those kind of things, it doesn’t build anything in the standings, it doesn’t build anything in the (locker) room”. After a scoreless first period against Anaheim, a flurry of Lightning goals – two by center Steven Stamkos – in the second broke the game open.

Jonathan Marchessault tacked on another power-play goal for the second in his nine National Hockey League games.

Korbinian Holzer will draw back in for his 10 game of the season after sitting out Friday against the Panthers. “He’s our No. 1 guy and we got to make sure he plays”, Boudreau told reporters.

The Anaheim Ducks have tasted the same bitter taste of defeat the Lightning experienced earlier in the season.

“It’s just the inconsistency in our game”, Getzlaf said. “And probably both coaching staffs are looking at our records saying we’d like to be a little bit better than where we are, so I would expect this to be a pretty good one tonight”. “We just want to play the right way and if we play the right way and the way we’re capable of playing, usually your shots add up”.

Ryan Kesler hit the post with 9 minutes left in the second, a play that saw Bishop use the top of his goalie stick while leaning backwards to keep the puck that bounced off him from going into the net. He finished with 19 saves. The home team is 5-1 in the last 6 meetings and the Ducks are 1-4 in the last 5 meetings while the under is 5-2 in the last 7 meetings. Tampa Bay squeezed out a 2-1 win on a last minute goal that dropped the Rangers to 14-3-2.

Lindholm has an upper-body injury that he suffered during the first period Thursday against Florida. It was that fall where Bruce Boudreau took over for Randy Carlyle as coach. The Lightning won their second straight game for the first time since opening the season 3-0, and the five goals were the most it has scored since beating Boston 6-3 in that third game. While Callahan could return, fellow forwards Tyler Johnson, Jonathan Drouin and Cedric Paquette are questionable to go along with Ondrej Palat, who is out a few more weeks.