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Lightning win third straight, score season high six goals

Vincent Lecavalier scored twice, and Martin St. Louis had a goal and three assists to help the Tampa Bay Lightning win their third straight game, 6-4 over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night.

Tampa Bay (10-16-9) also got goals from Steven Stamkos, Evgeny Artyukhin and Ryan Malone. The Lightning won the first game of the home-and-home series at Florida, 4-3 in a shootout, on Friday night.

David Booth had two goals and an assist, Nathan Horton picked up his first goal in 11 games, and Stephen Weiss added a goal for the Panthers, who have dropped four of six.

After Tampa Bay blew a two-goal advantage, Lecavalier gave the Lightning a 4-3 lead from the low slot with 5.4 seconds left in the second. St. Louis set up Malone's power-play goal early in the third and then extended the Lightning lead to 6-3 on a rebound goal with 12:14 to play.

Stamkos, taken first overall in this year's amateur draft, put the Lightning up 1-0 on his fourth goal at 7:06 of the first. It stopped a personal 11-game goal-scoring drought.

Artyukhin made it 2-0 with 5:57 left in the first on Tampa Bay's second of three 5-on-3 power plays of the period.

Mark Recchi assisted on Artyukhin's goal, which tied him for 20th place with Hall of Famer Phil Esposito on the NHL assist list with 873. Esposito was at the game, working as a Lightning radio broadcaster.

Tampa Bay outshot Florida 21-3 in the first.

Published Saturday, December 27, 2008 9:44 PM by gilkor

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