Bruins, Lightning goalies struggle at NHL Stadium Sequence recreation
Everybody loves a goalie struggle — and it is perhaps even higher outside.
In entrance of a packed Raymond James Stadium, the house of the Buccaneers, Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman and Lightning netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy dropped the gloves throughout Sunday night time’s NHL Stadium Sequence recreation in Tampa.
The struggle started with 8:59 left within the second interval, after Brandon Hagel took one too many pokes on the puck after the whistle — resulting in a pair of Bruins gamers giving him a shove after which Swayman attempting to tough him up a bit.
After the refs tried to chill issues down, Swayman seen Vasilevskiy making his approach from the Lightning internet towards the motion on the different finish of the ice, and the 2 goaltenders squared up.
The struggle didn’t final lengthy as Swayman by no means bought his skates below him and Vasilevskiy rapidly bought the higher hand within the struggle, touchdown a number of punches on the Bruins goaltender.
In line with HockeyFights.com, a web site that tracks hockey gamers’ struggle information, Sunday’s tilt was the primary time both Swayman or Vasilevskiy had gotten right into a struggle.
Neither appeared to carry a grudge as the 2 smiled and laughed as they shook palms after the sport.
The scrap was the primary goalie struggle in an out of doors NHL recreation.
The Lightning defeated the Bruins 6-5 within the shootout after erasing a 5-1 gap that Tampa discovered itself in halfway by means of the second interval.
On the time of the struggle, the Lightning had trailed 5-2 and just a little greater than 4 minutes later, defenseman Darren Raddysh scored to chop the Boston result in two.
Nick Paul and Nikita Kucherov scored to ultimately even the rating, and Jake Guentzel scored the one aim within the shootout for the win.
A crowd of greater than 64,000 followers was in attendance and so they witnessed the biggest comeback in an out of doors NHL recreation; the four-goal rally was the largest in Lightning franchise historical past.
Swayman and Vasilevskiy’s struggle was the second goalie struggle within the NHL in lower than a month after one other
Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky and Sharks goalie Alex Nedeljkovic fought in a recreation between the 2 groups again on Jan. 19.
