Mason Marchment scored a hat trick and also had an assist as the host Columbus Blue Jackets brought an end to Tampa Bay’s 15-game point streak with an 8-5 victory on Saturday night.
It was the third hat trick of Marchment’s career. Charlie Coyle and Adam Fantilli each had a goal and two assists, and Zach Werenski and Kirill Marchenko had two assists apiece. Jet Greaves finished with 24 saves.
Cole Sillinger, Dmitri Voronkov and Sean Monahan also scored goals for the Blue Jackets, who won for the sixth time in their last seven games.
Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists for the Lightning, while Jake Guentzel collected two goals and an assist, Anthony Cirelli had a goal and two assists and Darren Raddysh also scored. Tampa Bay, which had a three-game win streak snapped, suffered its first regulation loss since Dec. 18 against the Los Angeles Kings.
Brandon Hagel had two assists and Jonas Johansson stopped 23 of 29 shots for the Lightning. The 15-game point streak ranked as the third-longest in team history, three off the record of 18 games set in 2003-04.
Columbus, coming in off a 1-0 win over Dallas on Thursday, jumped out to a 4-2 lead with its first four-goal first period of the season.
Sillinger started the scoring at the 5:45 mark with a wrist shot from the left circle short-side following a Kucherov turnover in the neutral zone. Tampa Bay tied it a little over two minutes later on hockey’s version of an own-goal when Greaves’ clearing pass caromed in off the skate of teammate Isac Lundestrom with Guentzel getting credit for the goal.
After Marchment and Raddysh traded goals, the Blue Jackets scored twice in a 74-second span near the end of the period take a 4-2 lead. Fantilli got the first goal with a short rebound from the right side of crease, and Vorontkov followed with a short breakaway with a wrist shot under Johansson’s glove.
Kucherov and Cirelli scored in the first five minutes of the second period to tie it, but Marchment put Columbus back in front, 5-4, midway through the period with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle.
Coyle put the Blue Jackets up by two goals again with a power-play score near the end of the period, his 200th career goal.
Columbus extended the lead to 7-4 on an empty-netter by Monahan with 5:05 left. Guentzel scored a 6-on-5 goal with 1:06 to go to cut the lead to two before Marchment scored an empty-netter with 25 seconds remaining to secure his hat trick and end the scoring.
–Field Level Media
