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Lightning beat Stars 3-2 in Game 2, get even in Stanley Cup

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) games and how you play,"
— Nikita Kucherov and the Pavelski said. "We definitely
Tampa Bay Lightning got were closer to ours in Game
themselves up off the ice 1, and we got away from it
to get even in the Stanley early tonight and it cost us."
Cup Final. Dallas finally got on the
After the Lightning got board on a power play
knocked around in Game with 5:17 left in the second.
1, and Kucherov took Klingberg took a shot from
some more hard hits early near the blue line, and Pav-
in Game 2, he had the pri- elski redirected the puck
mary assists on power-play with his raised stick even
goals by Brayden Point and with Ryan McDonagh all
Ondrej Palat in the first pe- over him in front of the net.
riod. Kevin Shattenkirk then In the third period, Kling-
scored for an early three- berg was in the right circle,
goal lead and Tampa when instead of taking a
Bay held on for a 3-2 vic- shot as Vasilevskiy expect-
tory over the Dallas Stars on ed, passed to Janmark,
Monday night. who had charged and
"It was a tough start I guess," suddenly stopped behind
Kucherov said. "It's the Shattenkirk just beyond the
playoffs, you have to play, Tampa Bay Lightning' Kevin Shattenkirk (22) celebrates his goal with teammates during first-peri- crease to score.
it doesn't matter what hap- od NHL Stanley Cup finals hockey action against the Dallas Stars in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, The Lightning looked to
pened." Sept. 21, 2020. have another goal, and
All of Tampa Bay's goals Associated Press a two-goal lead, with just
came in a span of four shots under 11 minutes left when
in less than four minutes tunities," said Lightning de- back in the room and started taking penalties. Mikhail Sergachev shot
against Anton Khudobin, fenseman Victor Hedman, changed it, nothing bad It's faceoffs, turnovers and from the point and got
who made a Stanley Cup who had two assists. "I liked happened." penalties — things you the puck through traffic
Final-record 22 saves in the the way we responded ... On their second power can't afford to do against past Khudobin. Bowness
third period for the Stars in to close them out." play in Game 2, the Light- an elite team like that." challenged and replay
their 4-1 win in Game 1. It Kucherov left the bench ning cycled the puck to Shattenkirk scored less clearly showed Blake Cole-
was the first time in seven momentarily early in the set up Kucherov's pass to than a minute after Palat man was offside. The hits
games that Tampa Bay game after slamming into Point to open the scoring to make it 3-0. Andrei Vasi- showed no sign of slowing
scored the opening goal. the boards during a colli- 11:23 into the game. Three levskiy stopped 27 shots for down in this rugged final:
Game 3 is Wednesday sion with defenseman Ja- minutes later with a a man Tampa Bay. Khudobin had Late in the second period,
night. mie Oleksiak after trying advantage again, Palat 28 saves. Pat Maroon decked Khu-
Joe Pavelski and Mattias to block a shot. Kucherov finished a nice passing se- Tampa Bay had failed to dobin after taking a shot
Janmark scored for Dallas had already ended up on quence, taking advantage score on its previous 14 and got a goalie interfer-
on passes from John Kling- the ice twice before, when of a half-open net and an- power-play chances with ence penalty. Earlier in the
berg, with Alexander Radu- he was popped by Dallas other setup by Kucherov. the man advantage, since shift, McDonagh knocked
lov also assisting on both. captain Jamie Benn and '"It's easy to explain: we Game 3 of the Eastern Blake Comeau down and
"After that, we really got when he drew a high-stick- lost faceoffs and we were Conference finale, until the out with a questionable hit.
back to what makes us ing penalty against Jan- turning the puck over and Kucherov-assisted goals Corey Perry and Cedric Pa-
successful as a team, we mark. He was back quickly. we were taking penalties," with a man advantage. quette went at it, too, with
got pucks deep, we were "I left because my visor Stars interim head coach "There's a couple good Perry putting him in a head-
good on the forecheck, was broken or something," Rick Bowness said. "It was teams that have some- lock before an angry Pa-
we got some good oppor- Kucherov insisted. "I went an even game until we what of a foundation to win quette flipped him over.q

Belmont winner Tiz the Law won't run in Preakness

By BETH HARRIS appointing Tiz the Law will his preference would be to
Belmont Stakes winner Tiz not be able to run in the skip the Preakness.
the Law won't run in next Preakness." However, with no chance
month's Preakness, spoiling "Our primary interest is do- for Tiz the Law to sweep
what would have been a ing what's right for the the Triple Crown, he can
highly anticipated rematch horse & in this case he's not be freshened to run in the
with Kentucky Derby win- ready," Knowlton wrote on Breeders' Cup at Keenel-
ner Authentic. Tuesday. "We look forward and in Kentucky on Nov.
The Preakness on Oct. 3 to training him up to the 6-7. Tiz the Law lost to Au-
at Pimlico concludes this Breeders Cup Classic on thentic by 1 1/4 lengths in
year's reconfigured Triple 11/7." Knowlton had made the Derby. Tiz the Law went
Crown series, which was it known since Tiz the Law off as the overwhelming 3-5
run out of order because of finished second to Authen- favorite, the biggest Derby
the coronavirus pandemic. tic in the Kentucky Derby choice in 31 years. The colt
In this June 20, 2020, file photo, Tiz the Law (8), with jockey Man- Jack Knowlton, manag- on Sept. 5 that he would won the shortened Belmont
ny Franco up, approaches the finish line on his way to winning ing partner of Sackatoga like his colt to make the Stakes in New York on June
the 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race in Elmont, Stable, which owns Tiz the Preakness. After the Derby, 20 to open the Triple Crown
N.Y. Law, tweeted that it's "dis- trainer Barclay Tagg said series.q
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