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TAMPA Anthony Beauvillier Jersey , Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay scored early and often in another home victory over Florida.Steven Stamkos had a goal and three assists and the Lightning reclaimed the top spot in the Eastern Conference with a 7-3 victory over the Panthers on Wednesday night.“Guys were battling all night,” Stamkos said. “That’s just what you want to see. Compete, and then when you compete the skill takes over.”Nikita Kucherov and Ryan McDonagh each had a goal and two assists. Mathieu Joseph, Yanni Gourde, Adam Erne and Dan Giradi also scored, J.T. Miller had three assists, and Louis Domingue made 40 saves.“It’s tough to lose when you score seven Authentic Brock Nelson Jersey ,” said Domingue, who was won three of four filling in for injured starter Andrei Vasilevskiy. “I just thought we played a great game from start to finish.”Vasilevskiy has a fractured left foot and will miss three to five more weeks.The Lightning are 11-1-1 at home against Florida since the start of the 2013-14 season.Panthers left wing Mike Hoffman extended his points streak to 17 games (10 goals, 20 points) with a late third-period power-play goal. He is the fifth player in NHL history to have a points streak of at least 17 games in his first season with a franchise.Troy Brouwer and Aleksander Barkov also scored for the Panthers. They are 2-3 on a six-game trip. Roberto Luongo was pulled early in the third after allowing six goals on 28 shots.“We kind of let Luon out to dry there,” Florida defenseman Aaron Ekblad said. “Ultimately they were coming in waves at us all game and we didn’t have a response.”Tampa Bay went ahead 4-1 early in the second when Gourde scored on an in-close give-and-go with Stamkos at 2:37 before Erne put home a backhander 2:08 later.Barkov made it 4-2 on the power play with 1:35 remaining in the second.Stamkos, McDonagh and Girardi had third-period goals. It was Girardi’s first goal in 23 games.“Just too many unforced errors,” Hoffman said. “You can’t be giving up that many goals if you expect to win any game.”Joseph stole the puck from Alexander Petrovic and scored on a backhander 59 seconds into the game.“We just feed off that,” Stamkos said.After Brouwer scored at 2:19 of the first Cal Clutterbuck Jersey , Kucherov’s power-play goal put the Lightning up 2-1 with 10:38 left in the period.Kucherov has two goals and nine points during a four-game point streak.NOTES: Panthers C Vincent Trocheck had surgery for a fractured right ankle and may play again this season. Trocheck was hurt in Monday night’s game at Ottawa. “He’s bummed out,” Florida coach Bob Boughner said. “The surgery went well. He’ll be back. It’s just a matter of when.” … Former Lightning star Martin St. Louis was honored before game following his induction last week into the Hockey Hall of Fame. “It’s the ultimate honor,” St. Louis said. “I can’t believe I’m part of that group.”UP NEXTPanthers: At Carolina on Friday night.Lightning: Host Chicago Friday night. MONTREAL (AP) — A no-goal call in the third period fueled the Montreal Canadiens to a comeback victory over the Ottawa Senators.Shea Weber scored the tiebreaking goal in Montreal’s four-goal third period and the Canadiens rallied for 5-2 win over Ottawa on Saturday night, beating the Senators for the third time in 12 days.After Montreal’s Jesperi Kotkaniemi tied the score 2-2 at 2:06 of the third, the Canadiens appeared to take the lead less than 90 seconds later when Phillip Danault put the puck behind Senators goalie Mike McKenna. However, the goal was waved off after Artturi Lehkonen was called for embellishment seconds before.“We were a little upset and we transferred that energy the right way actually,” Weber said. “It was a good reaction. Guys were really upset. We thought we deserved a goal there. But we did the right things and came back and played the right way.”After the disallowed goal Eric Tangradi Jersey Womens , a loud chorus of boos rained down on the Senators, and referees, for the rest of the period.“They were fired up and we were fired up,” Weber said of the Bell Centre crowd. “It was a good intensity and energy for everyone. It was definitely loud.”Montreal then scored three times in a 7 1/2-minute stretch later in the period to get the win.Kotkaniemi and Matthew Peca each had a goal and an assist, and Paul Byron and Jonathan Drouin also scored for the Canadiens. Carey Price stopped 16 shots to win his fifth straight.Weber put the Canadiens ahead just past the midpoint of the period with aa powerful snap shot from the left faceoff dot for his fourth.Byron made it 4-2 with 6 1/2 minutes left when he redirected Kotkaniemi’s shot past McKenna. Drouin sealed it with an empty-netter nearly four minutes later.“We were all upset,” said Canadiens coach Claude Julien, who earned his 600th career victory. “You can disagree with bad calls. I consider that one a mistake more than a bad call. I wish they would have gotten together and overruled that. It would have made sense.“After that we played our best hockey of the night. It woke us up.”Each of Montreal’s recent wins against Ottawa have been by identical 5-2 scores.Colin White and Mikkel Boedker scored for the Senators www.officialislanders.com/authentic-adidas-casey-cizikas-jersey , who were coming off a 4-2 win against Detroit the previous night. The 35-year-old McKenna, starting in place of Craig Anderson. finished with 42 saves.“Any time you allow four goals, you’re always searching for things you can do better,” said McKenna, a 2002 draft pick. “As a goalie, it doesn’t matter how many you faced it’s about how many you keep out of the net.”The Canadiens outshot the Sens 16-3 in the second, 19-7 in the third and 47-18 overall.“We let them come at us in waves and we didn’t have a match for their energy and the amount of pucks they put on the net Adam Pelech Jersey Womens ,” Ottawa forward Bobby Ryan said. “We sat back a little too much. We were a stick length away all night.“Sometimes you just have to be a little more aggressive. That’s on all of us.”With his second goal in two games, Peca got the Canadiens on the scoreboard at 3:39 of the first.Montreal’s lead was extremely short-lived, with White tying it 20 seconds later with his ninth. It came seconds after Brady Tkachuk appeared to trip Price with his stick, and the Canadiens challenged the goal for goaltender interference but the call on the ice stood.Heavily outworked in the second, the Senators scored on their first shot of the period at 9:11. Confusion between Jordie Benn and Noah Juulsen behind their own net led to Boedker’s fourth.NOTES: The Senators dropped to 2-4-1 in their past seven games. … Price improved to 25-9-5 all-time versus Ottawa. … Montreal went 0 for 4 on the power play and is now 0 for 22 with the man advantage over its last seven games.UP NEXTSenators: Host Nashville on Monday night.Canadiens: Host Boston on Monday night.