"We didn't win enough pucks in all three zones, especially the offensive zone,"
"We did some good things in that first period. We had a good road period, but we handed them one there at the end of the first. The second we weren't great and the third we kind of ran out of gas."
"I think we found a way to generate some more opportunities,"
"but that's also a very good goalie in there."
Tyler Toffoli scored the opening goal at 14:37 of the first period on assists from William Eklund and Alexander Wennberg. The Tampa Bay Lightning answered with four straight goals, beginning 33 seconds later when Nikita Kucherov seized a turnover by Sam Dickinson and set up Anthony Cirelli, whose diagonal pass found Brandon Hagel for a tap-in. A failed behind-the-net pass by Yaroslav Askarov in the second period led to a loose puck that Jake Guentzel converted for his 22nd goal. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves, Hagel added an empty-net goal, and the Lightning won 4-1 as the Sharks dropped to 25-21-3.
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