PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brayden Point scored at 3:58 of overtime and the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Tuesday night. Point’s overtime winner was his 10th goal of the season. Point, who missed the previous two weeks with a lower-body injury, started the comeback in his return game with a goal at 5:41 of the third.
Anthony Cirelli scored his fifth goal of the season. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 17 shots for Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay earned its first multigoal, third-period comeback since a 3-2 overtime win against Los Angeles on Jan.
9. Rickard Rakell scored a power-play goal, while Jesse Puljujarvi opened the scoring for Pittsburgh. Rakell ended a nine-game drought with his seventh of the season.
Sidney Crosby had an assist and surpassed Hall of Famer Joe Sakic for 13th-most assists in NHL history and sixth-most by a player with a single franchise. He now has 1,017 assists. Mario Lemieux ranks 12th with 1,033.
Tristan Jarry made 32 saves for Pittsburgh. Lightning: Tampa Bay won its third straight game. The Lightning outscored Winnipeg and New Jersey by an 8-1 margin in their last two games, but they had to rally for a win against Pittsburgh.
Penguins: Pittsburgh lost for the fourth time in five games. The Penguins, who allowed a two-goal lead to slip away in the third period for the second straight game, have 12 losses in their last 16 overall. Point took a pass behind the net from J.
J. Moser. Jarry was out of position along the side of the net as.
