The Tampa bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs both entered Tuesday night's game at the St. Pete Times Forum in desperate need of a win. The home team jumped out to an early lead and set the pace for the rest of the night, beating the Leafs by a final score of 4-0.
The Lightning were all over the Leafs in an eventful first period. Steven Stamkos gave the Lightning an early lead, with what else, a laser from the left circle on the power play to open the scoring with his first 12th goal of the year. Nate Thompson followed that up almost immediately – 29 seconds later – with his first goal of the year at the 11:39 mark. Dominic Moore finished off the first period trifecta, scoring his fifth goal of the year, at 19:13, extending the Lightning lead to 3-0.
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2010.