Sunday, 4 a.m.
The Tampa Bay Lightning has seen quite enough of Ilya Sorokin, thank you very much.
The Lightning, absent Nikita Kucherov and Braydon Point, were firing blanks at Sorokin again Saturday night. They played against him twice this week, and they manged just one goal on 62 shots.
"We're outlaying (opponents) in these games," Lighting coach Jon Cooper said. "What counts is what's on the scoreboard. Our job id to make sure they don't change the way they play."
The Bolts lost their third straight game, 2-0, to Sorokin and the New York Islanders Saturday night. they managed 31 shots, but none of them found the net.
The Bolts fell victim to the officials again. With 10:14 left in a scoreless game, the Islanders Casy Cizkas went down in a hump. Although the refs didn't make a call, after a review, they called Brandon Hagel for a four-minute double minor for a high-stick.
Two minutes and 28 seconds later, Calum Richie scored the game's first goal.
"There was no doubt it was Hagel's stick," Cooper said. "Ithought this was a game that the players should have decided. In the end, we have to kill it off."
In the Bolts' last game, Hagel was called for a hand pass that disallowed a tying goal.
With two seconds left, Cizkas scored an empty netter.
The Lightning playsl\ at Toronto on Monday night at 7 p.m.