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Lightning edge Penguins in shootout, tie franchise record with 11th straight win

The streak is the longest in the NHL this season.

J.J. Moser scored for the Lightning (29-13-3), who also won 11 in a row from Jan. 29-Feb. 17, 2020. They defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 on Monday.

Evgeni Malkin scored a tying goal late in the third period, and Arturs Silovs made 30 saves for the Penguins (21-14-10), who have scored two total goals in three straight losses (0-2-1). They lost 2-1 at home to the Calgary Flames on Saturday and 1-0 at the Boston Bruins on Sunday.

Moser gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 14:13 of the third. Silovs dropped the puck after stopping a wrist shot from Yanni Gourde, allowing Moser to poke it underneath him.

Malkin tied it 1-1 at 17:44, picking up a loose puck from the wall and scoring his 10th goal this season on a wrist shot from the right circle off the post on the far side.

Gage Goncalves and Nikita Kucherov scored in the shootout for the Lightning. Vasilevskiy allowed Egor Chinakhov to score in the third round, but made saves on Rickard Rakell and Sidney Crosby in the first two.

Chinakhov nearly put Pittsburgh ahead at 14:23 of the first period, but had a tipped shot go off the left post.

Darren Raddysh later could have given Tampa Bay a lead on a power play at 10:17 of the second period, when his one-timer from the left face-off circle got past Silovs’ glove but hit the crossbar.

Kucherov had a 10-game point streak (25 points; 10 goals, 15 assists) and a nine-game multipoint streak (24 points; 10 goals, 14 assists) each end.

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