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TAMPA Blake Comeau Jersey Womens , Fla. (AP) —have streaked to 50 wins like just one other team in NHL history.They’re looking for plenty more victories this season.NHL scoring leader Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist to help the Lightning earn their 50th victory of the season in their 66th game by beating the Ottawa Senators 5-1 on Saturday night and tying the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings as the fastest teams in league history to reach the mark.“As we’ve been winning here, I don’t know if we’re fully aware all the time,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “A lot of these things I find out in the media scrums.“Our senior advisor (Steve Yzerman) was on that (Red Wings) team, so it’s probably good we didn’t break that record. We just tied it.”Tampa Bay remains on pace to challenge the record of 62 wins,also set by that same Red Wings team, and could challenge that Detroit team along with the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens as the only two teams to reach 130 points in a season.“Years from now we might look back on that,” Cooper said Patrick Kane Jersey , “but you know what the guys want and what they are playing for.”The Lightning also got goals from four different defensemen — Victor Hedman, Ryan McDonagh, Erik Cernak and Mikhail Sergachev — and set a franchise record with nine points overall from the defense.“You think they’re going to create,” Ottawa forward Bobby Ryan said, “and when they got their defensemen into the cycle, there were times when it looked overwhelming for us.”Kucherov reached 75 assists to become the first player since Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin in 2010-11 to record at least that many in a season.Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 36 shots for his 30th victory.Anthony Duclair scored the lone goal for the Senators, who lost their seventh consecutive game a day after firing coach Guy Boucher and replacing him with Marc Crawford on an interim basis. Craig Anderson finished with 29 saves.“I didn’t like the number of puck battles we lost tonight http://www.officialavalanche.com/authentic-adidas-alexander-kerfoot-jersey ,” Crawford said. “The NHL is a league that if you win puck battles, you win the game and they were so far ahead of us in terms of their ability to win puck battles. It isn’t all about skill, it’s about commitment.”Tampa Bay scored three consecutive goals to pull away in the final two periods.Second-period goals from Cernak and Kucherov, followed by Sergachev’s goal 1:59 in to the third period put the game out of reach as Tampa Bay reached 50 victories for the second consecutive season and third time in franchise history.Hedman’s ninth of the season off a rebound put Tampa Bay in front 1-0 at 7:17 of the first period.McDonagh made it 2-0 at 8:51 as Erik Cernak cut down the right boards off a drop pass from Kucherov and found McDonagh on a cross-seam pass to the slot for his seventh of the season.Ottawa answered that 37 seconds later on Duclair’s 13th of the season, his second in four games since being acquired from Columbus before the trade deadline.Cernak came off the bench to take a pass from Killorn in the right circle to snap a shot past Anderson at 3:15 of the second period for his third of the season.Kucherov scored his 31st of the season on a long-range wrist shot from the left circle at 15:27, while Sergachev scored his fifth of the season off a one-timer from a pass by Braydon Coburn.Tampa Bay has lost consecutive games in regulation only once this season, which came Nov. 9-12. After dropping a game to Boston on Thursday Erik Condra Jersey Womens , that stretch remains intact.“We definitely needed to find a way to find a win tonight,” McDonagh said. “You never want to let things snowball or get to a negative slide into our game. We have a lot of experience and good leaders in here to where we wanted to make a stand here at home and it’s a great sign.”NOTES: Tampa Bay scratched RW Ryan Callahan, D Anton Stralman and C Danick Martel. … Kucherov recorded his 31st multi-point game of the season. … Ottawa scratched D Christian Wolanin. … The Senators allowed five or more goals in a game for the 22nd time this season. … Tampa Bay G Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped Bobby Ryan on a second-period penalty shot attempt.UP NEXTLightning: Host Winnipeg on Tuesday night.Senators: at Florida on Sunday. The Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night host a Florida Panthers team still in search of their first win in the young season.The Panthers (0-2-1) have led in each of their games thus far before losing each by one goal.“Every time we take the lead, it’s tough when the momentum changes and the other team ties it up right after. It’s a pattern so far in the first three games,” Panthers coach Bob Boughner told the team’s website. “It’ something that’s got to change.”Article continues below ...Florida’s latest defeat came at home Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks. The Panthers led 2-1 in the second period before the Canucks tied the game on a penalty shot. Vancouver took the lead early in the third period and the Panthers fell 3-2.Florida generated 62 shot attempts in the loss. The Panthers failed to cash in on any of their five power plays — and are now 0-for-12 on the season — while the Canucks were 1-for-3.“I think there’s a lot of things we can be positive about and we’re playing pretty good hockey, but we’re kind of beating ourselves,” forward Vincent Trocheck said. “We’re giving teams just a few chances Carl Soderberg Jersey , but the chances we’re giving up are Grade-A quality opportunities that we can’t be giving up.”Panthers goalie James Reimer, who stopped 27 shots against Vancouver, is 0-2-1 with a 3.62 goals-against average and an .885 save percentage.The Flyers (2-3) played one of their strongest games of the season on Saturday but came away with a 1-0 loss to the visiting Vegas Golden Knights. The Flyers outshot the Knights 26-21 but couldn’t put a puck past goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury.“We needed to be (better defensively). We got scored on a lot (in the first four games),” Jakub Voracek told the Courier Post. “We wanted to tidy it up a bit, which we did. The positive thing is that we didn’t take anything out of the offensive side. Obviously, we had a lot of chances and didn’t score. Another tough game (Tuesday).”The Flyers had surrendered 19 goals in their first four games.Coach Dave Hakstol was pleased with Saturday’s effort but would like to see the Flyers generate more offensive chances.“We can shoot the puck a little more, especially early in the hockey game Gabriel Landeskog Jersey Kids , to establish a little more in the offensive zone,” he told Philly.com. “We can have a couple individual players play better.”Philadelphia — already missing forwards James van Riemsdyk (knee) and Nolan Patrick (upper body) got some good news Monday when winger Oskar Lindblom practiced and said he’ll be in the lineup against the Panthers.Lindblom was hit face-first into the boards Saturday by Vegas defenseman Brayden McNabb and left the game.“After the hard hit, I felt a little shaky, but I got a good day off and I felt like I came back to normal pretty quick,” Lindblom told Philly.com after Monday’s practice.Brian Elliott has a 6-3-0 career record against the Panthers with a 2.41 goals-against average and .919 save percentage. Reimer is 4-4-3 with a 2.51 GAA and a .918 save percentage versus Philadelphia.