In this match, Girgenson spent 11 minutes and 29 seconds on the ice, during which he used two power plays, scored twice, lost the only shot and accumulated a positive efficiency coefficient of +1. The Latvian scored the first goal of the game when Luke Glendening made it 1-0 for “Lightning” in the fourth minute.
Nick Paul, Jake Guentzel and Mitchell Chafe scored three unanswered goals in the second period. In the third period, Mikael Peaty, Edam Fantili and Cole Sillinger made it 3-4, and Brayden Point added a point to the victory with a shot into an empty net.
Paul ended the game with three points (1+2).
Jett Greaves saved 27 of 31 shots in the “Blue Jackets” goal, while Andrejs Vasilevskis blocked one more shot in the opposite goal.
“Lightning” with 36 points in 29 games is in seventh place in the Eastern Conference, where “Blue Jackets” is in 13th position with 29 points in 32 games.
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