Game Recap: TB 4 - Det 3

AP:

Martin St. Louis scored two power-play goals to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning past the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 in a pre-season game Monday night.

St. Louis tied it 2-2 on his first goal, coming midway through the first. His second put Tampa Bay ahead 4-2 at 14:39 of the second.

Andre Roy and Andreas Karlsson also scored for the Lightning. Karri Ramo had 20 saves.

Detroit got goals from Jonathan Ericsson, Johan Franzen and Brett Lebda, who scored with 3:31 left in the third to make it 4-3. Chris Osgood played two periods and stopped 14 of 18 shots.

Tampa Bay was without Vincent Lecavalier, who led the NHL with 52 goals last season. The centre left Saturday's game against Washington with an upper body injury.

Others sitting out for the Lightning included forwards Chris Gratton (eye), Michel Ouellet (strained hamstring) and Ryan Craig (herniated disc), and defenseman Dan Boyle (wrist surgery).

The D & Ramo looked a little shaky early giving up 2 goals in the 1st 5 minutes. But Roy came to the rescue, scoring the Bolts first goal, and then dropping the gloves at the next face-off with the Wings Aaron Downey. That was followed by a Nick "Nasty" Tarnasky vs. Neil Clark fight. The Bolts seemed to gain momentum at that point, and never looked back. St Louis tallied 2 power play goals, including one during a 5 on 3. They chased Wings goalie Chis Osgood after 2 periods, and locked it down until Detroits 3rd goal late in the 3rd period by Brett Lebda. In all, a good outing by the Bolts.

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