Moore scores tiebreaking goal in Lightning win
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Dominic Moore scored a tiebreaking goal with 3:45 remaining in the third period and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 5-3 on Tuesday night.
Moore stopped an 11-game goal drought and put Tampa Bay up 4-3 when he beat Tim Thomas with a shot from the top of the left circle.
Steven Stamkos added his league-leading 31st goal of the season into an empty net during the final minute of play.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Vincent Lecavalier, Tom Pyatt and Ryan Malone had the other Tampa Bay goals.
Nathan Horton had two goals, and Daniel Paille added a short-handed goal for the Northeast Division-leading Bruins, who were coming off a 3-2 shootout win at Florida on Monday night. Horton has 24 goals and 44 points in 44 games against Tampa Bay.
After Malone scored off a turnover 4:58 into the third, Paille got the Bruins even at 3 on a backhand during his short-handed breakaway at 10:53.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Paille has two of Boston's six short-handed goals this season. Tampa Bay has given up seven goals to its opponents while on the power play.
Tampa Bay went up 2-1 when Thomas was unable to cover the puck after a diving attempt and Pyatt chipped home a backhand from just outside the crease with 5:49 left in the second.
Thomas is 2-4 in his past six games.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Horton pulled Boston even at 2 just 2:37 after Pyatt's goal. He had tied it at 1-all on an in-close rebound earlier in the second at 4:28 after Mathieu Garon stopped the right wing's initial shot.
David Krejci, who had his 11-game point streak end (five goals, 16 points) Monday night, assisted on Horton's second goal of the game.
Lecavalier put the Lightning ahead 1-0 with a backhand from the slot at 7:11 of the first. The center also hit the post from the right circle during a power play late in the period.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Notes: Tampa Bay RW Martin St. Louis has gone 12 games without scoring a goal, but has 14 assists, including one Tuesday, over the stretch. ... Boston LW Brad Marchand served the final game of a five-game suspension for a hit on Vancouver's Sami Salo on Jan. 7. ... Lecavalier has 20 goals and 48 points in 47 games against Boston. ... Bruins C Rich Peverley missed his second straight game tending to a personal matter. ... Tampa Bay D Marc-Andre Bergeron (back) sat out for the third consecutive game.