St. Louis scores in OT, Lightning beat Sharks
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Martin St. Louis scored his second goal of the game 4:27 into overtime, Steven Stamkos had two goals and two assists in his 300th NHL game, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the San Jose Sharks 6-5 on Thursday night.
St. Louis got the winner from close range off a pass from Victor Hedman.
Stamkos has 158 goals and 298 points overall. Teddy Purcell and Steve Downie had the other Tampa Bay goals.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Pacific Division-leading Sharks got goals from Logan Couture, Michal Handzus, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Colin White and Tommy Wingels, who got San Jose even at 5 during a 2-on-1 with 5:10 remaining in the third.
Stamkos made it 4-4 on his league-leading 39th goal from the slot 2:44 into the third. St. Louis gave the Lightning a 5-4 lead when his shot from along the goal-line went off a San Jose defender and past goalie Antti Niemi.
Tampa Bay's Dwayne Roloson made 45 saves, including five in overtime. Niemi stopped 19 shots.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Vlasic got his first goal in 17 games at 14:37 of second and White stopped a personal 148-game goal drought, dating to Dec. 28, 2009, 67 seconds later as San Jose went ahead 4-3.
Tampa Bay, outshot 20-4 during the second, had taken a 3-2 advantage on Downie's goal at 14:08.
Handzus tied it 2 from the low slot at 1:44 of the second.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}After Stamkos scored at 9:30 of the first, he assisted on Purcell's power-play goal that gave Tampa Bay a 2-1 lead with 24.4 seconds left in the first.
Couture put the Sharks up 1-0 on a power-play goal just 1:16 into the game. The center had two goals in San Jose's 7-2 victory over Tampa Bay on Dec. 21.
The teams announced a trade before the game, with the Sharks obtaining center Dominic Moore and a seventh-round draft pick this year for a 2012 second-round pick.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman said the team also plans to keep Pavel Kubina out of the lineup while it attempts to trade the defenseman.
Notes: Lightning D Brendan Mikkelson snapped a 31-game point drought, dating to Oct. 30, 2010, with two assists. He has no goals and eight assists in 103 NHL games. ... Sharks C Torrey Mitchell had two assists for his first points in 12 games. ... Tampa Bay D Matt Gilroy was back in the lineup after missing two games because of a hand injury.