Steven Stamkos scored the tying goal late in the third period, Tyler Johnson won it 1:04 into overtime and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Nashville Predators 4-3 on Friday night for their ninth straight home win.
J.T. Brown and Nikita Kucherov also scored for the Lightning. Ben Bishop made 27 saves to give him a victory over all 30 NHL teams.
Nashville got goals from Mike Fisher, James Neal and Filip Forsberg. Pekka Rinne stopped 24 shots and is 5-1-1 against Tampa Bay.
Johnson got the winner after skating in from the right wing and beating Rinne from in-close.
Stamkos pulled the Lightning even at 3 on a goal from above the left circle with 26.6 seconds to play in the third. It was just his second in the last 11 games.
After Neal scored his 20th goal during a breakaway at 4:01 of the third, Forsberg put Nashville up 3-2 7:46 into the period on his fourth goal in the last three games.
Neal has 20 or more goals in all eight of his NHL seasons.
Brown (8:22) and Kucherov (10:07) both scored on rebounds of their own shots 1:47 apart in the second to put Tampa Bay up 2-1. Kucherov’s goal came as he was being held by defenseman Ryan Ellis.
Brown has four of his seven goals over the last seven games, while Kucherov has a point in 19 of his last 23 games.
Fisher opened the scoring from the top of the right circle 9:40 into the first.
Neal almost made it 2-0 with 5 minutes left in the first, but his shot went off Bishop and hit the post.
Rinne made a nifty glove save on a first-period left circle shot by Ryan Callahan, who played in his 600th NHL game.
The Predators are back on the ice on Saturday night when they take on the Florida Panthers in a 6 PM contest. Thunder Radio will bring you the broadcast on the Fifth Third Bank/Nashville Predators Radio Network
