By Mike Bonts, Florida Sports Wire
SAN JOSE (FSW) – The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the San Jose Sharks 7-3 on Saturday at SAP Center in San Jose.
Darren Raddysh recorded his first career hat trick and is now up to 12 goals and 34 points this season. Nikita Kucherov, Brandon Hagel and Domenic James scored for Tamp Bay.
Andrei Vasilevskiy extended his winning streak to five games and owns a 16-7-2 record with one assist and one shutout
this season.
The Lightning moved to 25-13-3 overall, 14-4-3 on the road, 12-4-0 against Western Conference opponents and 8-2-0
against Pacific Division opponents. The Bolts have won seven consecutive games and are 7-2-1 over their last 10 games.
The Lightning tied their longest winning streak of the season at seven games…Tampa Bay had not recorded two seven-
game win streaks in the same season since 2019-20, when they had win streaks of 10 and 11 games.
The Lightning have scored power-play goals in three consecutive games and are 4-for-9 on the man advantage during that
span.
Tampa Bay’s next game is on Tuesday at Benchmark International Arena against the Colorado Avalanche at 7 p.m. ET.
