TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Seth Jones scored the go-ahead goal on the power play to cap Columbus’ three-goal third period, and the Blue Jackets rallied to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 in Game 1 of the teams’ first-round Eastern Conference playoff series.
Jones made it 4-3 from the slot with 5:55 to play as the Blues Jackets erased a 3-0 deficit after the Lightning scored three times in the opening period.
Josh Anderson knotted the score with a short-handed goal at 11:54 of the third period, about four minutes after David Savard got the Jackets within 3-2.
Nick Foligno started the rally with a goal in the second period and Sergei Bobrovsky ended up with 26 saves after struggling in the first period.
Alex Killorn, Anthony Cirelli and Yanni Gourde had first-period goals for the Lightning, who host Game 2 on Friday.