Flyers 4, Lightning 2
PHILADELPHIA -- Shayne Gostisbehere made more franchise history on Monday and the Philadelphia Flyers snapped the Tampa Bay Lightning's nine-game winning streak with a 4-2 victory at Wells Fargo Center.
Gostisbehere scored two markers to give him 14, breaking Behn Wilson's record for most goals in a season by a Philadelphia rookie defenseman set in 1978-79, when he recorded 13. Earlier in the season, Gostisbehere set the point-streak record by a Flyers rookie at 15 games.
Gostisbehere also helped the Flyers (31-23-11) finish their pivotal six-game homestand 5-1-0 and climb within two points of the Detroit Red Wings for the Eastern Conference's final wild-card spot.
While Gostisbehere made franchise history, he ended it for the Lightning (39-23-4), who won a team-record nine consecutive games before falling to Philadelphia.
Tampa Bay, which is 20-6-0 in its last 26 games, remains in first place of the Eastern Conference's Atlantic Division.
Flyers goaltender Steve Mason needed to make just 16 saves for the win.
Backup Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, playing his first game since Feb. 29, stopped 37 shots.
Gostisbehere broke a 1-1 tie at 7:21 of the third period with a power-play goal assisted by Claude Giroux and Mark Streit.
Giroux finished with two assists after tallying another on Brayden Schenn's goal just over six minutes later to hand Philadelphia a 3-1 lead.
Tampa Bay trimmed the deficit with a goal by Vladislav Namestnikov, but the Flyers iced the game on Wayne Simmonds' empty-netter in the final minute.
In the opening stanza, the Lightning got on the board first with the help of a friendly bounce. Slater Koekkoek whipped a shot into traffic that ricocheted off a Philadelphia skate directly to a pouncing Ondrej Palat for a point-blank snap shot and 1-0 lead at 4:07.
After going scoreless in the first period, the Flyers increased the pressure to the point in which they had a 29-6 lead in shots. On their 30th attempt, Philadelphia finally knotted the score with just over three minutes left in the frame on Gostisbehere's 13th goal of the season.
A shot in deep by Michael Raffl trickled off the foot of Namestnikov and right to Gostisbehere, who put it home on wide-open net.
However, the Lightning weathered the storm and entered second intermission tied 1-1 despite being outshot 31-9.
NOTES: Flyers D Mark Streit appeared in his 700th game. Streit, 38, was drafted as a 26-year-old and has played 286 games with the New York Islanders, 209 with Philadelphia and 205 with the Montreal Canadiens. ... D Andrej Sustr and D Braydon Coburn were out for the Lightning and remain day-to-day. Coburn played parts of nine seasons with the Flyers before being traded to Tampa Bay on March 2, 2015. He has not played a game in Philadelphia since the deal. ... Flyers D Radko Gudas appeared his first game against his former team, the Lightning. Gudas, who was a part of the deal that sent Coburn to Tampa Bay, was a 2010 third-round draft pick of the Lightning, for whom he played three seasons. ... Lightning RW Erik Condra was a healthy scratch after playing two straight games. ... C R.J. Umberger and D Evgeny Medvedev were healthy scratches for the Flyers.