Nikita Kucherov, lightning-quick comeback win over the Golden Knights

Nikita Kucherov scored his second goal with 55 seconds left in regulation to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 4-3 win over the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday night.

Kucherov shot from just above the goal line, hit the skate of Vegas defenseman Nicolas Hague and landed in his own net.

The Lightning had tied the score at 3-3 with 2:22 left when Brandon Hagel found an opening in the middle of the rush and scored with a wrist shot.

Janis Moser had a goal and two assists and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves for the Lightning, who improved to 3-0-0.

Brayden McNabb, Pavel Dorofeyev and Ivan Barbashev scored goals, Jack Eichel and Shea Theodore each had two assists and Adin Hill made 21 saves for the Golden Knights.

Both teams scored two goals in the opening period.

Vegas took a 1-0 lead at 5:26. The Golden Knights recovered the puck on the forecheck, Eichel brought the puck from the corner to Mark Stone in the right circle and he fed McNabb at the left point. McNabb had room to skate into the slot and shoot the puck past Vasilevskiy.

Tampa Bay tied it at 1-1 at 10:21 when Cameron Atkinson rushed a long pass over the boards and it flew to Moser, who fended off Vegas forward Brett Howden before beating Hill.

The Golden Knights went down 2-1 at 15:20 when Dorofeyev hit a one-timer from the right circle on the power play.

The Lightning managed to get back even with 13 seconds left when Kucherov and Jake Guentzel went on a 2-on-1 break and Kucherov finished off Guentzel's shot to make it 2-2.

Barbashev scored the only goal of the second period at 1:59 to give Vegas a 3-2 lead.

Theodore carried the puck into the Tampa Bay zone and behind its net. He attempted to pass the puck forward to Eichel, but it went off the skates of Moser and teammate Anthony Cirelli and was redirected to a wide-open Barbashev, who sent the puck between Vasilevskiy's pads and over the goal line.

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