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NHL Game Summary - Tampa Bay at NY Islanders

Uniondale, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - With Valtteri Filppula scoring a pair of goals late in the third period to spark an improbable comeback, the Tampa Bay Lightning extended the New York Islanders' recent misery with a 3-2 shootout victory at Nassau Coliseum.

The Lightning trailed 2-0 with under three minutes remaining in regulation before Filppula's heroics, with the second goal coming with just 3.8 seconds left to play. He also had one of Tampa Bay's two tallies during the shootout, with Nikita Kucherov accounting for the eventual game-winner in the second round.

Ben Bishop helped the Lightning to a second straight road win after a seven- game skid as the visitor by making 32 saves.

Evgeni Nabokov finished with 34 saves for New York, but faltered late as the Islanders fell to 1-9-4 over their last 14 outings. Kyle Okposo and Frans Nielsen each potted goals in the loss.

The Islanders appeared to be well on their way to only a second triumph in the last month, but a giveaway from Nielsen in his own zone led to Filppula firing home a wrister from the right slot that pulled the Lightning within 2-1 with 2:53 left in the third period.

With Bishop pulled for an extra attacker, Tampa Bay frantically pressured the New York goal over the final stages of regulation and were rewarded for the effort, as Filppula backhanded a loose puck that trickled just past Nabokov's outstretched glove with barely enough time to spare.

Filppula struck again as the Lightning's initial shooter in the deciding phase, though Nielsen tied it by beating Bishop glove-side with a backhand try to open the second round. Kucherov got Nabokov to open his pads and put Tampa Bay back ahead, however, and Bishop sealed it by closing off the left side on John Tavares' chance.

Bishop came up with 12 saves, including a point-blank stop of Josh Bailey on a breakaway, to keep the contest scoreless after one period. The Islanders cashed in on a power-play opportunity just moments into the second, however, to break the deadlock.

With Thomas Vanek setting a successful screen in front, Okposo wound up and fired a screaming point shot that made its way in just 11 seconds into the session.

Nabokov also had a busy opening frame in which he turned away all 13 Tampa Bay chances, then later helped kill off a New York penalty early in the third that maintained the Isles' one-goal edge.

New York was able to gain some breathing room just past the midway mark of the final period, when Michael Grabner started a 2-on-1 with Nielsen that ended with the latter ripping a shot over Bishop's right shoulder with 9:39 to go.

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