Blue Jackets fall in 5OT classic to Lightning

Goaltender Joonas Korpisalo sets an NHL playoff record with 85 saves and defenseman Seth Jones sets a league mark for ice time, but the Blue Jackets fall, 3-2, in five overtimes to the Lightning.

TORONTO » Brayden Point scored 10:27 into the fifth overtime, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Columbus Blue Jackets, 3-2, on Aug. 11 in the fourth-longest game in Stanley Cup playoff history.

Point scored from just above the left circle, beating Joonas Korpisalo after the goaltender made an NHL-record 85 saves. Point

also scored way back in the first period of Game 1 of the best-of-seven series.

Vezina Trophy finalist Andrei Vasilevskiy also was outstanding for Tampa Bay, making 61 stops. The teams combined for 151 shots — most in a NHL game since the league began officially tracking the statistic in 1955-56.

“It’s tiring for sure but then it gets fun at some point,” Point said. “I don’t know how many guys played a game like that, that long. It was an exciting one.”

The teams are meeting in the first round for the second straight year, with the Lightning looking to rebound from being swept 16 months ago by the underdog Blue Jackets, who became the first No. 8 seed to oust the winner of the Presidents’ Trophy in four games.

Pierre-Luc Dubois scored on the power play and Oliver Bjorkstrand added a goal late in the second period to give Columbus — the No. 7 seed in the East — a pair of short-lived leads in regulation.

Yanni Gourde had the other goal for the secondseeded Lightning.

FRANK GUNN — THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy clears the puck under pressure from Blue Jackets center Nathan Gerbe during the first period in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series on Aug. 11 in Toronto.