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Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork. Wholesale Eagles Jerseys .com) - Tyler Johnson recorded his second career hat trick and Tampa Bay held on late for a 4-3 decision over Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Nikita Kucherov chipped in the other goal and two assists for the Lightning, who received three helpers from Ondrej Palat. Andrei Vasilevskiy came up with 26 saves to record his second career victory. Patric Hornqvist, Chris Kunitz and Kris Letang scored for the Penguins, who nearly wiped out a four-goal deficit but dropped their second in a row after winning three straight. We just made some big mistakes, said Penguins captain Sidney Crosby. Sometimes you make mistakes in games and you get away with them and it felt like every one we made (tonight) ended up in the net. Jeff Zatkoff took the loss in relief, having allowed the game-deciding goal on 17 shots. Marc-Andre Fleury got the start but was yanked after yielding three goals on 10 shots in nearly 21 minutes of action. Hornqvist finally answered for the Pens just after the midway point of regulation when he carried the puck from his own zone up the right wing and scored to the short side with a hard wrister. Kunitz made it a two-goal game when he beat Vasilevskiy on a breakaway with a backhander after exiting the penalty box five seconds shy of the midway point of the third. Letang pulled the visitors within one as Zatkoff was on the bench for an extra skater, flipping a shot home from just below the circles. Theyre a good team. I thought they showed a lot of resiliency, Johnson said. They have a lot of guys on that team who won Stanley Cups. Theyre just tough to play against. They battled all 60 minutes. Johnson opened the scoring at 6:54 of the first with a one-timer from the hashmarks, then rippled the net again with four seconds left before the first intermission on a seeing-eye shot from the left circle. Kucherov made it 3-0 for the Bolts inside the opening minute of the second and Johnson completed his milestone by welcoming Zatkoff to the game at 2:37 with a blistering shot from the right wing to cap an odd-man rush. Game Notes Johnsons first hat trick came in a 5-2 win over the Avalanche on Jan. 27 ... The 24-year-old native of Spokane, Washington has totaled 16 points (7G, 9A) in his last 13 games ... Just prior to the contest, Pens head coach Mike Johnston revealed that forward Blake Comeau will miss several weeks with an upper-body injury. The team recalled forward Dominik Uher from Wilkes- Barre/Scranton of the AHL. Cheap Brian Dawkins Jersey . Gustafsson controlled the first round after getting top position on a throw, and came out much more forcefully in the second, buckling Manuwa with a Muay Thai knee, and finishing him off with strikes on the ground. Cheap Reggie White Jersey . Hes had three top-10 results this season and feels ready to put it all together and finally hoist a trophy at the top level. http://www.cheapeaglesjerseysauthentic.com/ . JOHNS, N.Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry wants to answer your emails at cmonref@tsn.ca! Hi Kerry, I was timekeeping a AAA minor midget game last week when the following happened. A player was skating down the wing and then wound up to take a huge slap shot. When he took the shot, the puck actually split into two pieces with both halves of the puck entering the net for a score. Should the goal be allowed or not? Has anything weird like that ever happened to you in the pros during your career? One ref at the game actually thought a goal should be allowed but after all three officials got together, there was a ruling of no goal with the faceoff inside the zone. Thought maybe a weird situation would put a bit of a change of pace to your column. Cheers,Edward Sherr Edward: As weird as it sounds, I do recall a hard shot ring off the goal post in an NHL game I worked that caused the puck to break in half. Neither chunk of vulcanized rubber entered the net but instead split off in different directions. One piece travelled toward the end zone corner while the other portion found its way into the slot. Players scrambled in both directions, instinctively chasing the black disc that was nearest their position. I recall the look of shock on each players face after recognizing only half a puck existed in two different locations on the ice. I blew my whistle to halted play for this unusual situation. A discussion then ensued as to who caused the stoppage of play with regard to the resulting face-off location. The defending team protested that the attacking team had caused the stoppage with a shot that broke the puck. They rationalized their position no differently than shooting or deflecting the puck over the boards. I settled on the claim that it wasnt "who" (which team) but "what" (a faulty puck) that caused the stoppage and the resulting face-off was taken in the end zone corner where half the puck had come to rest. The fact is, Edward, that the entire puck must completely cross the goal line to count as a legal goal. Half a puck just doesnt cut it. The officials in the AAA Midget game, therefore, made the correct call; including the resulting end zone face-off location. Amendment/Addition: You have correctly noted from Edwards question that both halves of the broken puck entered the net. While there is nothing presently in the NHL Officiating Case book or anything that I could find in the Canadian Hockey Case Book or playing rules on the subject, we need to look at rule 13 - Puck. The puck shall be made of vulcanized rubber, or other approved material, one inch (1") thick and three inches (3") in diameter and shall weigh between five and one-half ounces (5 1/2 oz.) and six ounces (6 oz.). All pucks used in competition must be approved by the Leaggue. Cheap Eagles Jerseys. A puck that has broken in half does not conform to this rule in specified size or weight, nor is it approved for legal play. No goal would result should a puck that was broken in half and therefore deemed unfit for play (illegal) enter the net. This would include the case where separated halves found their way into the net. During the season, I had the puck split in half. Inglasco (the official puck supplier to the NHL) was having some quality control issues. You might recall that routine shots were causing the protective glass behind the goal to break at an unprecedented rate. I was told that there was a component in the puck that was causing this to occur. While that problem was quickly rectified, it brought special attention to the puck and particularly the inconsistency with which it settled or bounced on the ice. A study, conducted by an NHL-hired consultant with a PHD specializing in the field of rubber, revealed the ideal temperature at which frozen vulcanized rubber provided the optimum density to slide across the ice and minimize the bounce effect. Following the study, game puck supplies were to be kept in a special temperature controlled freezer that were installed in every NHL arena. Pucks that previously were kept cool in a bucket of ice at the penalty timekeeper bench were secured in a mini-freezer by an off-ice crew member that was in charge of pucks. Memos were sent to the head of each Off-Ice Crew on the new puck handling policy and optimum temperature that must be maintained. Linesmen were instructed to change out the pucks on a frequent basis. I will tell you first hand that the density of the frozen puck was noticeable when on occasion I was struck by one. Even a glancing blow provided an extra sting not previously experienced! With all this hoopla of information being circulated over the ideal puck temperature, Jeff Weintraub, head of the NY Islanders Off-Ice Crew (and a dear friend of all the NHL Officials) decided to have a little fun with us. Prior to a game I worked in Nassau Coliseum, Jeff entered our dressing room with a very serious look on his face and asked me if I would check the temperature of the game puck. Confused, I asked how the heck he expected me to do that. From behind Jeffs back he exposed a NY Islander puck with a ..................... drilled in it. Inserted in the ..................... was a "rectal thermometer!" What a ball-buster Jeff was. The bouncing puck also led to snow buildup being scrapped from the goal crease and around the dasher boards during commercial time-outs. Very quickly through the scraping process guys in sweat suits were replaced by scantily clad "Ice ..............." Its truly ..... the progress I witnessed during my 30 years as an NHL referee. 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