“Lightning” won at home with the score 4:1 (2:0, 1:1, 1:0) over St. Louis “Blues”.
In the 21st second of the match, Girgenson passed to Darren Redish in the attacking zone, whose shot was corrected by Pontus Holmberj in front of the goal.
The Latvian forward spent 13 minutes and 22 seconds on the ice, of which 29 seconds he played in the minority. He had one shot on goal, two power plays, one block, a two-minute suspension and a team-best +2 efficiency rating.
This season, Girgensons stood out in 29 matches with seven (5+2) points, ten penalty minutes and a neutral efficiency coefficient, but in total in the NHL he has 799 games, 201 (96+105) points, 249 penalty minutes and a negative efficiency coefficient of -73.
In Monday’s game, Redish, who also had two assists, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Anthony Cirelli also scored for the Lightning, while Justin Falk scored the only goal for the Blues.
With 43 points in 36 games, “Lightning” is in fifth place in the Eastern Conference and will play its next game on Sunday night Latvian time, when it will meet the Florida “Panthers”, the champion of the last two years, represented by Latvian defenseman Uvja Balinskas.
