Bolts pummel Flyers 4-1, continue surge

January 15, 9:18 PMTampa Bay Lightning ExaminerKen Carpenter

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Goals by Martin St. Louis, Andrej Meszaros and Ryan Craig -- all within a two-minute flurry late in the second period -- and a successful penalty shot by Vincent Lecavalier powered the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers at the St. Pete Times Forum last night.

The Bolts have won four of their last six games (4-2-0), and seven of 12 (7-4-1), to improve their record to 14-20-10 (38 points). 

Philadelphia's Joffrey Lupul scored 5:21 into the game, but that only served to wake up the Lightning.

St. Louis scored his 17th goal at 14:48 of the second period to tie the game. The Flyers' Randy Jones was called for tripping 17 seconds later, and then Meszaros scored his second goal of the year just eight seconds into the power play.

Statisticians were still scrambling to fill in the scoresheet when Craig bagged his second 1:38 later.

Lecavalier scored his 18th goal on a penalty shot with 7:26 left in the game, beating Flyers' goaltender Martin Biron with a stuttering, stop-start-stop move and a slow, sliding shot.

Lightning goaltender Mike Smith made 31 saves to notch his 11th victory. Tampa Bay outshot Philadelphia, 44-32. 

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Next opponent: Florida at St. Pete Times Forum, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EST 
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