Guentzel's third goal made it 5-5 late in the second — about a minute after he scored to get Tampa Bay within one. The hat trick was the ninth of his career, including the playoffs.

Guentzel scored his first career regular-season hat trick and the Penguins defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-2 on Saturday night. "He's a pretty consistent player for us," Penguins coach Mike ...

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning visit the Seattle Kraken after Jake Guentzel's hat trick against the Calgary Flames in the Lightning's 8-3 win. Seattle has gone 8-6-2 at home and 15-14-2 overall.

“You’ve got to win games different ways down the stretch and in the playoffs,” said Lightning winger Jake Guentzel, who recorded his seventh career hat trick and second this season.

Guentzel scored two goals in the second period and added an empty-netter to wrap up his second hat trick of the season in a wild opener to Pittsburgh's five-game West Coast road trip.

This was the sixth hat trick of Guentzel's career and his first for a team that isn't the Penguins. The winger is up to 16 goals, 13 assists, eight power-play points, 76 shots on net and a plus-7 ...

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning visit the Seattle Kraken after Jake Guentzel's hat trick against the Calgary Flames in the Lightning's 8-3 win. Seattle has gone 8-6-2 at home and 15-14-2 overall.