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  Friday, Jan. 28 7:30pm ET
Oilers' offense erupts in Tampa
 
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- The Tampa Bay Lightning just keep on losing.

Josef Beranek had two goals as the Edmonton Oilers scored six consecutive times in a 7-3 victory over the Lightning on Friday night.

Tampa Bay has lost seven straight, the team's eighth losing streak of seven or more games over the past three seasons. The Lightning have one win (1-17-2) in the past 20 games.

"Enough is enough," Tampa Bay coach Steve Ludzik said. "We need some saves in the net."

Second-period goals by Georges Laraque, Beranek and Ryan Smyth helped the Oilers battle back from a 3-1 deficit.

"For some reason, we get kind of shaky and breakdown," Lightning defenseman Chris McAlpine said. "It just snowballed on us for whatever reason."

Beranek picked up his second goal of the night during a three-goal third period for Edmonton. Bill Guerin -- on the power play -- and Pat Falloon added third-period goals. After starting the season 3-14-3, the Oilers (3-0-1) are unbeaten in four straight games away from the Skyreach Centre.

"When they got up 3-1, I don't think we were demoralized," Edmonton coach Kevin Lowe said. "We obviously felt we had our hands full. It's a big victory for us."

Oilers goalie Bill Ranford made 30 saves in defeating his former teammates.

"No mixed emotions whatsoever. I was just happy to get the win," Ranford said. "I'm sure it's frustrating for them right now. I know what it's like, it's hard to have fun when you're losing all the time."

Tom Poti had the other Edmonton goal and also had two assists.

Pavel Kubina, Mike Sillinger and Chris Gratton had the Lightning goals. Laraque snapped a 38-game goal-scoring drought at 9:52, just 27 seconds after Gratton's goal had given Tampa Bay a 3-1 advantage.

Beranek tied the game at 3-3 when his shot from just inside the blue line deflected off goalie Dan Cloutier at 12:20. Smyth added a power-play goal from in close at 16:26.

When asked if he thought the game was slipping away during the Oilers' comeback, Ludzik said, "I didn't think it, but I felt it."

Cloutier was pulled after two periods and allowing four goals on 26 shots. Kevin Hodson gave up three more goals on 12 third-period shots.

Poti put the Oilers up 1-0 on the game's initial shot at 1:30 of the first period. Tampa Bay tied it at 1-1 on Kubina's power-play goal at 4:57.

Sillinger scored his team-best 15th goal during a power-play at 3:49 of the second period, giving the Lightning a 2-1 lead. It was the first time the Lightning had lead since Jan. 13 -- a span of seven games.

 


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