Detroit — What a crushing loss for the Red Wings — and a gutsy win for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Red Wings stormed back to tie Tuesday’s game but Tampa’s Nikita Kucherov scored his second goal of the game at 18 minutes, 50 seconds of the third period giving Tampa the 4-3 victory.
It was the Red Wings’ (8-8-1, 17 points) second consecutive loss and came against a short-handed Lightning (10-6-1, 21 points) team that lost Steven Stamkos in the first period.
The puck went straight to Kucherov after Drew Miller blocked a shot, and with goaltender Petr Mrazek leaning the opposite direction, Kucherov had a lot of net to shoot at.