The Tampa Bay Lightning, who were without captain Steven Stamkos and will be for the immediate future, found the extra effort that had been lacking in their previous two games to take a 3-1 win over the visiting New Jersey Devils in the final regular season game at Amalie Arena.
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New Jersey Devils 3-1 at Amalie Arena in Tampa Saturday night.
Effort, "compete level", whatever you want to call it, was an element absent in the Lightning's previous two games, a bizarre, undeserved shutout win against the Toronto Maple Leafs and an embarrassing blanking at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens.