There can often be a letdown after a long road trip, especially a west coast one, but the Tampa Bay Lightning matched and surpassed the energy from the Boston Bruins to post a 3-1 victory in a potential preview of the first round of the playoffs. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 23 of 24 while Mitchell Chaffee, Brayden Point, and Nikita Kucherov provided the goals. With his tally, Kucherov moved back ahead of Nathan MacKinnon in the points race.
With the Bruins coming off of a tough, physical game against the Florida Panthers last night, the Lightning were on a mission to lay the body on Boston.