TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Lightning had a big offensive night without high-scoring Nikita Kucherov.
Alex Killorn and Jonathan Drouin scored power-play goals 1:51 apart late in the second period and the Lightning beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-3 on Thursday.
J.T. Brown, Andrej Sustr and Yanni Gourde also scored for the Lightning, who are three points behind Boston for the second Eastern Conference wild card. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 31 saves.
Kucherov sat out due to illness as Tampa Bay swept the five-game season series with the Red Wings.