At some point the chances will start going in for the Tampa Bay Lightning, but where will they be in the playoff race when it happens. It was another night of seeing prime scoring opportunities hit the iron, go wide, get blocked, or stopped by the opposing goaltender. On this night it was Ilya Sorokin playing the role of spoiler as he stopped 28 Lightning shots in a 3-2 Islanders overtime win.
On a night where Andrei Vasilevsky turned aside 33 shots, the Lightning offense came up short again as Jake Guentzel and Nikita Kucherov were the lone goalscorers against a make-shift Islanders defense that held them to just 12 high-danger chances.