Following the game on Thursday, both Ondrej Palat and Coach Jon Cooper mentioned that the Tampa Bay Lightning finished the road trip by picking up nine out of twelve points. That’s pretty good! Two of the points that they didn’t earn came last night when they lost to the Detroit Red Wings, 6-4. Not the best way to finish things off, but it’s not the end of the world.
It seems like the Lightning have picked up points against the Red Wings in every game since Sergei Federov wore the red and white so perhaps the hockey gods decided that it was simply time for Detroit to walk away with a clean two points.