Andrei Vasilevskiy was perfect on a night when the Tampa Bay Lightning and Philadelphia played an entertaining, but low-scoring game that ended with the Bolts victorious by a score of 2-0. Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway, and then assisted on Jake Guentzel’s late power-play goal to broach the 95-point milestone on the season. Ivan Fedotov was the had-luck loser in net as he stopped 17-of-18 shots, including three golden chances by Brandon Hagel.
The first period started off with both teams skating at a pretty good pace, but accomplishing little of actual relevance. The Flyers were the gang that couldn’t shoot straight as five of their first six shot attempts went wide of the net.