It’s not every day that a goaltender is the best player on the ice when his team wins by four goals, but that was the case as the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 5-1, behind Andrei Vasilevskiy’s 39 saves. Tampa Bay also cooled off the league’s best power play as they went 5-for-6 short-handed while converting 2-of-3 power plays. Nikita Kucherov piled up three more points on the night, including his 600th career assist.
Max Crozier made his season debut in place of Erik Cernak and had a solid net, finishing with two shots on net, three blocked shots, and four hits in 14:25 of ice time.