The Tampa Bay Lightning lost 4-2 on the road to the Montreal Canadiens. The Bolts were on the second half of a back to back with travel and it showed. They barely put up any resistance. Normally, it would be easy to write off a game like this but Eddie Pasquale made only his second career start tonight and the AHL veteran put on the performance of his life. Unfortunately, the skaters weren’t able to do anything to support him and he never really had a chance.
Anton Stralman returned to the lineup for Tampa playing on the second pair with Mikhail Sergachev as Victor Hedman remained out with an injury, The Montreal win combined with a Columbus loss puts the two teams back into a tie for the final wild card spot.