This was a night that had lots of positives and lots of negatives. Although this was some of the most consistent, well put together hockey the Tampa Bay Lightning have played within the last few months, the Bolts also lost Tyler Johnson, Cedric Paquette, and Vladislav Namestnikov to lower-body injuries. And that plain sucked.
1st Period 2-0
The Bolts found themselves with the man-advantage rather early. Seconds into the power play after a faceoff win by Tyler Johnson, the puck was kicked out to Victor Hedman. Hedman then found Nikita Kucherov at the top of the right circle and through an odd double screen by Ondrej Palat and Johnson, found the back of the net.