The month of October has been an interesting one for the Tampa Bay Lightning and as we wind down the first few weeks of the season, let’s reflect on what’s happened thus far.
To start off the 2016-17 NHL regular season, the Lightning opened up with a four-game homestand and did fairly well, going 3-1-0 before hitting their first road trip of the year. In each of those games, Tampa Bay never scored in the first period, but somehow made up the difference in the following periods.
That trend continued into the road trip, as the Tampa Bay Lightning still have not scored in the first period in all but one game, which was when they scored three in the opening frame against the Toronto Maple Leafs.