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Victor Hedman passes Dan Boyle as Lightning’s franchise leader in points by a defenseman

Hedman picked up a point on an assist to this beautiful Jonathan Drouin goal.

Drouin scores on the PP and the Lightning tie the score at 1-1 in the second period pic.twitter.com/9DO8c4HWgE

— Jeremy Houghtaling (@JGHoughtaling) December 18, 2016

At the young age of 25 (turning 26 tomorrow), Victor Hedman has claimed the top spot for defensemen in the Lightning record books. The Tampa Bay Lightning have never truly had a franchise defenseman - Dan Boyle was the closest the Bolt ever got, before he was unceremoniously traded during the dreaded OK Hockey ownership era.