LIGHTNING NOTES
Tampa Bay received their second straight sport on Thursday, defeating the New Jersey Devils 8-4. Oliver Bjorkstrand (2G) netted a pair of objectives whereas Jake Guentzel, Brandon Hagel, Brayden Level, Darren Raddysh, Nick Paul and Pontus Holmberg all discovered the again of the web. Jonas Johansson made 33 saves on 37 pictures confronted.
Nikita Kucherov notched 4 assists within the 8-4 win. Kucherov now has seven four-assist video games in his profession and thirty fourth profession four-point sport. Solely Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid have extra four-point video games amongst energetic NHL gamers.
Andrei Vasilevskiy (undisclosed) was positioned on IR on Monday. Vasilevskiy hasn’t performed because the Lightning’s 2-1 loss to the Islanders on Dec. 2. He’s 11-6-2 with a 2.31 GAA, .917 SV% and one shutout this season. Vasilevskiy practiced with the group on Friday, however he won’t play as his IR designation means he has to sit down out no less than seven days.
Jonas Johansson has been carrying the majority of the workload with Vasilevskiy out, as he has began in 5 consecutive video games for the Lightning. He’s 2-3-0 with a 2.26 GAA and .920 SV% in that stretch. Johansson is 1-4-0 with a 3.86 GAA and .877 SV% in opposition to the Islanders in his profession.
Victor Hedman was positioned again on IR on Thursday and is anticipated to be out till early February, proper forward of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Hedman missed almost a month with harm till he returned to motion on Dec. 6 in opposition to the Isles. He performed in three straight video games earlier than returning to IR.
Dominic James is listed as day-to-day. James scored the one Tampa Bay objective of their two clashes with the Islanders. The rookie has 5 factors (2G, 3A) in 19 video games this season.
Tampa Bay owns the second-best penalty kill proportion within the NHL at 85.9%.
On the facility play, the Lightning rank twenty second within the NHL (17.9%), nonetheless, they capitalized on two of their three man-advantage alternatives on Thursday night time.
Tampa Bay is 10-4-2 on the highway this season, together with 2-2-0 in December.
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