Kucherov danced his way to the right faceoff dot, pulling a Detroit defender toward him before cutting back to the right center hashmark. Kucherov shelved his shot into the top right corner of the Detroit net for his 21 st goal of the season.

The Lightning recalled forward prospect Jack Finley on Tuesday afternoon, just hours before their game against the Bruins in Boston. He will make his NHL debut, with Tampa Bay sitting top center Brayden Point for missing a team meeting before the morning skate.

Lightning's Brayden Point scored with 36 seconds left in regulation in a 4-1 win over the Bruins, his 600th career NHL point.

The Tampa Bay Lightning made a bold statement on Tuesday, scratching star forward Brayden Point for their game against the Boston Bruins due to a team policy violation. According to Gabby Shirley of FanDuel Sports Network, Point missed a team meeting, prompting head coach Jon Cooper to bench the two-time Stanley Cup champion.

The Lightning played without their leading goal-scorer, top center Brayden Point, who was scratched for missing a team meeting prior to the morning skate. It forced the team to scramble just to get enough players to fill its roster, recalling 22-year-old forward Jack Finley from AHL Syracuse to make his NHL debut as the 12th forward.

The Lightning have spent all season tweaking their power play, but the looks they showed before Thursday’s game against the Ducks featured a massive shuffling of personnel. During the morning skate, coach Jon Cooper jumbled the two units,

All these years later, the descriptions practically write themselves. Brayden Point? He glides. Nikita Kucherov? He creates. Anthony Cirelli? He bleeds. Those are all compliments, by the way. Shorthand for a signature style of play.

Jake Guentzel, who won a Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh in 2017, had two assists to become the second player in Lightning history with at least 20 goals and 40 points in his first 40 games with the franchise. Guentzel signed a seven-year deal with the team in the offseason.

Anaheim opened the scoring 6:03 into the game on a redirection by forward Troy Terry, but the Lightning tied the score eight minutes later on the power play. Hedman got the puck at the left point and fed forward Brandon Hagel in the right corner, where the latter passed the puck to Anthony Cirelli at the back post for a tap-in and a tie game.

Robby Fabbri, Troy Terry and Leo Carlsson score for the Ducks, who fall to 1-3-1 on their six-game trip when Guentzel scores the only goal for either team in the shootout to hand them a 4-3 defeat.

The Anaheim Ducks and Tampa Bay Lightning faced off for the second time in two weeks last night when they battled for 65 minutes plus a shootout at Amalie Arena in Tampa.