Overview
- Tampa Bay edged Pittsburgh 2-1 in a shootout, with Nikita Kucherov netting the decider after regulation ended without him extending his 10-game point streak.
- Andrei Vasilevskiy made 26 saves to earn his eighth straight victory in as many starts, backstopping the club to a run that matches its 2019-20 mark.
- J.J. Moser put the Lightning ahead in the third period before Evgeni Malkin tied it late for the Penguins, who dropped their third straight.
- The surge follows a 5-1 win in Philadelphia that delivered Jon Cooper his 600th NHL coaching victory and extended Kucherov’s recent scoring tear.
- Top-line center Brayden Point exited the Flyers game with a right-knee/lower-body injury and received no definitive update, leaving his near-term availability and Olympic status uncertain.