Bishop earns 100th win with Lightning, beats Red Wings 3-1

Jaromir Jagr notched a goal and added two assists and Vincent Trocheck scored twice and pitched in a helper to power the Florida Panthers to an entertaining 6-3 victory over the visiting Detroit Red Wings.

Before you decide to automatically count the Lightning out of this one, allow us to remind you there is one glaring difference between the Tampa Bay Lightning we see now and the Bolts the Red Wings met earlier this season…determination.

“We have a little bit of a budding rivalry with these guys”, Cooper said.

“Just in terms of tonight, I’d put way more, I guess if there was blame to be placed, it’d would be on the PK”. “We’ve got to get that thing going for sure to get our team going”.

According to oddsmakers at RealBets, Tampa Bay is favored at home tonight, as the Lightning are getting odds of -160 to win, while the Red Wings are getting a money line of +145 to win.

“I don’t think we’re shooting enough like we did last year – we had a lot of rebound goals last year because we were putting pucks on net”, Nyquist said of Detroit’s continued struggles on the power play.

Nikita Kucherov, J.T. Brown and Tyler Johnson scored for the Lightning.

The Lightning has found ways to win, and it will need to continue to play catchup after an average first half of the season.

WASHINGTON – Alex Ovechkin scored the winning goal in his return from a one-game suspension for skipping the All-Star Game, and the Washington Capitals avoided a third straight loss by beating the New York Islanders 3-2 on Thursday night.

Spacey, the focal point of the team’s “Spacey In Space” sweatshirt awarded to top players after victories, was shown leafing through various team jerseys before coming upon his own with the number 1738 on the back. And perhaps more important it has played with the lead, scoring first in seven of those nine games.

Aleksander Barkov, who centers Jagr and Huberdeau, and Jussi Jokinen each are riding four-game point streaks and Reilly Smith has scored four goals in five contests.

NOTES: Bishop has 115 National Hockey League wins overall. “At the start of the season, teams were taking some liberties here”. Detroit scored to start the game in both previous matchups at Joe Louis Arena earlier this season and was able to sit on the lead while choking the life out of the Lightning attack.

Larkin beat Luongo from point-blank range in the slot with 5.5 seconds left in the period to get Detroit on the board, then cut the lead to 3-2 on an unassisted goal 1:01 into the second.

“We just don’t force as many plays in the game”, Kucherov said.

“I know it’s pretty remarkable”, Stralman said. “We’ve got to be ready for it, and we believe we will”.