JakeEvans scored in his fifth straight game ... Montreal up 3-1 with 1:32 left in the second period. Tampa Bay's NikitaKucherov answered 26 seconds later, but Joel Armia and Brendan ...
On a team that has multiple high-end players, Kucherov is leading the Bolts in scoring by a margin of 19, accounting for 47 helpers, 68 points and a plus-14 rating through 42 outings this season.
And then there was the play of goalie Sam Montembeault. Montembeault denied numerous Grade-A scoring chances to keep the Lightning stuck at two goals. In the third period alone, he stopped 14 shots.