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The Tampa Bay Lightning (1-0-0, 2 points, T-1st Atlantic) visit Motown and Little Caesars Arena on Saturday to play Atlantic division rival the Detroit Red Wings (0-1-0, 0 points, T-5th Atlantic). Tampa Bay opened its regular season with a 5-3 victory over the National Predators on Tuesday. Detroit was defeated in its season opener 4-3 by the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night. Tampa Bay will play without Logan Brown, Tyler Motte, Brent Seabrook and Andrei Vasilevskiy. Detroit will play without Matt Luff. Do you need a boost in your handicapping? Try our NHL Betting picks and light the lamp today!
Tampa Bay opened its regular season scoring five goals against the Nashville Predators. Tampa Bay took an early 1-0 in the first period but fell behind 2-1 in the third period before scoring four of the next five goals, including one empty net goal to give the Lightning its two-goal victory. Tampa Bay goalie Jonas Johansson, playing in place of No. 1 goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, who had September 28th back surgery, stopped 28 shots in goal for the Lightning.
Tampa Bay ranks 5th in goals scored after one game with five and second in goals against with three. Tampa Bay's power play was successful 40% of the time on opening night which is 3rd and its penalty kill unit, at 75%, is 27th. After one game of the regular season, Nicholas Paul and Brayden Point were the points leaders for Tampa Bay with three apiece, Paul has two goals to lead the Lightning while Point has three assists. Nikita Kucherov also scored two goals on opening night. Johansson is 1-0-0 with a 3.00 goals against average and .903 save percentage.
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