Detroit — These sure aren’t the Tampa Bay Lightning that fans have been used to in recent years — but they still find ways to defeat the Red Wings.
Nikita Kucherov scored at 3:28 of overtime to give Tampa a 2-1 overtime victory over the Red Wings Friday night.
It was Tampa’s sixth consecutive win over the Red Wings, and fourth this season.
Henrik Zetterberg scored the goal and goaltender Petr Mrazek stopped 31 shots for the Red Wings.
“Our start wasn’t good enough,” Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “We’ve talked lots about making sure that we’re ultra competitive, that our second and third efforts on pucks is real good and we didn’t come out, we weren’t crisp.