The exciting heat of the early going was a rangy 4-on-4 thanks to Corey Perry (of course) and Robby Fabbri taking penalties within 30 seconds of each other. The Wings were the better looking of the two squads and parlayed the momentum into dominance for most of the first half of the period.
Unfortunately, the Lightning would draw first blood when Brayden Point would get a breakaway thanks to a nice tic-tac-toe breakout that left three Wings in the dust. Point would make no mistake burying the puck past Husso, 1-0 Lightning.
RU KIDDING ME, POINTER?