Victor Hedman and Patrick Maroon returned to the lineup as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 in the first game of the NHL Global Series in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Bolts went with a new-look top line of Tyler Johnson, Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov to start the game, and they came through huge for the Lightning early. Linus Ullmark was fantastic for Buffalo, but even he couldn’t stem the tide for the Sabres, who lost their fourth straight game.