The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-1 on Saturday night at Amalie Arena in Tampa.
It might be something of a stretch to say the Lightning are “back” (however you choose to define that), at least as long as key contributors shuffle in and out of the lineup with varying degrees of injury. But to their credit, the measures they’re taking to keep their heads above water until they get some of those players back on a consistent basis are yielding positive results. 19,092 were on hand for the team’s 84th consecutive sellout at Amalie Arena and witnessed a victory to cap off 2016.