The World Championship is probably the most interesting event for the Tampa Bay Lightning fans this spring. The tournament started yesterday in Slovakia and all eight Lightning players played their first games.
Good luck to all of our #Bolts repping their countries in this year’s #IIHFWorlds tourney, officially underway today in Slovakia! u26a1ufe0f
: https://t.co/9hHwq72meL pic.twitter.com/mOOwZeysTR— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) May 10, 2019The Russian team defeated Norway. Andrei Vasilevskiy played the entire game and made 25 stops. Nikita Kucherov scored a power play goal and added an assist on a Nikita Gusev’s goal.