As I was driving to Amalie Arena before the game I said there was one thing the Tampa Bay Lightning desperately needed: (1) Their other stars in Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, and Andrei Vasilevskiy had to step up. (2) The Lightning needed their star power back after losing their captain Steven Stamkos in Thursday’s 4-2 win against Chicago.
Before yesterday’s game, Point only had 3 points in all of November. For this reason, the Lightning’s top center was due for a big game, and that he had.