TAMPA, Fla. — With fire in their bellies, the Winnipeg Jets played a game unlike any other this season.
And in the eventual 6-5 shootout loss to the reeling Tampa Bay Lighting, the Jets claimed it might have been their best point of the season.
Rallying from down 3-0 at the end of the first period, the Jets surged back to actually take a 5-4 lead late in the third period.
In the five-minute overtime, they had four point-blank chances to win the game but couldn’t get it to go against Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, and then Steven Stamkos ended a five-round shootout with the winning goal on a wild night.