Monday, 4 a.m.

The Tampa Bay Lightning spend much of Sunday afternoon sleep-walking.

They were dull and uninspired. They got off only one shot in the entire first period. They won only two face-offs. They were one tick above being comatose.

And still, they won.

Somehow, they won. Without Andrei Vasilevskiy in net, without Nikita Kucherov in the lineup, they beat Nashville 3-2 at Benchmark International Arena.

Brandon Hagel and Jake Guentzel each scoreed their 35th goal. Corey Perry scored the winner with 6:52 left.

The Bolts have points in thier last eight games. For the time being, they are tied with Buffalo for first place in the Atlantic Division with 98 points.

Backup goalie Jonas Johanssson stopped 29 of 31 shots.

The Bolts play Montreal at Benchmark at 7 p.m. Tuesday night.