Wednesday, 4 a.m.
They are a forest fire. They are a shooting star. They are noontime in the desert.
They are the Tampa Bay Lightning, and man, are they hot.
The Bolts won their eighth straight game Tuesday night at Benchmark International Arena, beating Colorado, the best team in the NHL, 4-2.
Tampa Bay broke a 2-2 tie with 11:29 to play on a shot by Brandon Hagel. It was Hagel's 20th goal of the season.
Anthony Cirelli scored an empty netter with 1:25 to play.
The Bolts took a 1-0 lead on Jake Guentzel's 19th goal.
Colorado took a 2-1 lead on goals by Parker Kelly and Brock Nelson. Zemgus Girgensons scored late in the second period to tie the game at 2.
The Bolts played a strong defensive game against the high-scoring Avs. Colorado star Nathan MacKinnon went scoreless and had a minus-two rating for the game.
Goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 31 of 33 shots.
The Bolts travel to Philadelphia To face the Flyers at 7 p.m. on Saturday, and again on Monday, at the Xfinity Mobile Arena.
