Wednesday, 4 a.m.
Suddenly, they have remembered how go plaly hockey.
The Tampa Bay Lightning won for the third straight game Tuesday night, evening their season record at 4-4-2 with a 5-2 win over Nashville.
The Bolts found scoring in strange plays in their victory. Zemgus Girgensons scored two goals -- he scored twice all of last season. Charle-Edouard D'Astous scored his first goal of the year. Brandon Hagel scoed his second goal. Nikita Kucherov scored his fourth on an empty-netter.
Andrei Vasilevskiy won for the second time, stopping 18 of 20 shots.
Nashville trimmed the deficit to 3-2 with 2:06 to play, but the Bolts closed the game out with goals by Kucherov and Girgensons.
For the Bolts, the big goal was the go-ahead shot of D'Astous.
"Good on him," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "He shot it from a little distance but he shot it with author. It looked like he's been doing thast in this league for a long time."
The Bolts are home on Tuesday against Dallas.