Lightning remain hot with victory over Bruins

Brayden Point scored his 42nd goal of the season to break a second-period tie, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 23 saves, and the surging Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Atlantic Division-leading Boston Bruins, 3-1, on Wednesday night.

Tampa Bay also got goals from Mitchell Chaffee and Nikita Kucherov as the host Lightning improved to 7-0-1 over their last eight games. The Lightning moved within two points of third-place Toronto in the Atlantic Division.

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Victor Hedman and Point both returned after missing one game with lowerbody injuries. SENATORS 6, SABRES 2 » Shane Pinto had a goal and three assists, and Ottawa enjoyed a five-goal first-period surge in cruising to a victory at Buffalo.

Artem Zub opened the scoring 2:37 in an outing the Senators led 4-0 by the 8:49 mark of the opening period, and Pinto closed the scoring with an empty-net goal. Brady Tkachuk, Boris Katchouk, Jakob Chychrun and Drake Batherson each had a goal and assist.