Coach Jon Cooper's team is the hottest in the NHL, riding an eight-game winning streak and outscoring opponents 34-13 over the past month. The run of dominance from elite goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy in net out to everyone else has put the rest of the ...

In taking all three games of their homestand coming out of the 4 Nations Faceoff break, the Lightning (34-20-4, 72 points, third place in the Atlantic) have outscored opponents 11-2. Over their current nine-game point streak dating to Jan. 30, they’ve held opponents to an average of 1.67 goals a game.

Jon Cooper is still riding high after Team Canada's victory at the 4 Nations Face-Off. The Canadian bench boss led his country to Gold in the first best-on-best hockey tournament since 2016.

Ovechkin beat fellow Russian Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning with four minutes left in the third period after getting stopped twice by him earlier.