Top 3 takeaways from Boston Bruins vs. Tampa Bay Lightning Game 4

1. Tampa’s Big Guns Showed Up

In Game 4 on Saturday, the Tampa Bay Lightning’s best players were their best players. While their third line was once again effective, they were held off the scoresheet, a rarity in this year’s postseason. It didn’t matter because Tampa got what they needed from their best players.

Two of Tampa’s three goals came from Ondrej Palat, who now has four goals and eight points in 12 postseason games. Brayden Point got the lone assist on Palat’s first goal, giving him 10 assists and 16 points so far in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Nikita Kucherov was very active and also picked up two assists, giving him 16 points in 12 games. Even Victor Hedman, who has been relatively quiet this postseason, got his fourth goal and seventh point of the playoffs.

And of course, Andrei Vasilevskiy looked like a Vezina Trophy winner in net, stopping all but one of the 30 shots on goal that he saw. 21 of those shots on goal were in the final 40 minutes.

Tampa didn’t play their strongest game on Saturday. But because their best players stepped up, they still managed to come out with a 3-1 win. It’s hard to stop the Tampa Bay Lightning when their top guys are playing this well.