NHL Recaps: Monday, Oct 16, 2017

1 game: what happened that matters for your fantasy team, built from the play-by-play and shift charts.

Game recaps

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Tampa Bay Lightning

Detroit Red Wings

Tampa Bay Lightning edge Detroit Red Wings 3–2

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Detroit Red Wings 3–2 at DET. Nikita Kucherov (TBL) led the scoring with 2G 0A. TBL's first power-play unit (Killorn, Stamkos, Hedman, Kucherov and Namestnikov) scored 1 power-play goal on 7 attempts in 3:53 together.

•Nikita Kucherov had two goals (2 points) on 6 shots in 20:50.
•Justin Abdelkader had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 18:13.
•Steven Stamkos had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 19:40.

Full report: shot map, shifts, lines, box score →

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
Nikita Kucherov TBL	at DET	2	0	2	6	0	0	20:50	—
Justin Abdelkader DET	vs TBL	1	1	2	2	0	1	18:13	—
Steven Stamkos TBL	at DET	0	2	2	2	1	0	19:40	—

Goalie notes

Goalie	Game	Dec	SA	GA	SV%
Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL	at DET	W	31	2	.935
Jimmy Howard DET	vs TBL	L	26	3	.885

Next up: tonight's starting goalies, today's line combinations and today's games. Takeaways are generated from the numbers with fixed rules; nothing is written by a language model.