The Tampa Bay Lightning (10-3-2) defeated the Chicago Blackhawks (4-12-1) 4-1 on Thursday night at Benchmark International Arena. With the win, the Lightning improved to 8-0-0 at home to start the season.
Ilya Mikheyev scored twice for Tampa Bay, who also got goals from Victor Hedman and Ryan McDonagh. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 25 saves on the night - the only Blackhawks goal came from Roman Kantserov with fifty seconds to go in the game.
The Lightning go on the road for the next four games begininng when they go to Minnesota to play the Wild on Satruday. Puck drop between the Lightning and Wild is scheduled for 8:00 PM on Saturday night.
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