Steven Stamkos scored once and also set up Alex Killorn's winner with under six minutes to go in regulation as the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 on Thursday.
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 29 shots for Tampa , which became just the second team in NHL history to win more than 60 games in a season. NHL scoring leader Nikita Kucherov added his 40th goal of the season into an empty net.The Leafs wrap up the regular season Saturday in Montreal against the Canadiens, while the Lightning visit the Boston Bruins.
The Leafs pressed for the tie with Andersen on the bench, but Vasilevskiy stopped Patrick Marleau from in tight with his left pad on Toronto's best chance before Kucherov sealed it. The 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings hold the league record with 62 wins, but that came before 3-on-3 overtime and shootouts. The 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens won 60 times over the course of an 80-game schedule.
Tied 1-1 through two period, John Tavares had a chance off a spinning pass from Marner that Vasilevskiy got a piece of about six minutes into the third. Andersen denied Yanni Gourde and Brayden Point on back-to-back efforts off the rush. Andersen then stopped Stamkos, who limped to the bench right before his goal, on another blast and also thwarted Tyler Johnson late in the period.
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