Burns: 3 Things from a shootout win against Ottawa

Tampa Bay's 4-3 shootout win over Ottawa at AMALIE Arena on Thursday won't win any awards for beautiful-constructed goals or stand-on-your-head goaltending.
Resilience, however, the Lightning had that covered.
Tampa Bay rallied three separate times from a one-goal deficit to defeat the Senators and win its eighth game out of its last nine. The Lightning never led Ottawa until the very end when Steven Stamkos' Third Round shootout attempt beat Senators goaltender Craig Anderson.

The Bolts improved to 25-7-2 on the season. They have a franchise-record 52 points in 34 games. The previous franchise record for points through 34 games was 44 set in 2014-15.
The Lightning rebounded after a heartbreaking last-second loss in Vegas to cap what had been a very successful road trip.
How was Tampa Bay able to bounce back?
We'll recap the Bolts-Sens matchup in Three Things we learned from a shootout victory.

1. NO PANIC
Ottawa scored a little more than six minutes into the contest on the flukiest goal to go against the Lightning so far this season.
Bobby Ryan's initial shot in close was saved by Andrei Vasilevskiy. Lightning defenseman Dan Girardi was there to sweep the rebound away, but his clearing attempt struck Braydon Coburn in the leg and ricocheted straight past Vasilevskiy and into the Lightning goal.
At that point, a Tampa Bay team tired from a long day of travel on Wednesday and dejected following an unlucky loss in Vegas could have hung its heads.
Instead, the Bolts picked up their play.
The Lightning built off the momentum of killing a brief 5-on-3 power play for Ottawa late in the first period with more inspired play in the second. Nearly 12 minutes into the middle frame, Nikita Kucherov wristed a shot from the top of the right circle that Tyler Johnson deflected into net to tie the game.
Less than three minutes later, Ottawa regained the lead on Cody Ceci's nifty backhander in close.
The Lightning responded almost immediately, Yanni Gourde slamming home Cory Conacher's pass across the open goal mouth 1:06 later to tie the game 2-2.
Again, Ottawa went back in front, this time netting a power-play marker six minutes into the third.
Again, the Lightning fought their way back, Vladislav Namestnikov following Victor Hedman's saved shot with a rebound goal to knot the score 3-3 and eventually force overtime and a shootout.
"I thought it was a good game considering the fact that we've been on the road for so long," Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said after the game. "Let's not kid ourselves, it was a tough travel day yesterday. To have that long flight back from Vegas and the time change, to come out and play the way we did, I'm proud of the group."

2. MONEY IN THE BANK
Brayden Point was 0-for-2 on shootout attempts coming into Thursday's game against Ottawa.
But it was only a matter of time before he broke out of the mini slump.
Point was first over the boards for the Lightning in the shootout, and he made his First Round attempt look routine, almost effortless, to give the Bolts an early boost in the skills competition.
Tyler Johnson was asked after the game what makes Point so good in shootouts.
His response was priceless.
"I wish I could tell you because then I could just replicate it," Johnson said, smiling.
Point was easily the Lightning's best shootout taker during his rookie season last year, making 71.4 percent of his attempts (5 of 7).
His confident attempt on Thursday gave the Bolts a bit of breathing room they hadn't enjoyed the entire game.
"He has his moves that he does and they seem to just work for him," Johnson said. "He doesn't really change too much, but they always seem to go in."
With Andrei Vasilevskiy stoning Tom Pyatt and Matt Duchene, the Lightning turned to Stamkos to close out the victory in the Third Round, and the captain rose to the occasion for his second successful shootout attempt in as many tries this season.
Stamkos, who hasn't always been a reliable shootout taker, was asked after the game what, if anything, has changed about his approach to shootouts this season.
"I'll keep that a secret in case any other goalies are paying attention to this interview," he joked. "No secret that I've struggled in the past in the shootout, and I've had a different approach the last three or four times and it's worked. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing."

3. HEDDY THE HORSE
The Lightning have had one of the most offensively-gifted defensive corps in the NHL this season, thanks in large part to the emergence of rookie defenseman Mikhail Sergachev.
But over the first quarter of the season, Victor Hedman, a first-time NHL All-Star and Norris Trophy finalist in 2016-17, hadn't been able to replicate the career year offensively he put together last season.
Since the game in St. Louis, however, Hedman has found his stride. The 6-foot-6 Swede tallied two assists against Ottawa to extend his season-long point streak to five games.
Hedman has two goals and seven assists over that stretch.
And he's asserting himself more offensively too. In a win over Arizona on December 14, he took eight shots, a season high for the Lightning.
On Thursday, he one-upped himself, putting nine on frame.
"I've been shooting a little bit more, creating some scrambles and moving a little more in the offensive zone," Hedman said. "It's all about a little offensive-zone confidence, it comes down to that. You get a few bounces and you start to feel better. I felt pretty good all year, but the last few games it's been more production offensively, playing big minutes, that's what I want to do. I want to play in both ends of the ice and shut down the other team's top line down too, so it's a fine line. But when you can get on the ice with some of these world-class players and start moving in the offensive zone, they're going to find you eventually."
Quietly, Hedman has climbed the leaderboard of NHL defensemen scoring leaders. He came into Thursday's game tied for sixth in the league after spending most of the season buried down in the low teens. He now ranks tied for fifth, just four points behind league leader John Klingberg.
"Victor's definitely in beast mode right now," Cooper said. "It's been fun to watch. He can command and take over a game. Right now, he's feeling it. He's a big reason why we won tonight."