Burns: 3 things from the Bolts downing the Jets

For the first time since the 2015-16 season, the Tampa Bay Lightning have swept a home stand of four or more games.
The Winnipeg Jets were the Bolts' latest victim. On Saturday at AMALIE Arena, the Lightning rallied from deficits of 1-0 and 3-2 to defeat the Jets 4-3 in overtime, Brayden Point netting the game-winner 36 seconds into the extra session.
The Lightning have won four in a row for the third time this season and are one more win from tying their season-long win streak of five set November 11-16.

Saturday's contest featured plenty of the back-and-forth action one would expect between two of the top teams in the NHL, the Lightning making just enough plays in the end to prevail.
We'll break down the three biggest in Three Things we learned from downing the Jets.

1. POWER SURGE
The Lightning power play has been deadly all season. The Bolts have ranked at or near the top of the NHL standings for power-play percentage since pretty much Opening Night.
But, of late, the unit has been even more lethal.
Trailing 1-0 near the end of the first period on Saturday, the power play gave the Lightning a spark yet again, Yanni Gourde slamming home Brayden Point's cross-ice pass on the back post to level the score.
The Lightning have netted a power-play goal in nine-straight games following their marker against the Jets, just one game from matching the franchise record for consecutive games with a power-play goal (10) set all the way back during the 2005-06 season.
"The big thing is being able to have two units you can throw out there and have utmost confidence that something good's going to happen," Lightning head coach Jon Cooper told the assembled media at his postgame press conference. "It seems if Stammer's group's not putting it in the net, Pointer's group is and vice versa. When you're a threat in special teams, it can be a head game for the opposing team. Huge goal, which another great play by Pointer on the power-play goal. Ultimately, it's depth, and we have it in the special teams group and it's really helped us."
During their nine-game stretch with at least one power-play goal, five of the goals have come from Point's power-play group. Four have come from Stamkos' unit, underscoring how opposing teams can't let up during the two minutes because both groups are equally dangerous.
That, more than anything, has led to the Bolts unprecedented power-play success.

2. SERGY'S SPIN
Mikhail Sergachev has been a revelation in his rookie season and first year in the Lightning organization.
No other defenseman in the NHL is averaging as many points per 60 minutes as Sergachev. He leads all Lightning D-men for scoring and ranks in the top 10 among League blueliners, despite averaging less than 15 minutes a game where all the defensemen ahead of him in the standings are logging at least 21 minutes and more likely 26 or 27 minutes a game.
With Saturday's contest tied 1-1 in the second period, Sergachev again provided a lift for the Lightning. The Russian received a pass from Tyler Johnson along the boards and wheeled between the circles with Nikolaj Ehlers chasing. Using his 6-foot-3 frame and left arm to ward off Ehlers while keeping the puck on his stick at a safe distance with his right, Sergachev spun around in the slot, quickly got the puck into a shooting position and shot past Connor Hellebuyck to give the Lightning their first lead of the game.
"The confidence is probably the big thing. He just feels like he can make the play," Cooper said. "Ninety-eight percent of the time, you want that. There's a two percent where you're like, 'Whoa.' You've got to look at his physical attributes too. He's a big, strong kid and he can really skate. And so he uses all those things to his advantage. But in the end, you've got to have that confidence to be able to make plays other guys aren't willing to do. And he has that but he's also got the talent to pull it off, and that's what he's been doing so far."
The go-ahead goal was an incredibly impressive shot for any player in the NHL, but particularly a defenseman playing just his 33rd game in the League.

3. A PERFECT POINT TO SCORE
Brayden Point made an incredible individual play to end the game in overtime.
Anton Stralman hit Point with a pass as Point was crossing the center line. With Bryan Little defending him and attempting to poke the puck away, Point faked going inside and then slipped outside to shake Little. With no one between him and Hellebuyck, Point got the puck on his backhand and lifted a shot over Hellebuyck's right leg pad to send AMALIE Arena into a frenzy.
Point now leads all NHL players for overtime goals with three.
"Brayden Point, what a player," Tyler Johnson joked to the media at his locker room stall with Point sitting at the stall right next to him. "…Once he got that breakaway, I think everyone was already over the boards before it even went in."
The Lightning's confidence in Point isn't unfounded. Point was Tampa Bay's best player in shootouts last season. So, with the game on the line, who would you want with the winning goal on his stick on an overtime breakaway?
Probably Brayden Point
"He's been an instrumental player in where we are in the standing all year long," Cooper said. "Naturally, you've got Stammer and Kuch and Vladdy who have done a phenomenal job for us and seem to get points every single night, which obviously we can't win without. There are a lot of nights where Pointer is up against (the opposition's) top line or one of the top lines every night, and he's done a really good job on the penalty kill for us. You're just always glad when guys who work that hard get rewarded and he deserved that."