Facts and Figures: Lightning strike for 59th win

The Tampa Bay Lightning moved within three victories of the NHL single-season record when they rallied from two goals down in the third period to defeat the Boston Bruins 5-4 at Amalie Arena on Monday.

Steven Stamkos had four points (two goals, two assists), NHL scoring leader Nikita Kucherov tied the game 4-4 with 6:45 remaining in the third and Anthony Cirelli scored the game-winner with 52.2 seconds left for the Lightning (59-14-4), who are three wins shy of the
NHL record
set by the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings (62).
Tampa Bay's 122 points are
sixth in NHL history
. The Lightning have five games remaining and can tie the record of 132 set by the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens (60-8 with 12 ties in 80 games) by winning out.
The Lightning have yet to lose more than once to an Eastern Conference opponent this season. They've lost six times within the East -- once each to the Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins and Toronto Maple Leafs. The only teams to defeat the Lightning twice this season are from the Western Conference -- the Nashville Predators, St. Louis Blues and Minnesota Wild.
The win was the Lightning's 32nd at home this season, matching their record set in 2014-15. Tampa Bay is 9-6-0 when trailing by multiple goals in a game, tied with the Calgary Flames for the NHL lead in multigoal comeback wins overall, and their three multigoal comebacks in the third period are tied for the NHL lead with the New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers.

Tavares scores four on milestone night for Maple Leafs

John Tavares scored four goals to help the Maple Leafs outlast the Florida Panthers 7-5 at Scotiabank Arena. The Maple Leafs have scored 271 goals this season, second to the Lightning (300). It was the 20th game this season (1,117 games played) to feature at least 12 goals (including shootout goals), the most at this stage of a season since 1995-96 (34).
Tavares has scored an NHL career-high 45 goals, second in the NHL to Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin (48). He has 86 points, matching his NHL career high set with the Islanders in 2014-15. Tavares surpassed Eddie Olczyk (42 in 1987-88) for the most goals in his first season with the Maple Leafs. The only player to score more goals than Tavares in his first full season with Toronto is Dave Andreychuk, who scored 53 in 1993-94 after joining the team during 1992-93.
Mitchell Marner had three assists, giving him 90 points (25 goals, 65 assists). The 21-year-old is the youngest player in Maple Leafs history to have 90 points in a season and the first to have that many since Mats Sundin in 1996-97 (94 points; 41 goals, 53 assists). Marner's 65 assists are the most by a Toronto player since Doug Gilmour had 84 in 1993-94 and the
fifth-most
in Maple Leafs history.
Morgan Rielly had two assists, giving him 70 points (20 goals, 50 assists). He is the third defenseman in Maple Leafs history, and the first in 39 years, to have at least 70 points in a season, joining Borje Salming (1976-77, 1977-78, 1978-79 and 1979-80) and Ian Turnbull (1976-77). Rielly also joined Salming (five times), Turnbull (twice) and Tomas Kaberle (2005-06) as the only defensemen in Maple Leafs history to have 50 assists in a season.

Predators clinch fifth straight playoff appearance by defeating Wild

The Nashville Predators became the fourth Western Conference team to clinch a berth in the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs by defeating the Minnesota Wild 1-0 at Xcel Energy Center. Juuse Saros made 29 saves in his third shutout of the season for Nashville (43-28-6), which is two points behind the Winnipeg Jets for first place in the Central Division.
After missing the playoffs in each of its first five seasons after joining the NHL in 1998, Nashville has qualified in 12 of the past 15 since 2003-04, including the past five. The other teams to make at least 12 postseason appearances during that span are the San Jose Sharks (14), Red Wings (12) and Penguins (12).

Blues keep pace with Predators

The St. Louis Blues remained two points behind Nashville and moved within four of the first-place Jets in the Central Division by defeating the Vegas Golden Knights 3-1 at Enterprise Center.
The Blues (41-27-8) won for the fifth time in six games and prevented the Golden Knights (42-28-6) from clinching a playoff berth.
One team in NHL history has won its division after sitting last in the NHL at any point after its 20th game of the season. The 2007-08 Capitals
were last through 30 games
before
winning the Southeast Division
.

Seguin, Laine join 30-goal club

Dallas Stars center Tyler Seguin and Jets forward Patrik Laine became the 37th and 38th players to reach the 30-goal mark this season. Seguin scored twice and Laine had a goal in a 5-2 victory by the Stars against the Jets at Bell MTS Place.
Radek Faksa and scored twice for the Stars (39-31-6), who lead the Colorado Avalanche by three points for the first wild card into the playoffs from the Western Conference. Seguin reached the 30-goal mark for the fifth time in six seasons since joining the Stars in 2013-14. He is the sixth player in Stars/Minnesota North Stars history to have at least five 30-goal seasons; Mike Modano is tops with nine.
Laine has scored at least 30 goals in each of his three NHL seasons and is

to reach the milestone this season. At 20 years, 340 days, Laine joined Jimmy Carson, Dale Hawerchuk and Wayne Gretzky as the fourth player in NHL history to reach the 30-goal mark in three seasons before turning 21. Gretzky's third 30-goal season came in 1981-82, when he scored 61 of his NHL-record 92 goals before his 21st birthday Jan. 26, 1982.