Bishop stopped 22 of 28 shots, and Radek Faksa scored the lone goal for the Stars who fell to 9-9-1 on the season and finished their three-game road trip with a 0-2-1 record. The Stars were outscored 14-4 during the three games excluding the goal Florida was awarded for defeating the Stars in a shootout on Tuesday.
"We can be better. We can live in the dream world that it's unfair, but we are what we are," said Stars coach Ken Hitchcock. "We are giving up way too many goals. On this trip we gave up 14 or 15 goals. You can't do that. You can't play this way and be successful. So that's the base we have to start from; we have to start keeping it out of our net. We've got to be better defensively. We've got to be better across the board defensively. Let's start from there."
Steven Stamkos tallied four points (two goals, two assists), Nikita Kucherov recorded three points (one goal, two assists), and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 27 shots as the Lightning won their fifth straight game and improved their league-leading record to 15-2-2.
"It seems like we're relying on one line, but everyone is contributing, especially our defense. Everybody's chipping in," said Lightning coach Jon Cooper. "In the end, [the Stamkos] line is going to get a lot of accolades, but Brayden Point's line went against Jamie Benn for 21 minutes tonight."