The Tampa Bay Lightning won the game last night, beating the Boston Bruins 6–5 in a shootout in the NHL Stadium Series at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

Quick Scoop: What Happened

  • Final score: Tampa Bay Lightning 6, Boston Bruins 5 (decided in a shootout).
  • The game was part of the 2026 Navy Federal Credit Union NHL Stadium Series, played outdoors at Raymond James Stadium.
  • Boston led 5–1 in the second period before Tampa Bay mounted a massive comeback.
  • Nikita Kucherov had a goal plus three assists and scored the game-tying goal in the third period.
  • Jake Guentzel scored the shootout winner for the Lightning.

Why Everyone’s Talking About It

  • The Lightning rallied from four goals down, the first time in franchise history they’ve erased that big a deficit to win.
  • The comeback turned their first outdoor home game into an instant classic, with more than 60,000 fans in attendance.
  • The final sequence: Kucherov tied it 5–5 in the third, overtime ended scoreless, and Guentzel’s shootout goal sealed it after David Pastrnak hit the post on Boston’s last attempt.

In short: if you went to bed early, you missed a wild one — the Lightning pulled off a historic 6–5 shootout win over the Bruins under the lights in Tampa.

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