It got silly. It got stupid by the end of it,” Florida forward Evan Rodrigues said. “It wasn't really hockey out there.”

After opening Saturday’s second game of the season with one of the worst first periods imaginable, the Lightning’s focus had to be on chipping away at a

The New Jersey Devils went down into the Sunshine State and put on a scoring clinic in their win over the Tampa Bay Lightning, 5-3. They picked up their first win of the season, while the Lightning find themselves winless at the end of their first homestand of the season.

Shane Pinto scored his second goal of the night late in the third period to lift the Ottawa Senators to a 5-4 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the opener for both clubs.

Jesper Bratt put the Devils ahead 4-2 at 4:48 of the third period, scoring short-handed on a breakaway. Brown made it 5-2 at 6:29 when he whipped a shot from the right circle that went off the bottom of Vasilevskiy's blocker and in at the far post.