DETROIT - The Tampa Bay Lightning's first foray onto the road played out like one of those old barnstorming games where a team storms into town, puts on one entertaining event and quickly moves on to the next town.
The Lightning did just that, escaping Motown with the most unusual of victories they might have ever pulled off.
And if the mantra in the early stages of the season, as head coach Jon Cooper has uttered many times during his tenure, is to just find a way to munch points, then the Lightning put on quite the Pac-Man impersonation despite looking as if Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Bertuzzi ...
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