The Lightning recalled forward prospect Jack Finley on Tuesday afternoon, just hours before their game against the Bruins in Boston. He will make his NHL debut, with Tampa Bay sitting top center Brayden Point for missing a team meeting before the morning skate.

Brayden Point scored the game-winner in the final minute to give Tampa Bay a 3-2 win, snapping their four-game losing streak.

The Lightning played without their leading goal-scorer, top center Brayden Point, who was scratched for missing a team meeting prior to the morning skate. It forced the team to scramble just to get enough players to fill its roster, recalling 22-year-old forward Jack Finley from AHL Syracuse to make his NHL debut as the 12th forward.

Putting the puck on Brayden Point’s stick in front of the net with the game on the line is, without question, a scoring chance anyone on the Lightning bench would gladly take. Entering the final minute of Tuesday night’s game against Carolina,

For those who say that stars have privileges in the NHL, the Lightning just proved the opposite. Indeed, the team, which is far from guaranteed a playoff spot, will sit one of its best players, Brayden Point,

Jake Guentzel, who won a Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh in 2017, had two assists to become the second player in Lightning history with at least 20 goals and 40 points in his first 40 games with the franchise. Guentzel signed a seven-year deal with the team in the offseason.

(AP) Brayden Point scored with 52 seconds to play and the Tampa Bay ... Pytor Kochetkov finished with 31 saves. Nikita Kucherov found Point cutting to the slot where he received the pass and spun around to his forehand to snap a shot past Kochetkov on ...

(AP) Brayden Point scored with 52 seconds to play and ... Pytor Kochetkov finished with 31 saves. Nikita Kucherov found Point cutting to the slot where he received the pass and spun around to ...