Tampa Bay isn’t piling up points, especially on the road, while other Atlantic Division teams are surging into the playoff picture.

“I think there was a top four and another four, and that’s how it was for a long time, and that is clearly not the case anymore,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said earlier this week in Toronto.

December 9 - Jake Guentzel scored a tiebreaking power-play goal late in the third period, and the Tampa Bay Lightning opened a four-game Western road trip with a 4-2 victory over the Vancouver ...