Players from the Tampa Bay Lightning lost to the Los Angeles Kings in a National Hockey League (NHL) regular season contest.
National Hockey League (NHL)
December 19, 2025 • start at 03:00
Completed
Tampa Bay
1 : 2
Los Angeles
12:54 • Oliver Bjorkstrand
(Anthony Cirelli, Jake Guentzel)
25:21 • Adrian Kempe
(Anze Kopitar, Corey Perry)
35:58 • Adrian Kempe
Schedule
Standings
Head-to-head
The encounter, which took place in Tampa, concluded with a triumph for the visitors by a score of 2:1 (0:1, 2:0, 0:0). For the Kings, Adrian Kempe scored twice (26th and 36th minutes). The home team’s goal scorer was Oliver Bjorkstrand (13th).
Tampa’s Russian forward Nikita Kucherov missed the game due to illness. Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy played his first game after an injury and repelled 18 shots out of 20. Los Angeles forward Andrei Kuzmenko registered one shot on goal frame and blocked two shots.
In other NHL championship games that day, a feed from Russian forward Ivan Demidov helped the Montreal Canadiens defeat the Chicago Blackhawks (4:1), the Pittsburgh Penguins, without Evgeni Malkin, fell to the Ottawa Senators (0:4), and the Edmonton Oilers prevailed over the Boston Bruins (3:1).
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