The Tampa Bay Lightning were hoping to get healthy following a three-day Christmas break, but the injuries continue to pile up for the injury-riddled Bolts.

A night after getting Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat back, the Lightning lost another valuable forward.

The team announced Thursday morning rookie center Brayden Point will miss the next four to six weeks with an upper-body injury. Point sustained the injury late in the Montreal game after tallying an assist on Palat's game-tying goal at 16:30 of the third period.

"It kind of just fits in with everything that's going on with us," Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said. "Right when you think you're taking steps to get healthier, you take two steps back."


Cooper also announced Cedric Paquette (lower-body injury) and Vladislav Namestnikov (upper-body injury) would miss tonight's game versus Toronto. Both are day-to-day. Ryan Callahan remains out with a lower-body injury.

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