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DETROIT -- The Tampa Bay Lightning may be without star Steven Stamkos once again.On the bright side, theyre getting good at winning without him.Nikita Kucherov scored his second goal of the game with 1:10 left, helping the Lightning beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 even after Stamkos left with a lower-body injury.Stamkos scored early but then exited midway through the first period. He limped off the ice favoring his right leg following a collision with Detroits Gustav Nyquist along the boards.Hell be evaluated again tomorrow, Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. Its unfortunate that he couldnt come back, because he was helping us before he got hurt, but it is too early to speculate on anything right now.Stamkos missed all but one game during the last postseason after having surgery for a blood clot April 4. Despite his absence, Tampa Bay advanced to the conference finals, where it lost in seven games to the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins. Stamkos returned for Game 7, a 2-1 loss.This was Tampa Bays second win in two nights after beating the New York Islanders 4-0 on Monday night.Kucherov had three goals and an assist over the two games.This is huge for us, Kucherov said. We just kept executing our game plan and it got us the goal we needed.Defenseman Nikita Nesterov also scored for Tampa Bay, which has won five of eight (5-2-1). Vladislav Namestnikov had two assists and Ben Bishop made 25 saves.Defenseman Ryan Sproul got his first career goal and had an assist, and Frans Nielsen and Henrik Zetterberg also scored for Detroit. Petr Mrazek stopped 18 shots.Well we got it close, but we need the points, Zetterberg said. You cant keep losing games if you want to be a team battling for the playoffs.Kucherov one-timed a shot past Mrazek from the inside edge of the left circle off a loose puck -- a shot was blocked by Drew Miller and caromed right to Kucherov -- for his eighth goal of the season.I just didnt see the puck coming from the blue line, Mrazek said. I tried to find it, looking over the shoulder, slide a little bit there. We made a nice block but it went straight onto Kucherovs stick.Sproul made it 3-2 with a power-play goal 7:12 into the third period, beating Bishop with a shot from the right circle.Zetterberg tied it with a power-play goal nearly 2 1/2 minutes later as he put Anthony Manthas behind-the-back, cross-crease pass into an empty net. It was Zetterbergs third goal.Nesterov made it 3-1 with a power-play goal 1:29 into the third, beating Mrazek with a screened shot from the blue line in the middle of the ice. It was Nesterovs first goal and point of the season.Kucherov opened the scoring 3:30 into the game, taking advantage of Mrazeks misplay of the puck behind the net by stuffing the puck in from the side for his seventh.Stamkos made it 2-0 at 6:09 when he put in a rebound for his ninth.Nielsen put Detroit on the scoreboard with 1:19 left in the first period. He beat Bishop with a backhand shot from the left circle for his third.NOTE: Tampa Bay LW Jonathan Drouin missed his seventh game because of an upper-body injury and D Anton Strahlman missed his second game with an upper-body injury. ... Red Wings D Niklas Kronwall did not play because he was resting his knees. He has chronic knee issues and was replaced in the lineup by Sproul. . Detroit C Darren Helm left the game after a hit by Nesterov about five minutes into the third period. 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Coach (Chris Collins) always was telling me this week that the law of averages will come out. Maybe there is a little jump in the averages, said McIntosh.John Collins had 12 points and 16 rebounds and Keyshawn Woods added 12 points for Wake Forest (5-2).Woods 3 cut the Northwestern lead to 61-58 with 30.3 seconds left, but Sanjay Lumpkin scored four straight points to finish the game off for the Wildcats.I thought with three minutes to go in the game, we were right there. Northwestern didnt let us make enough plays to win the game and they made the plays down the stretch, said Wake Forest coach Danny Manning.Scottie Lindsey added 12 points and Lumpkin finished with 10 points and seven rebounds for Northwestern.Lumpkins defense limited the 6-10 Collins in the second half.To see the plays Sanjay Lumpkin made by guarding John Collins the last 10 minutes of the game by giving up six inches, tons of weight, he wouldnt let him touch the ball. Sanjay Lumpkin was magnificent tonight in his own way, said Collins.McIntosh had to leave the game early in the second half after taking a shot to the face. After being tended to on the ssideline he returned to ignite a 6-0 Northwestern run.ddddddddddddIm really proud of my team tonight. That was kind of a good ole fashioned fist fight, in my opinion, said Collins.Trailing 42-38, McIntosh scored the games next six points to give the Wildcats a 44-42 lead with 11:01 in the second half.BIG PICTUREWake Forest: The Demon Deacons began a stretch on Monday where they play four of their five opponents on the opposing teams home court.Northwestern: After not being able to close out Notre Dame in the final seconds last week, the Wildcats bounced back with a win over another power five opponent. Last week, they defeated Texas, which was ranked No. 22 at the time.HOOSIERSAfter taking an elbow to his face McIntosh had a flashback to one of his favorite movies. I think my favorite part is when I came out. Im a big Hoosiers fan, obviously, because Im from Indiana. I heard coach, `patch him up, patch him up. And for whatever reason it took me back to the movie Hoosiers, said McIntosh.STAY IN THE GAMEManning wants to see his, big man, Collins stay out of foul trouble.He could break out a little bit more if he stayed out of foul trouble. But Johns an athletic kid. Last year, in the minutes that he played, his production was really high. He gets a lot of things down out there on the court. The thing were trying to stress to him is defensive position, said Manning.UP NEXTWake Forest travels to Richmond on Saturday. Richmond loss to Maryland in overtime and is coming off a win against Boston College on Saturday.Northwestern faces DePaul on Saturday. The Wildcats defeated the Blue Demons on the road in overtime last season. ' ' '