The Tampa Bay Lightning got back in the win column on Thursday night, defeating the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 in a shootout at AMALIE Arena to earn a season series split with their Western Conference opponent. Jake Guentzel scored the lone goal in the three-round shootout.

The Anaheim Ducks and Tampa Bay Lightning faced off for the second time in two weeks last night when they battled for 65 minutes plus a shootout at Amalie Arena in Tampa.

It took everything they had to pull out two points, winning 4-3 as Andrei Vasilevskiy (34 saves) stopped all three Ducks shots in the shootout and Jake Guentzel scored what wound up being the winning goal in the first round.

Robby Fabbri, Troy Terry and Leo Carlsson score for the Ducks, who fall to 1-3-1 on their six-game trip when Guentzel scores the only goal for either team in the shootout to hand them a 4-3 defeat.

WILLIAM LIANG | AP ] The Lightning’s top five goal-scorers — Brayden Point (23), Jake Guentzel ... during the first period of Sunday's game in Anaheim. The Ducks won 4-1.

Although the Ducks beat the Lightning by three goals on Jan. 5, they have, more recently, been battered on their season-long road trip. The Ducks sandwiched the only win on a journey that began with two lopsided losses between a pair of shutouts by their opponents.

The Tampa Bay Lightning will kick off their two-game homestand with a cross-conference matchup against the Anaheim Ducks tonight at 7 p.m. The Bolts (23-16-3) are coming off a disheartening 6-2 loss to a key division rival in the Boston Bruins.

The Tampa Bay Lightning return to Florida having received a little bit of everything on their three-game road trip, but now the attention turns to settling a score with a Western Conference club.

Victor Hedman set a Lightning franchise mark for assists with his 600th as the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 in a shootout. Troy Terry got the Ducks on the board with a first-period goal.

Their 6-2 dismantling of the Anaheim Ducks was the kind of start they had to have and put forth a solid starting point to a streak ... 167 assists), Brayden Schenn adding a pair of assists and ...

Update: Brayden Point will not play tonight due to missing ... lineup on Thursday when they are back home to host the Anaheim Ducks.