Author: Mike Brehm, USA TODAY

The Lightning, swept by the Blue Jackets in last season’s NHL playoffs, oust them this time after a Brayden Point OT goal in Game 5.

Washington QB Alex Smith, who suffered a compound fracture in his right leg in 2018, has been activated from the physically unable to perform list.

Andrei Svechnikov left after getting tangled up with Zdeno Chara. Bruins’ Jack Edwards tweets Hurricanes forward “bit off more than he could chew.”

Pittsburgh Penguins say nine players had contact with an “individual who had contact with a person that has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.”

The NHL is hoping the precautions it is taking at training camp and at hub cities in Toronto and Edmonton will allow it to award the Stanley Cup.

Monday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted about Bubba Wallace and NASCAR; in the afternoon, he addressed the Washington NFL team and Indians.

Former NHL player Georges Laraque, hospitalized with COVID-19 last week, says quarantining players for two to three months would be “unfair.”

Georges Laraque, who had been training for a marathon before contracting COVID-19, says, “I can’t even get up without losing my breath.”