NHL Tuesday: Blackhawks, Sharks take center stage

Get caught up on last night’s NHL scores with recaps from our network of SB Nation team blogs. Here’s a quick glance at the full night of action:

Prior to yesterday’s games, we presented five burning questions regarding the night’s action. Here are your cool, soothing answers.

You can see the fight below, with the hit shown at the 1:00 mark.

Richards was hit with 19 minutes in penalties, including an instigating penalty and a major for instigating while wearing a face shield.

Keith received five minutes for fighting, two minutes for instigating, two minutes for his visor, and a misconduct.

Desjardins received five minutes for fighting and a 10-minute misconduct for hitting Mayers in the head. As you can clearly see in the video above, that was a totally ridiculous call. Desjardins hit Mayers square in the shoulder. His hit could be used as an example by the league of the type of clean, hard hit that is perfectly in keeping with the rules. Mayers wasn’t hurt on the play, and didn’t undergo any of the observation that normally accompanies a hit to the head -- which all makes perfect sense, because he wasn’t hit in the head. At all. Not even a little bit.

The point is you can’t stop him, so don’t even try. Just get out of the way, and go tell the police that someone is wandering around town stealing brakes from vehicles.

Tom Sestito has been in the NHL since 2007, and has played 28 games. He spent most of his career being not quite good enough to earn a permanent spot on the Columbus Blue Jackets. On Tuesday night he single-handedly outscored the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Hockey’s great, isn’t it? Frozen rubber pucks routinely travel near 100 miles an hour, and players are expected to stand right in front of them all game long - and if you wear a visor, people think you’re weak.

At least he could feel better knowing he had an entire arena full of fans wishing him well.

It is the second of three meetings between the two teams this season and the second time they have met over the course of the last nine days.

In their first meeting, Tampa Bay managed to overcome an early Philadelphia lead to register five unanswered goals on the way to a 5-1 victory. The Flyers specialty team struggles were amplified in the contest as the club failed to capitalize on six power play opportunities and allowed the Lightning to convert on two of five man advantages.