Watch: Lightning, Red Wings combine for six goals in wild first period

After the goal, Detroit pulled goalie Alex Lyon for Cam Talbot.

Red Wings forward Vladimir Tarasenko cut the lead in half when he got the puck past Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy midway through the period, but the Lightning were back up by two goals two minutes later thanks to forward Brayden Point's 30th goal of the season.

Lightning forward Nick Paul scored on a breakaway with less than five minutes remaining in the first period, followed less than two minutes later by forward Patrick Kane's power-play goal for the Red Wings. 

Per the ESPN broadcast, the four first-period goals allowed were Detroit's most this season.

According to Stathead, it's the fifth game this season featuring six first-period goals and the first since Dec. 27 when the Blues outscored the Predators, 4-2, in an eventual 7-4 win.

Saturday's high-scoring Lightning-Red Wings game could significantly impact the compact Eastern Conference playoff standings.

The Lighting (29-20-4) are third in the Atlantic with 62 points, one more than the Red Wings (28-21-5), who hold the conference's final wild-card spot and are only a point ahead of the Blue Jackets (26-21-8) and Bruins (27-23-6).

Tampa Bay has made the playoffs for seven years in a row, the longest streak in franchise history.

Detroit has missed the postseason in eight consecutive years after making the Stanley Cup Playoffs each season from 1990-91 through 2015-16.