Lines from Tuesday's game (subject to change)
Forwards
Ondrej Palat - Brayden Point - Steven Stamkos
Alex Killorn - Anthony Cirelli - Tyler Johnson
Barclay Goodrow - Yanni Gourde - Blake Coleman
Patrick Maroon - Mathieu Joseph - Alexander Volkov
Defensemen
Victor Hedman - Jan Rutta
Mikhail Sergachev - Erik Cernak
Andreas Borgman - Cal Foote
Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Curtis McElhinney
Thursday's Matchup
The Lightning and the Stars are playing their fifth of eight meetings this season and the fourth of four at American Airlines Center...The Bolts and Stars complete a two-game set in Dallas tonight...Tampa Bay is 4-0-0 against Dallas, including shutouts in the first two meetings Feb. 27 (5-0 at AMALIE Arena) and March 2 (2-0 at American Airlines Center), and has outscored the Stars a combined 12-4, all four Dallas goals coming with a man advantage (two power-play goals and two 6-on-5 goals)...The Lightning have won five straight against the Stars going back to its Cup-clinching Game 6 victory in the 2020 Stanley Cup Final...Tampa Bay is on a 12-game point streak versus Dallas (9-0-3) and has collected points in seven-straight trips to Dallas (5-0-2)...The Bolts are 10-1-3 in their last 14 games in Dallas.
Thursday's Storylines
Tampa Bay has won five games in a row for its third-longest win streak of the season and can match win streaks of six games from Jan. 30-Feb. 9 and Feb. 22-March 4 for the longest of the season with a victory tonight...The Lightning's five-game win streak is the longest active win streak in the NHL...The Bolts are the only NHL team this season with three win streaks of five or more games...The Lightning are the first NHL team this season to reach 50 points and have matched their franchise record for points through the first 32 games of a season, equaling their mark of 24-6-2 and 50 points from 2017-18...Only three defending champions in NHL history have needed fewer games to reach 50 points in the following season: 1929-30 Boston (25-4-0); 1976-77 Montreal (23-4-4) and 1944-45 Montreal (24-5-2)... Tampa Bay leads the NHL for wins (24), points (50), point percentage (.781), regulation wins (20, T-1st w/ EDM), ROW (23) and goals per game (3.63)...The Lightning have scored a power-play goal in five-straight contests (5 PPGs total) and 10 of their last 11 contests (13 PPGs total) and rank second in the NHL for power-play percentage (28.7%) behind only Carolina (30.6%).
Injuries
2020-21 Reg. Season Man Games Lost: 74
Nikita Kucherov (Hip surgery Dec. 29; Out) 32 Games
Ryan McDonagh (Lower-body injury March 21; Day-to-day) 1 Game
Mitchell Stephens (Lower-body injury Jan. 23; Out indefinitely) 28 Games
The Road Ahead
Saturday, March 27 at Carolina Hurricanes
Tuesday, March 30 vs. Columbus Blue Jackets
Thursday, April 1 vs. Columbus Blue Jackets
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