Lightning at Oilers: Projected lines injuries; storylines

The Lightning close out their eight-game road trip with the first matchup of the season against the Oilers.
Tampa Bay has wins in back-to-back games against Calgary and Vancouver, while the Oilers come in after an overtime loss to the Avalanche on Thursday.

Lines from Sunday's practice. Subject to change.
Forwards
Chris Kunitz - Steven Stamkos - Nikita Kucherov
Vladislav Namestnikov - Brayden Point - Tyler Johnson
Alex Killorn - Matthew Peca - Yanni Gourde
Cory Conacher - Cedric Paquette/Michael Bournival - Ryan Callahan
Defensemen
Victor Hedman - Jake Dotchin
Slater Koekkoek/Mikhail Sergachev - Anton Stralman
Braydon Coburn - Andrej Sustr
Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy or Louis Domingue
Monday's Matchup
The Lightning and the Oilers are playing their first of two meetings this season and the only one at Rogers Place...Edmonton is the only NHL team the Bolts have yet to face this season...Tampa Bay and Edmonton split the season series last year, the Oilers winning 3-2 in overtime Dec. 17, 2016 in Edmonton, Victor Hedman becoming the Lightning's all-time leading scorer for a defenseman, passing Dan Boyle, with his assist on Jonathan Drouin's second period goal in the loss..Tampa Bay prevailed 4-1 at AMALIE Arena in the series finale Feb. 21, 2017, Ondrej Palat scoring a pair of goals and Nikita Kucherov matching a career high for points in a game, recording 1-3--4...The Lightning are on a five-game point streak against Edmonton, going 4-0-1 over their last five meetings...The Bolts, however, have won just once in their last six trips to Edmonton, compiling a 1-3-2 record dating back to the 2008-09 season...Tampa Bay is 5-10- 2 all-time in Edmonton... Tyler Johnson has recorded a point in every game of his career vs. EDM, putting up 2-8--10 in eight all-time games... Nikita Kucherov has a goal in three-straight games and is on a four-game point streak (3-5--8) vs. EDM... Vladislav Namestnikov has points (2-2--4) in three of his last four games vs. EDM... Steven Stamkos is on a three-game point streak vs. EDM, notching 2-2--4 (DNP vs. EDM last year due to injury).
Monday's Storylines
Tampa Bay leads the NHL for road wins (19), road points (40) and road points percentage (.690)...The Lightning are playing their final game of a stretch of eight-straight games away from AMALIE Arena, the longest such stretch in the NHL this season, and are 5-2-0 on that away stretch with five wins in their last six...The Bolts are playing the third game in a stretch of five-straight contests against Pacific Division opponents...The Lightning continue to pace the NHL for wins (36), points (75), points percentage (.721), ROW (34), goals (185), goal differential (+53) and goals per game (3.56)...The Bolts are off to their best start in frachise history with 75 points through 52 games, six points better than the 69 points put up by the 2010-11 team (32-15-5) and the 2014-15 team (32-15-5) through 52 games.
Injuries
2017-18 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 75
Current injuries
Peter Budaj - Lower body (out indefinitely; injured Dec. 29) 15 Games
Dan Girardi - Lower body (day-to-day; injured Jan. 30) 2 Games
Ondrej Palat - Lower body (out 6 to 8 weeks; injured Jan. 20) 6 Games
Transactions
Jan. 31 - Acquired G Edward Pasquale from Edmonton in exchange for future considerations
Jan. 29 - Recalled G Louis Domingue from AHL Syracuse
Jan. 27 - Re-assigned G Louis Domingue to AHL Syracuse
Jan. 21 - Recalled F Michael Bournival from AHL Syracuse
Jan. 21 - Recalled F Matthew Peca from AHL Syracuse
In the Nik of time
Tampa Bay forward Nikita Kucherov tallied two assists Feb. 3 at VAN for his 22nd multi-point game of the season and 78th of his career...Kucherov continues to lead the NHL for scoring.
With his second assist in Vancouver, Kucherov recorded his 300th career NHL point in just his 337th game in the league...Also, with his second assist, Kucherov tied Brian Bradley (300 points in 328 games) for seventh place on Tampa Bay's all-time scoring list...Kucherov has gone 10-straight games without a goal, his longest goal drought since going 13-consecutive games without a goal Jan. 2-Feb. 3, 2015 but remains tied for third among the NHL's goal leaders.
Andrei the Giant
Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 31-of-33 shots Feb. 3 at VAN for his fourth-consecutive victory, Vasilevskiy giving up two or less goals in three of those four victories...Vasilevskiy's 31 wins are the fourth most in a single season in Lightning history, joining Ben Bishop (40 in 2014-15; 37 in 2013-14; 35 in 2015-16) as the only Bolts goalies to record 31 or more wins...Vasilevskiy continues to pace the NHL for wins.
Vasilevskiy leads the NHL for shutouts with 7 (no other goalie has mroe than 5) and tied the Tampa Bay franchise record for most shutouts in a season set previously by Nikolai Khabibulin in 2001-02...Six of Vasilevskiy's seven shutouts have come on the road, a Bolts franchise record for most road shutouts in a season...Since the 1989-90 season, Vasilevskiy is one of just seven NHL goaltenders to record six road shutouts in a seasons.