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The Bolts are a win away from heading to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Tampa Bay currently holds a 3-1 lead in their series vs. the Bruins. Dan Girardi scored the game-winning goal for the Bolts less than four minutes into overtime to lift the Lightning to a 4-3 win.

Lines from Friday's game. Subject to change.
Forwards
J.T. Miller - Steven Stamkos - Nikita Kucherov
Ondrej Palat - Brayden Point - Tyler Johnson
Alex Killorn - Anthony Cirelli - Yanni Gourde
Chris Kunitz - Cedric Paquette - Ryan Callahan
Defensemen
Victor Hedman - Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh - Anton Stralman
Braydon Coburn - Mikhail Sergachev
Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy, Louis Domingue or Peter Budaj
Sunday's Matchup
The Lightning can close out their Second Round series against Boston and advance to the Eastern Conference Finals with a victory inG a me 5 over the Bruins...Tampa Bay is aiming to reach the Eastern Conference Finals for the third time in the last four seasons...The Lightning have never lost a best-of-seven playoff series when leading three-games-to-one... The Bolts are 4-1 in Game 5s when holdinga 3-1 lead in the series, the only loss coming in the 2015 ECSF at Montreal (the Bolts closed out the series in Game 6)...VictorHedman has points in five-consecutive games vs. BOS (2-7--9)...Yanni Gourde is on a four-game point streak vs. BOS (1-3--4) and has points in five of his last six games against the Bruins (1-4--5)...Dan Girardi has recorded points in five of his last six games vs. BOS (2-3--5)... Brayden Point has tallied at least one point in four of his last five games vs. BOS (3-4--7).
Sunday's Storylines
The Lightning are 9-9 all-time in Game 5s and have won their last four-consecutive Game 5s...The Bolts are 6-3 all-time in Game 5s at home...Tampa Bay is 5-3 in Game 5s under head coach Jon Cooper...The Lightning own an all-time playoff record of 69-56, including a 34-29 record at home and a 33-27 record at AMALIE Arena...The Bolts are 32-24 in the postseason under Jon Cooper...Tampa Bay is 13-8 all-time in playoff series and 9-2 in playoff series when holding home-ice advantage (the Lightning's last playoff series loss when holding home-ice advantage was the 2015 Stanley Cup Final vs. Chicago)...The Bolts enter Game 5 with 1,313 games of postseason experience on the roster... Chris Kunitz has played in more playoff games (170) than any NHL player remaining in the 2018 playoffs and is looking for his third-straight Stanley Cup and fifth overall...Kunitz ranks tied for 48th in the NHL all-time for playoff games played... Victor Hedman has played in the most playoff games while with the Bolts (74) and ranks first all-time in franchise history for playoff games... Tampa Bay ranks tied for second with Nashville in the NHL for most playoff games (52) since the start of the 2015 postseason behind only Pittsburgh (64)...The Lightning rank second in the NHL for most playoff wins (32) since the start of the 2015 postseason behind only Pittsburgh (39)...The Lightning set franchise records for wins (54), road wins (25), points (113), road points (53), goals (290), home goals (145) and road goals (145) during the 2017-18 regular season...The Lightning won their third division title in 2017-18 (also: Southeast Division titles in 2002-03 & 2003-04) and finished as the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference for the second time in franchise history (also: 2003-04).
Injuries
2017-18 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 132
2018 Playoff Man Games Lost: 11
Current injuries
Adam Erne - Lower body (out indefinitely; injured March 26) - 15 games (9 playoff games)
Transactions
April 19 - Signed F Michael Bournival to a 1-year, 2-way contract
April 19 - Signed F Otto Somppi to a 3-year, entry-level contract
April 19 - Re-assigned F Matthew Peca to AHL Syracuse
Putting it in Overdrive
The Lightning played an overtime contest in Game 4 at BOS for the first time since Game 5 of the 2016 ECF at Pittsburgh ...Tampa Bay is 7-1 in its last eight playoff overtime games...The Bolts improved to 15-8 in 23 all-time playoff overtime contests, including a 12-4 record on the road...Tampa Bay's .750 win percentage in playoff overtime road games is the best all-time in the NHL (min. 5 games)...The Lightning's .652 win percentage in all playoff overtime contests ranks second in NHL history behind the New York Islanders (.673, 22-16).
In the Nik of Time
Tampa Bay right winger Nikita Kucherov scored a power-play goal in Game 4 at BOS for his team-leading sixth goal of the 2018 Playoffs and first point of the Second Round series vs. BOS...Kucherov ranks tied for fifth in the NHL for goals this postseason...Kucherov leads the Bolts and ranks 12th in the League for scoring this postseason...With his goal Friday, Kucherov passed Vincent Lecavalier and moved into sole possession of second place among the Lightning's all-time playoff scoring leaders.
Kucherov ranks second all-time amoong Tampa Bay's all-time playoff goal leaders.
Kucherov leads the NHL for game-winning goals (3) this postseason...Since the 2015 playoffs, Kucherov (52 pts.) ranks tied for third in the NHL for scoring...Since the 2015 playoffs, Kucherov leads the NHL for goals.
The Big Cat
Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 29-of-32 shots in Game 4 at BOS to improve to 7-2 in these playoffs and 11-7 for his postseason career...Vasilevskiy won his third-consecutive playoff start for the first time in his career... Vasilevskiy won for the second-straight start in Boston after going 0-3 in the city prior to Game 3...Vasilevskiy is tied for the NHL lead for wins (7) in these playoffs and ranks eighth in the League for goals-against average (2.33) and save percentage (.923)...Vasilevskiy passed Dwayne Roloson and moved into sole possession of third place among the Lightning's all-time playoff goalie wins leaders.
Bolts defenseman Victor Hedman tallied an assist in Game 4 at BOS and has picked up at least one assist in all four games of the Second Round series...Hedman leads the Lightning for assists (5) and ranks second for scoring (5 pts.) in the Second Round...With his assist on Nikita Kucherov's power-play goal Friday, Hedman passed Martin St. Louis and became Tampa Bay's all-time playoff assist leader.