PROJECTED LINES
Lines are from Friday's game against Montreal, and subject to change.
Forwards
Ondrej Palat -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov
Adam Erne -- Vladislav Namestnikov -- Jonathan Drouin
Alex Killorn -- Yanni Gourde -- Cory Conacher
Greg McKegg -- Gabriel Dumont -- Michael Bournival
Defensemen
Victor Hedman -- Jake Dotchin
Luke Witkowski -- Anton Stralman
Braydon Coburn -- Andrej Sustr
Goaltender
Andrei Vasilevskiy or Peter Budaj
SUNDAY'S MATCHUP
The Lightning and the Sabres are playing the final game of their four-game regular season series...The Bolts have won all three previous matchups this season and have a chance to sweep the regular season series against the Sabres for the first time in franchise history...Tampa Bay earned a 2-1 shootout win over Buffalo in the teams' last meeting (March 4), Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov converting in the shootout and Andrei Vasilevskiy making two shootout stops to pace the Bolts...The Lightning won 4-2 in their last matchup at AMALIE Arena against Buffalo (Jan. 12), Ondrej Palat netting a pair of goals to pace the Bolts...The Lightning were also 4- 1 winners at Buffalo (Nov. 17) behind power-play goals from Alex Killorn and Brayden Point...Tampa Bay has won 10 of its last 11 meetings with Buffalo and is 13-2-1 against the Sabres since the start of the 2013-14 season...The Lightning are 36-45-7 with five ties all-time overall against Buffalo...The Bolts are on a seven-game home point streak versus Buffalo (6-0-1) and are 19-21-3 with two ties all-time at home against the Sabres.
LIGHTNING-SABRES STORYLINES
Toronto's 5-3 victory over Pittsburgh on Saturday secured the final wild card in the Eastern Conference for the Maple Leafs and eliminated the Lightning from playoff contention...The Bolts will miss the postseason for the first time since the 2012-13 season, ending a stretch of three-straight seasons making the playoffs...Since Feb. 4, the Lightning are 19-6-4 and are tied with Chicago for the second-best point percentage in the NHL (.724) behind only Washington (.733).
INJURIES
2016-17 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 268
JT Brown - Lower-body injury (DAY-TO-DAY; INJURED APRIL 2) 2 Games
Ryan Callahan - Follow up surgical procedure on right hip (OUT INDEFINITELY; INJURED JAN. 7) 40 Games
Jason Garrison - Lower-body injury (DAY-TO-DAY; INJURED APRIL 2) 3 Games
Tyler Johnson - Lower-body injury (DAY-TO-DAY; INJURED APRIL 4) 2 Games
Cedric Paquette - Lower-body injury (DAY-TO-DAY; INJURED MARCH 9) 15 Games
Steven Stamkos - Lateral meniscus tear in right knee (OUT APPROXIMATELY 4 MONTHS; INJURED NOV. 15) 64 Games
TRANSACTIONS
April 5 - Recalled F Michael Bournival from AHL Syracuse
April 5 - Recalled F Cory Conacher from AHL Syracuse
April 3 - Recalled F Joel Vermin from AHL Syracuse
April 3 - Re-assigned F Joel Vermin to AHL Syracuse
IN THE NIK OF TIME
Tampa Bay forward Nikita Kucherov netted his 40th goal of the season April 7 at MTL and added an assist for his 23rd multi-point game of the season...Kucherov became just the sixth Russian player all-time in NHL history 23 years old or younger to reach the 40- goal milestone in a single season, joining Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Bure and Alexander Mogilny ...With his goal on Friday, Kucherov moved into second place in the NHL for goals.
MILESTONES
POWER UP
The Lightning lead the NHL for power-play goals (62) and have tallied the eighth-most power-play goals in a single season in franchise history and the most since netting 69 in 2010-11.
