Lightning vs. Capitals: Projected lines, storylines, injuries

Tampa Bay jumped out to a 3-0 lead over Washington in Game 3 and never looked back, cutting their defcit in the series to 2-1 with a 4-2 victory.
They'll now try and draw even in the series when the face the Capitals in Game 4 on Thursday.

Lines from Tuesday's game. Subject to change.
Forwards
Ondrej Palat - Steven Stamkos - Nikita Kucherov
Tyler Johnson - Brayden Point - Yanni Gourde
Alex Killorn - Anthony Cirelli - J.T. Miller
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
Thursday's Matchup
The Lightning will look to level the best-of-seven Eastern Conference Final 2-2 when they take on Washington in Game 4 at Capital One Arena...Tampa Bay improved to 4-1 on the road this postseason after its Game 3 win and has won four in a row away from AMALIE Arena...The Lightning own the second-best road win percentage (.800) in the 2018 playoffs (first: WSH - .875)...Since the start of the 2015 playoffs, the Bolts are 17-9 on the road in the postseason...Tampa Bay is 4-4 all-time in playoff series when trailing 1-2 in the series after three games...The Lightning are 3-3-0 against Washington this season (reg. season and playoffs) and 2-1-0 in D.C... Nikita Kucherov extended his point streak vs. WSH to 10 games (7-6--13) following his goal and assist in Game 3...Brayden Point
has scored five goals in his last six games vs. WSH and has recorded 5-5--10 over his last seven games vs. the Caps...Victor Hedman has tallied an assist in four of his last five games vs. WSH and has recorded 1-4--5 in his last five games vs. the Caps...Steven Stamkos has scored a goal in three-consecutive games vs. WSH.
Thursday's Storylines
Tampa Bay is 12-10 all-time in Game 4s and 9-3 all-time in Game 4s on the road...The Lightning have won five-straight Game 4s and four-straight Game 4s on the road...The Bolts are 2-2 in Eastern Conference Final Game 4s...The Lightning are 6-4 in Game 4s under head coach Jon Cooper...The Bolts own an all-time playoff record of 71-58, including a 36-27 mark on the road...Tampa Bay is 34-26 in the postseason under Jon Cooper...The Lightning are 14-8 all-time in playoff series and 10-2 in playoff series when holding home ice advantage (the Bolts' last playoff loss when holding home-ice advantage was the 2015 Stanley Cup Final vs. Chicago)...The Lightning enter Game 4 with 1,390 games of postseason experience on the roster...Chris Kunitz has played in more playoff games (174) than any NHL player remaining in the 2018 playoffs and is looking for his third-straight Stanley Cup and fifth overall...Kunitz is the only current member of the Lightning to win a Stanley Cup...Kunitz ranks tied for 41st in the NHL all-time for playoff games...Tampa Bay ranks second in the NHL for most playoff games since the start of the 2015 postseason (56) behind only Pittsburgh (66)...The Lightning rank second in the NHL for most playoff wins (34) since the start of the 2015 postseason behind Pittsburgh (39)...The Bolts 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: 15
Current injuries
Adam Erne - Lower body (out indefinitely; injured March 26) - 19 games (13 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
Stammer Time
Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos scored a power-play goal and added a power-play assist in Game 3 at WSH for his secondconsecutive multi-point game, fourth multi-point game of these playoffs and 14th multi-point game of his playoff career...With his first period power-play goal, Stamkos tied Martin St. Louis for most playoff power-play goals in Lightning history.
With two power-play points in Game 3, Stamkos passed Martin St. Louis to become Tampa Bay's all-time playoff power-play scoring leader.
Stamkos has scored a power-play goal in all three games of the Conference Final and five of his six goals in these playoffs have come on the power play...Stamkos leads all NHL players in the 2018 playoffs for power-play goals (5) and power-play scoring (11 pts.)...With his two points in Game 3, Stamkos extended his playoff point streak to six games, setting a new career high...Stamkos has scored a goal in five of the last six games.
On Point
Lightning second year center Brayden Point scored a goal and added an assist in Game 3 at WSH for his second-consecutive multipoint game and fourth multi-point game of the playoffs...Point has scored a goal in two-consecutive games, four of his last five games and five of his last seven games...Since the start of the Second Round, Point ranks tied for first on the Lightning with Steven Stamkos for goals (5) and tied for first on the Bolts with Victor Hedman for scoring (11 pts.).
Hed of the Class
Bolts defenseman Victor Hedman scored a goal and added two assists in Game 3 at WSH to match his career for playoff scoring in a single game set previously in Game 3 of the 2016 Second Round at NYI (1-2--3)...Hedman is one of only two Lightning defenseman alltime to record three points in a playoff game (also: Eric Brewer in Game 2 of the 2011 ECQF at PIT, 1-2--3) and is the only one to do so multiple times...With his two power-play assists in Game 3, Hedman passed Dan Boyle to become the all-time Lightning leader for power-play assists among defensemen ...Hedman ranks tied for third all-time among all Lightning skaters for playoff power-play assists.
Hedman extended his franchise record assist streak and point streak to eight games (1-10--11) on Tuesday, tied for the longest point streak in the 2018 playoffs this season (also: PIT's Jake Guentzel, 9-8--17 in 8 games)...Hedman's run is just the 15th time in NHL history a defenseman has recorded a point streak of eight or more games in the postseason and first since PIT's Larry Murphy had a nine-game run in 1995 (2-13--15)...The record for longest point streak by a defenseman in the postseason belongs to CGY's Al MacInnis, who put together a 17-game stretch (7-19-26) in 1989...Hedman ranks tied for second among NHL blueliners this postseason for assists (10) and tied for fourth for scoring (11 pts.)...Hedman ranks tied for fifth among all League skaters for power-play assists (6) this postseason and tied for ninth overall for power-play scoring (0-6--6)...For the second-consecutive season, Hedman is a finalist for the Norris Trophy, joining LAK's Drew Doughty and NSH's P.K. Subban this year.