The other schedule change announced by the NHL on Friday has the game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Hurricanes, originally scheduled for Saturday, rescheduled to a date to be announced.
"We found out last night," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said Friday. "Like I said, we had contingency plans for all of this. It doesn't really matter who you're playing. It's just what night you're playing them."
The Blackhawks and Hurricanes will play at PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday (7 p.m. ET; NHLN, FS-CR, NBCSCH, NHL.TV).
"Had we known that was the schedule we might have done something a little different," Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "But honestly, we're just preparing for tonight and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow."
The Lightning were scheduled to play at the Dallas Stars on Saturday, but that game, and their game at Dallas on Feb. 18, were postponed because of the severe winter weather in Texas.
"I think we've become used to the schedule changing and becoming adaptable to that," Lightning forward Barclay Goodrow said. "Every team is going through it, so it's kind of the way this year is going to go. We know it's probably going to change again one more or two more or three more times. We'll be ready to play whenever the games are scheduled and go from there."
Tampa Bay has not played since a 6-4 loss to the Florida Panthers on Monday.
Saturday is the first of four games in six days scheduled between the Lightning and Hurricanes. They will play at Carolina on Monday and at Tampa Bay on Wednesday and Thursday.
"It's a playoff series type season, that's the way it is," Goodrow said. "We'll be pretty familiar with each other in a week."
NHL.com independent correspondents Kurt Dusterberg and Corey Long contributed to this report
