The Tampa Bay Lightning are looking to build off of their dominant victory against the Montreal Canadiens, as they head to the third stop of their four game road trip.
Tonight, the Lightning will visit the Prudential Center to face off against the New Jersey Devils. The Lightning enter the night with a 17-11-2 record, sitting second in the Atlantic Division behind only the Detroit Red Wings. Meanwhile, the Devils are sitting outside of a playoff spot with a 17-12-1 record.
Injuries will be a major factor in tonight’s game, as the Lightning are without star defenseman Victor Hedman who left Tuesday night’s game with an injury before subsequently being placed on the injured reserve this morning, joining Ryan McDonagh and Andrei Vasilevskiy.
As for the Devils, they currently have five players on the injured reserve, including Jack Hughes, Brett Pesce, and Evgenii Dadonov. Forward Timo Meier also took a leave of absence from the team for personal reasons this morning, so the Devils will be significantly shorthanded heading into tonight’s affair.
Lightning Projected Lines (based on Tuesday’s lines)
Hagel - Cirelli - Kucherov
Guentzel - Point - Bjorkstrand
Girgensons - Gourde - Holmberg
Douglas - Paul - Sabourin
Moser - Raddysh
D’Astous - Lilleberg
Carlile - Crozier
Johansson
Halverson
Devils Projected Lines (per Mike Morreale)
Noesen - Hischier - Bratt
Palat - Mercer - Cotter
Gritsyuk - Glass - Brown
Parent - Glendening - Crookshank
Siegenthaler - Hamilton
Dillon - Hughes
White - Nemec
Markstrom
Allen