Victor Hedman speaks with reporters postgame The Tampa Bay Lightning will play the Chicago Blackhawks twice in the next five days, starting on Friday night in Chicago. The Lightning are 0-2 so far on their road-trip and would love nothing more than to grab two points. Jon Cooper shuffled up the lines for Thursday's practice, moving Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel to the top line with Nikita Kucherov. Mikey Eyssimont was moved to the second line with Jake Guentzel and Brayden Point. With games happening almost every other night this month, the Lightning had two consecutive days off this week. The month of January is coming to a close but before it ends, they have one more set of back-to-back games this weekend in Chicago and divisional matchup in Detroit. The Blackhawks are coming off 4-3 loss in overtime against the Carolina Hurricanes Monday night. Here’s a look at the practice lines from Thursday: Forwards Brandon Hagel - Anthony Cirelli - Nikita Kucherov Jake Guentzel - Brayden Point - Mikey Eyssimont Zemgus Girgensons - Nick Paul - Conor Geekie Mitchell Chaffee - Luke Glendening - Cam Atkinson Defensemen Victor Hedman - Darren Raddysh Ryan McDonagh - Max Crozier Emil Lilleberg - Nick Perbix Goaltenders Andrei Vasilevskiy Jonas Johansson The Lightning finished the 2023-24 season with a 1-1-0 record against Chicago. Puck drop is at 8pm EST.
