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Hit The Reset

Kevin Flannery

By: Victor Cabrera

Overview:

The Tampa Bay Lightning look to bounce back against the Columbus Blue Jackets after a 4-1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday. Tonight will be the third game of the season and a chance to get some momentum started. Let’s see how this game goes for the home side.

Tampa Bay Lightning Outlook

There’s a projected change in the forward lines tonight but soon that’ll be discussed. The Lightning have struggled offensively just three goals in their first two games combined. It’s difficult to get wins with low scoring. The team is a solid group of players both on offense and defense. The line up is a great mix of veteran and young players such as Adam Erne and Mathieu Joseph.

The projected lines for today come with a change as Stamkos and Kucherov are on different lines.

Offense

Gourde-Stamkos-Point

Palat-Johnson-Kucherov

Killorn-Cirelli-Joseph

Erne-Paquette-Miller

Defense

Hedman-Girardi

McDonagh-Stralman

Coburn-Sergachev

Goalies

Vasilevskiy

Domingue

Let’s see how the offense changes with Kucherov and Stamkos on separate lines.

 

Columbus Blue Jackets Outlook

The Blue Jackets are being lead by Artemi Panarin who has 7 points so far who is on the last year of his contract. Bobrovsky is another key player in their scheme who is also on his last year of his deal. An important defensemen is absent in the line up that being Seth Jones.Columbus is a great opponent for the Lightning as they are both potentially playoff teams. Can the Lightning defense shut down a hot Columbus offense?

Offense

Panarin-Dubois-Atkinson

Foligno-Wennberg-Duclair

Jenner-Nash-Bjorkstrand

Milano-Sedlak-Anderson

Defense

Werenski-Savard

Murray-Nutivaara

Harrington-Clendening

Goalies

Bobrovsky

Korpisalo

 

Let’s see how the offense is tonight for Tampa and how well the defense does against Columbus.

Hope everyone enjoys the game, and for those that go to Amalie Arena tonight have fun and be safe. For game updates and other news follow us on Twitter @bay_bolts

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