The Bolts Look to Strike Back on Star Wars Night

By Philip Wunderlich

The Bolts need to be on their A game as the Colorado Avalanche come to town. The Avs have one of the best lines in hockey with MacKinnon, Rantanen and Landeskog. Between them they have a shocking 124 points!

 

Tampa Bay Outlook

Again as mentioned the Bolts need to play hard and they dropped the ball…or shall we say the puck…last game when they played the Bruins. The Avs are a heck of a team and with that top line they are explosive. They don’t have much depth scoring though and their defense isn’t the greatest so the Bolts need to exploit this and use it to their advantage.

 

Tampa Bay Lines

Offense

Palat – Stamkos – Gourde

Johnson – Point – Kucherov

Killorn – Cirelli – Miller

Joseph – Paquette – Callahan

Defense

Hedman – Girardi

McDonagh – Cernak

Coburn – Sergachev

Goalie

Domingue

Pasquale

 

Colorado Outlook

In order for Colorado to come up on top they need to use that top line scoring to their advantage. They also have to get the line assignments to match in their favor if they want to be competitive. The Avs are coming off a win so they will likely use that momentum and come out trying to get an early lead.

 

Colorado Lines

Offense

Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen

Jost – Compher – Wilson

Nieto – Sodenberg – Calvert

Kamenev – Kerfoot – Andrighetto

Defense

Girard – Johnson

Cole – Barrie

Nemeth – Zadarov

Goalies

Varlamov

Grubauer