ABOUT THE LIGHTNING:
• Tampa Bay has won six of its past seven games and leads the NHL with 114 points, 19 more than second-place Calgary ... The team's 55 wins and 114 points already are franchise records with 10 games to play ... The Bolts have scored 277 goals, the most in the League, and have given up just 189 ... Tampa Bay ranks first in the NHL in power-play success at 28.5 percent and penalty-kill success at 85.6 percent ... Nikita Kucherov, who leads the NHL with 117 points (35 goals, 82 assists), will enter the game with a four-game point streak. So will three of his teammates: Brayden Point, Tyler Johnson and Victor Hedman ... Point leads the Lightning with 38 goals. Kucherov and Steven Stamkos are tied for second with 35 ... Ryan McDonagh leads the NHL in plus/minus at +36 ... Andrei Vasilevskiy ranks second in the NHL in goals-against average (2.28) among goalies who have started at least 40 games. He's also tied for second with six shutouts.
'YOTES QUOTES:
• "Obviously they're having a hell of a year. What can you say? They're breaking records and they're just getting ready for the playoffs ... Whether it's Tampa or whoever, we have to have the same philosophy. We've got to stay focused and play aggressive. You can't back off on this team." -- Rick Tocchet
• "We have to limit turnovers because they feed off transition and turnovers. So, for us, playing in their end and behind their net is going to be huge. And I think their big threat is their power play so the more we can stay out of the box and be smart with our sticks is going to help. Our PK is good, but if we give this team too many chances it's going to be tough." -- Brad Richardson
• "It's a lot fun playing against some of those guys they have over there. They have a couple of the best players in the world. So you just try to rise to the occasion, and it's a lot of fun trying to shut them down and hopefully get some offense going, too." -- Michael Grabner