Nuts & Bolts: Road trip heads north to Vancouver

Everything you need to know ahead of Tampa Bay's matchup against the Canucks on Wednesday.
When:Wednesday, January 18 - 10 p.m. ET
Where:Rogers Arena - Vancouver, BC
TV coverage: Bally Sports Sun (check local listings)
Radio coverage:
102.5 MHz-FM
,
Lightning Radio 24/7
Where to stream it:
BallySports.com

Projected Lineup (subject to change)
Forwards
Brandon Hagel - Brayden Point - Nikita Kucherov
Anthony Cirelli - Steven Stamkos - Alex Killorn
Ross Colton - Nick Paul - Pat Maroon
Vladislav Namestnikov - Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - Corey Perry
Defensemen
Victor Hedman - Zach Bogosian
Haydn Fleury - Mikhail Sergachev
Ian Cole - Erik Cernak
Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Brian Elliott
Wednesday's Matchup
The Lightning and the Canucks are playing the second of two matchups this season and the only meeting at Rogers Arena…The Bolts skated to a ninth-straight victory at AMALIE Arena with a 5-4 win vs. VAN Jan. 12 in the first contest between the two teams this season…VAN opened the scoring 4:14 into the contest with a rebound goal from Connor Garland…Tampa Bay responded with 5:23 remaining in the opening frame when Ross Colton won a puck battle and sent a pass to the point for Mikhail Sergachevbefore he fired a wrist shot towards the stick of Corey Perry, who redirected the puck past Collin Delia for his sixth goal of the season…Alex Killorn gave the Bolts a 2-1 lead at the 2:30 mark of the second period when he jumped on a rebound in front and fired a wrist shot into the top right corner for his 13th goal of the season with Nick Perbix and Brandon Hagel collecting the helpers…Former Lightning forward J.T. Miller tied the game with a power-play goal at the 5:44 mark of the middle frame…Tampa Bay regained the lead with Nikita Kucherov banging home a rebound in front off assists from Steven Stamkos and Brayden Point with 4:16 remaining in the second period…Hagel scored his 15th goal of the season at the 19:29 mark of the second when Killorn fought off two VAN defenders and sent a backhand pass into the slot where Hagel beat Delia to make it a 4-2 game…The Bolts earned a 5-on-3 power play early in the third period and Stamkos ripped his patented one-timer from the left circle past Delia for his 499th career goal with Point and Kucherov collecting the helpers with 14:30 remaining in regulation…VAN scored the last two goals of the contest with Quinn Hughes scoring at the 14:40 mark and Elias Pettersson netting the final goal of the contest with 2:08 remaining…Andrei Vasilevskiy got the start in goal and made 36 saves on 40 shots against, including a game-saving stop with one second remaining in regulation…Tampa Bay has won five straight games vs. VAN and are 7-3-0 in the last 10 matchups…The Lightning are also 7-3-0 in their last 10 games at VAN…Stamkos has points in five of his seven career games at VAN (6-3-9)…Stamkos has scored a goal in four of his last five games vs. VAN (4-3-7)…Kucherov has recorded a multi-point game in seven of his last 10 games vs. VAN (5-9-14), including three of his last four contests at VAN (2-4-6)…Point has nine points over his last six games vs. VAN (3-6-9)…Hedman has points in four straight games at VAN (3-2-5) and seven of the last nine meetings overall (4-5-9)…Vasilevskiy has won seven of his last eight starts vs. VAN, including wins in five straight…In five career starts at VAN, Vasilevskiy is 4-1-0 with a .935 save percentage and 1.98 goals against average…Tampa Bay is 18-17-3 with two ties all-time vs. VAN, including a road record of 7-9-1 with two ties…Stamkos (13-11-24) holds the Lightning franchise records for career goals and points vs. VAN.
Wednesday's Storylines
Tampa Bay is playing the third game of a season-long, five-game road trip tonight…The Bolts will play eight of their 13 games in January on the road…The Lightning are 6-2-0 against Pacific Division opponents and 13-4-0 against the Western Conference this season…Tampa Bay is 11-9-0 on the road this season…The Bolts enter tonight's contest riding a four-game winning streak, one win shy of tying their season-long, five-game winning streak set Dec. 8-17…The Lightning are playing the first game of a back-to-back set and will face the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place Thursday night…Tampa Bay is 5-2-0 in the first game of back-to-back sets this season.
Injuries
2022-23 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 88
Current Injuries:
Nick Perbix (Upper-body injury; Day-to-day) 1 Game
Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game
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The Road Ahead
Thursday, January 19 at Edmonton Oilers
Saturday, January 21 at Calgary Flames
Tuesday, January 24 vs. Minnesota Wild