Nuts & Bolts: Lightning look for second-straight win in the bubble

Up next for the Bolts is a date with the Bruins on Wednesday in the second game of the Round Robin.

The pair of Atlantic Division rivals completed their regular season series in 2019-20 with the Lightning winning three of the four matchups between them.

Lines from Tuesday's practice. Subject to change.

Forwards
Ondrej Palat - Brayden Point - Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn - Anthony Cirelli - Tyler Johnson
Barclay Goodrow - Yanni Gourde - Blake Coleman
Patrick Maroon - Mitchell Stephens - Cedric Paquette
Carter Verhaeghe - Alexander Volkov - Mathieu Joseph

Defensemen
Victor Hedman - Jan Rutta
Ryan McDonagh - Erik Cernak
Mikhail Sergachev - Kevin Shattenkirk
Braydon Coburn - Zach Bogosian
Luke Schenn

Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Curtis McElhinney

Wednesday's Matchup
The Lightning and the Bruins are meeting for the fifth time in 2019-20...Tampa Bay finished the regular season 3-1-0 against the Bruins, winning both games in Boston and splitting a pair of matchups at AMALIE Arena...The Lightning won 4-3 in a shootout in the first meeting Oct. 17 at TD Garden, Brayden Point, Mathieu Joseph and Kevin Shattenkirk all registering goals and Steven Stamkos netting the game-deciding goal in the shootout...Tampa Bay won 3-2 in the first meeting at AMALIE Arena Dec. 12, Steven Stamkos scoring a power-play and even-strength goal and Brayden Point adding a power-play goal...The Bolts downed the Bruins 5-3 in their last meeting of the regular season March 7 at BOS, Anthony Cirelli and Mikhail Sergachev each tallying shorthanded goals while Cedric Paquette, Alex Killorn (PP) and Nikita Kucherov also found the back of the net...Boston earned its lone win in the season series in a 2-1 victory March 3 at AMALIE Arena, Mitchell Stephens scoring the lone goal for Tampa Bay...Brayden Point led the Lightning for scoring against Boston during the regular season (2-2--4 pts.) and was tied with Steven Stamkos for most goals against the Bruins (2 goals apiece)...Steven Stamkos had a game-winning goal (Dec. 12) and a game-deciding goal (Oct. 17) this season against Boston...Andrei Vasilevskiy started all four games this season versus Boston, going 3-1-0 with a .928 save percentage and 2.46 goals-against average.

Wednesday's Storylines
The Lightning and the Bruins are meeting in the postseason for the first time since Game 5 of a 2018 Eastern Conference Semifinal series, a 3-1 win for the Bolts at AMALIE Arena that gave them a four-games-to-one win in the series...Tampa Bay's last win of the 2019-20 regular season came in a 5-3 victory March 7 at Boston...That game saw the two teams combine for 94 penalty minutes, a season high for the Lightning and second-highest total of the season for Boston (highest: 104 combined PIM Oct. 29 vs. SJS)...The Lightning's 48 penalty minutes March 7 at BOS were a season high for 2019-20 and their most since registering 68 penalty minutes April 16, 2018 in Game 3 of an Eastern Conference Quarterfinal matchup at NJD (2-5 L)...Tampa Bay went without a power play in Monday's 3-2 shootout win over Washington and hasn't had a power play in two of its last three playoff games (also: Game 3 of 2019 ECQF at CBJ, a 3-1 loss)...Tampa Bay is 7-5 all-time against Boston in the postseason.

Injuries
2019-20 Regular Season Total Man Games Lost: 104

The Road Ahead
Saturday, August 8 vs. Philadelphia Flyers (Time TBD | Network TBD)

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