Lightning at Bruins: Projected lines, storylines, injuries

The Bolts travel to Boston for Games 3 and 4 beginning on Wednesday night.
Tampa Bay evened the series at 1-1 wiht a 4-2 win over the Bruins on Monday. Yanni Gourde, Tyler Johnson, Ondrej Palat and Brayden Point all scored for the Bolts, while Andrei Vasilevskiy made 18 saves in the victory.

Lines from Wednesday's morning skate. Subject to change.
Forwards
J.T. Miller - Steven Stamkos - Nikita Kucherov
Ondrej Palat - Brayden Point - Tyler Johnson
Alex Killorn - Anthony Cirelli - Cory Conacher
Chris Kunitz - Cedric Paquette - Ryan Callahan

Defensemen
Victor Hedman - Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh - Anton Stralman
Braydon Coburn - Mikhail Sergachev
Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy expected to start
Wednesday's Matchup
The Lightning will try to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven Second Round playoff series with Boston...Tampa Bay is 6-4 on the road in the postseason since the 2016 playoffs...The Lightning have won seven of 13 all-time playoff series when the series is tied 1-1 after two games...The Lightning have lost three-straight games at TD Garden and four of their last five...The Bolts have won just nine times in 54 visits to Boston (reg. season and playoffs) all-time...Tampa Bay is 3-7-1 versus Boston (home and away) over the last two seasons...Victor Hedman has points in four consecutive games vs. BOS (2-3--5)...Brayden Point has recorded at least one point in three-straight games vs. BOS (2-4--6)...Yanni Gourde is on a two-game point streak vs. BOS (1-1--2) and has points in three of his last four games against the Bruins (1-2--3).
Wednesday's Storylines
The Lightning are 12-9 all-time in Game 3s and 6-5 in Game 3s on the road...The Bolts have lost two-straight Game 3s and three of their last four Game 3s...Tampa Bay is 7-6 in Game 3s when the series is tied heading into Game 3...The Bolts are 4-5 in Game 3s under head coach Jon Cooper...The Lightning own an all-time playoff record of 67-56, including a 33-27 mark on the road...Tampa Bay is 30-24 in the postseason under Jon Cooper...The Lightning are 13-8 all-time in playoff series...The Bolts are 9-2 all-time in playoff series when holding home-ice advantage...The Lightning enter Game 3 with 1,275 games of postseason experience on the roster... Chris Kunitz has played in more playoff games (168) than any NHL player remaining in the 2018 playoffs and is looking for his thirdstraight Stanley Cup and fifth overall...Kunitz ranks tied for 52nd in the NHL all-time for playoff games played...Victor Hedman has
played in the most playoff games while with the Bolts (72) and ranks first all-time in franchise history for playoff games... Tampa Bay ranks tied for second with Nashville in the NHL for most playoff games (50) since the start of the 2015 postseason behind only PIT (62)...Tampa Bay set franchise records for wins (54), road wins (25), points (113), road points (53), goals (290), home goals (145) and road goals (145) during the 2017-18 regular season...The Lightning won their third division title in 2017-18 (also: Southeast Division titles in 2002-03 & 2003-04) and finished as the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference for the second time in franchise history (also: 2003-04).
Injuries
2017-18 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 132
2018 Playoff Man Games Lost: 9
Current injuries
Adam Erne - Lower body (out indefinitely; injured March 26) - 13 games (7 playoff games)
Transactions
April 19 - Signed F Michael Bournival to a 1-year, 2-way contract
April 19 - Signed F Otto Somppi to a 3-year, entry-level contract
April 19 - Re-assigned F Matthew Peca to AHL Syracuse
Proving a Point
Tampa Bay second year center Brayden Point scored an empty-net goal and added three assists in Game 2 vs. BOS to match a Lightning franchise record for scoring in a playoff game set twice previously, joining Tyler Johnson (2-2--4 in Game 2 of 2016 ECQF vs. DET) and Vincent Lecavalier (1-3--4 in Game 2 of 2011 ECF at BOS)...Point (22 years, 48 days) is the youngest player in Lightning history to record a four-point game in the playoffs...Point's four-point game was the first of his career, regular season or playoffs...Point's three assists also matched a Lightning franchise record for helpers in a playoff game set multiple times previously (last: Jonathan Drouin - Game 4 of 2016 ECQF at DET)...Point has recorded five points through the first two games of the Second Round series vs. BOS to pace the Bolts for scoring and rank second in the series for scoring behind the Bruins' Brad Marchand (1-5--6).
Johnny on the Spot
Tyler Johnson scored his third goal of the 2018 playoffs in Game 2 vs. BOS and ranks third on the Bolts for goals... Johnson netted his 24th career playoff goal and pulled into a tie with Vincent Lecavalier for the third-most playoff goals in Lightning history.
Putting up Palat of Points
Bolts left winger Ondrej Palat netted the game-winning goal and added an assist in Game 2 vs. BOS for his ninth career multi-point playoff game and second of these playoffs...Palat recorded the third game-winning goal of his career to pull into a tie with Ruslan Fedotenko for seventh place among the Bolts' all-time playoff game-winning goal scorers.
Serg-ing Ahead
Tampa Bay rookie defenseman Mikhail Sergachev tallied an assist in Game 2 vs. BOS to extend his point streak to three games (2-1--3), the longest playoff point streak of his career.
Hed of the Class
Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman grabbed an assist in Game 2 vs. BOS for his second-straight game with a point/assist and second point/assist of these playoffs...Hedman ranks second all-time on the Bolts for playoff assists.
Hedman paces all Bolts blueliners for shots (22) and ranks third among all Tampa Bay skaters...Hedman was named a finalist for the 2018 Norris Trophy, joining LAK's Drew Doughty and NSH's P.K. Subban...No Lightning defenseman has ever won the Norris; Hedman came closest after finishing third in 2017.