3 Keys: Stars vs. Lightning, Game 5 of Stanley Cup Final

Stars vs. Lightning
8 p.m. ET; NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS
Tampa Bay leads best-of-7 series, 3-1

The Tampa Bay Lightning can win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 2004 with a victory against the Dallas Stars in Game 5 of the Final at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Saturday.
It's the second of a back-to-back; the Lightning won Game 4 5-4 in overtime in Edmonton, the hub city for the Cup Final, on Friday. This is the second time in the NHL expansion era (since 1967-68) that games will be played on consecutive days in the Stanley Cup Final. The Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings played Games 1 and 2 of the 2009 Cup Final on May 30 and 31. Detroit won each game but lost the series.
Teams that won Game 4 to take a 3-1 lead in a best-of-7 Cup Final are 27-0 winning the series (since 1939).
Tampa Bay will again be without captain Steven Stamkos. The forward did not play Game 4 after scoring in Game 3, his first game since Feb. 25.
Tampa Bay center Brayden Point has scored 13 goals, tied with forward Tyler Johnson (2015) for the most in one postseason in Lightning history.
Stars center Joe Pavelski scored two goals in Game 4 and has 60 in his NHL postseason career. The 36-year-old is tied with Joe Mullen for the most by a United States-born player.
Dallas will be without Roope Hintz. The forward left Game 4 at 5:46 of the second period after he slipped on Johnson's stick and slid into the boards.
Here are 3 keys for Game 5:

1. Special teams

The Lightning were 3-for-4 on the power play in Game 4 and have scored six goals in their past 12 opportunities, and they are 13-for-14 on the penalty kill.
"Our PK has killed off some huge penalties for us," Johnson said. "Unfortunately, we've taken a few too many throughout the playoffs, but they always step up when they need to. We have guys that sacrifice their body and literally do anything for us. As a team, it builds a lot of confidence that we know we can rely on them and it also builds a lot of momentum when they get those big kills."

2. Khudobin must bounce back

Goalie Anton Khudobin has a 4.73 goals-against average and .863 save percentage over the past three games, each a Dallas loss. He was 5-1 with a 1.57 GAA, .954 save percentage and one shutout in his previous six.
"He battles," Dallas coach Rick Bowness said after Game 4. "Listen, you've got two tired teams out there, you've got two tired goalies. We've been through an awful lot. They're just as tired as we are, their goalie (Andrei Vasivelskiy) is just as tired as we are. All you want when you get that way, you get to this stage, is battle and compete and play [with] intensity, and that's what Anton does."

3. Lightning's first line

The line of Point, Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov each has a three-game point streak, and Point has scored at least one goal in all three. They have combined for 15 points (seven goals, eight assists) over that span.
"They play with such skill and pace," Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. "A lot of teams can play with pace, a lot of teams can play with skill, to be able to play with both is a special talent, and all three of those guys can do that and it's really hard to defend. I don't even know if like, they played against us, if we could defend it."

Stars projected lineup

Jamie Benn -- Joe Pavelski -- Alexander Radulov
Joel Kiviranta -- Tyler Seguin - Corey Perry
Mattias Janmark -- Jason Dickinson -- Denis Gurianov
Andrew Cogliano -- Justin Dowling --
Nick Caamano
Esa Lindell -- John Klingberg
Jamie Oleksiak -- Miro Heiskanen
Joel Hanley -- Andrej Sekera
Anton Khudobin
Jake Oettinger
Scratched: Ty Dellandrea, Jason Robertson , Gavin Bayreuther , Thomas Harley, Landon Bow , Taylor Fedun
Unfit to play: Blake Comeau, Radek Faksa, Roope Hintz, Stephen Johns, Ben Bishop

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Lightning projected lineup

Ondrej Palat -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn -- Anthony Cirelli -- Tyler Johnson
Barclay Goodrow -- Yanni Gourde -- Blake Coleman
Pat Maroon -- Cedric Paquette -- Carter Verhaeghe
Victor Hedman -- Jan Rutta
Ryan McDonagh -- Kevin Shattenkirk
Mikhail Sergachev -- Erik Cernak
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Curtis McElhinney
Scratched: Mathieu Joseph, Mitchell Stephens, Alexander Volkov , Zach Bogosian, Braydon Coburn, Luke Schenn, Scott Wedgewood
Unfit to play: Steven Stamkos

Status report

Comeau, a forward, will miss his third straight game.