Lightning at Bruins: Projected lines, storylines, injuries

The Lightning took a 2-1 series lead over the Bruins after a 4-1 win in Boston on Wednesday night.
Tampa Bay led 3-1 after the first period thanks to a pair of goals from Ondrej Palat and Anthony Cirelli's first career playoff tally. Steven Stamkos would add an empty net goal in the third period to round out the scoring and give the Bolts a 4-1 win.

Lines from Thursday's practice. Subject to change.
Forwards
J.T. Miller - Steven Stamkos - Nikita Kucherov
Cory Conacher - Brayden Point - Tyler Johnson
Alex Killorn - Anthony Cirelli - Yanni Gourde
Chris Kunitz - Cedric Paquette - Ryan Callahan

Defensemen
Victor Hedman - Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh - Anton Stralman
Braydon Coburn - Mikhail Sergachev
Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy, Louis Domingue or Peter Budaj
Friday's Matchup
The Lightning will try to take a 3-1 lead in their best-of-seven Second Round playoff series with Boston...Tampa Bay is 7-4 on the road in the postseason since the 2016 playoffs...The Bolts are 6-3 all-time in playoff series when holding a two-games-to-one lead...The Lightning are 4-5 all-time in Game 4s when holding a 2-1 series lead and have won three straight in such scenarios...Tampa Bay has just 10 wins in 57 all-time games in Boston and owns a record of 10-37-4 with six ties in Boston (reg. season and playoffs)...The Lightning are 4-4-0 in Boston over the last three seasons (reg. season and playoffs), however... Victor Hedman has points in five- consecutive games vs. BOS (2-5--7)... Yanni Gourde is on a three-game point streak vs. BOS (1-2--3) and has points in four of his last five games against the Bruins (1-3--4)... Dan Girardi has recorded points in four of his last five games vs. BOS (1-3--4)... Brayden Point has tallied at least one point in three of his last four games vs. BOS (2-4--6).
Friday's Storylines
The Lightning are 11-10 all-time in Game 4s and 8-3 in Game 4s on the road...The Bolts have won four-consecutive Game 4s...The Lightning are 5-4 in Game 4s under head coach Jon Cooper ...Tampa Bay owns an all-time playoff record of 68-56, including a 34-27 mark on the road...The Lightning are 31-24 in the postseason under Jon Cooper ...The Bolts are 13-8 all-time in playoff series and 9-2 in playoff series when holding home-ice advantage (the Lightning's last playoff series loss when holding home-ice advantage was the 2015 Stanley Cup Final vs. Chicago)...Tampa Bay enters Game 4 with 1,294 games of postseason experience on the roster... Chris Kunitz has played in more playoff games (169) than any NHL player remaining in the 2018 playoffs and is looking for his third-straight Stanley Cup and fifth overall...Kunitz ranks tied for 49th in the NHL all-time for playoffs games played... Victor Hedman has played in the most playoff games while with the Bolts (73) 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 (51) since the start of the 2015 postseason behind only Pittsburgh (63)...The Lightning 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: 10
Current injuries
Adam Erne - Lower body (out indefinitely; injured March 26) - 14 games (8 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
Putting up Palat of Points
Tampa Bay left winger Ondrej Palat scored a pair of goals, including the game-winning goal, in Game 3 at BOS for his second career playoff multi-goal game (also: Game 3 of 2015 ECF vs. NYR)...Palat scored both of his goals in the first 3:19 of Game 3 to record the seventh-fastest pair of goals by a single player to start a playoff game in NHL history (the last time a player scored two goals to start a playoff game quicker than Palat was when Chicago's Tony Amonte scored twice in the first 2:07 of Game 3 of the 1994 CQF)...Palat has registered the game-winning goal in two-straight games, and only two players in Lightning history have scored the winner in three- consecutive team games within a postsesason (Martin St. Louis in 2003 and Brad Richards in 2004)...Palat has scored three goals and recorded four points over the last two games...Palat (18 career playoff goals) passed Steven Stamkos and pulled into a tie with Brad Richards for sixth place on Tampa Bay's all-time playoff goal scorers list.
The Big Cat
Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 28-of-29 shots in Game 3 at BOS to improve to 6-2 in the 2018 playoffs and 10-7 for his postseason career...Vasilevskiy pulled into a tie with Dwayne Roloson for the third-most goaltender playoff wins in Lightning history.
Vasilevskiy has given up one goal or less in three of his last five playoff starts (prior to the 2018 playoffs, Vasilevskiy had never allowed one goal or fewer in a playoff start)...Vasilevskiy is looking to win his third-consecutive playoff start for the first time in his career...Vasilevskiy won for the first time in Boston in Game 3 (was 0-3 in Boston prior to Game 3)... Vasilevskiy was named a finalist for the 2018 Vezina Trophy along with NSH's Pekka Rinne and WPG's Connor Hellebuyck and is looking to become the first Lightning goalie to win the Vezina.
Bolts defenseman Victor Hedman registered two assists in Game 3 at BOS for his ninth career multi-point game in the playoffs and first since Game 4 of the 2016 ECF vs. Pittsburgh...Hedman tallied the 34th and 35th assists of his postseason career on Wednesday to pull into a tie with Martin St. Louis for most playoff assists in Lightning history.
Hedman has recorded at least one assist in all three games of the Second Round series vs. BOS after being held without a point in the First Round series vs. NJD...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.