Lightning at Golden Knights preview

LIGHTNING (6-1-1) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (4-4-1)
6 p.m. ET; TVAS, ATTSN-RM, SUN, NHL.TV

The Lightning have points in six straight games (5-0-1), including two consecutive wins.
Vegas, 3-0-1 in its past four, saw its three-game winning streak end Wednesday in a 3-2 shootout loss against the Vancouver Canucks.
The Golden Knights swept the season series with the Lightning last season, including a 4-3 win at T-Mobile Arena on Dec. 19.

Players to watch

Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov has eight points (three goals, five assists) during a six-game point streak.
Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves has scored a goal in consecutive games for the fourth time in his nine-season NHL career. He's never scored in three straight games.

They said it

"You've got to be impressed with the job they've done and the support they have. Looking forward to this game. It's always fun to play when they have that crowd." -- Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman, on playing the Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena
"I don't think we were ready when the game started [Wednesday against the Canucks]. It's definitely something we have to learn from. We have to look ourselves in the mirror and everyone needs to be ready." -- Golden Knights forward Jonathan Marchessault

Lightning projected lineup

Yanni Gourde -- Brayden Point -- Steven Stamkos
Ondrej Palat -- Tyler Johnson -- Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn -- Anthony Cirelli -- Mathieu Joseph
J.T. Miller -- Cedric Paquette -- Ryan Callahan
Victor Hedman -- Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh -- Anton Stralman
Braydon Coburn -- Mikhail Sergachev
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Louis Domingue
Scratched:Adam Erne, Slater Koekkoek
Injured: None

Golden Knights projected lineup

Jonathan Marchessault -- William Karlsson -- Reilly Smith
Max Pacioretty -- Erik Haula -- Alex Tuch
Tomas Nosek -- Cody Eakin -- Tomas Hyka
William Carrier -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Ryan Reaves
Shea Theodore -- Deryk Engelland
Brayden McNabb -- Colin Miller
Nick Holden -- Brad Hunt
Marc-Andre Fleury
Malcolm Subban
Scratched: Oscar Lindberg, Ryan Carpenter, Jon Merrill
Injured: Paul Stastny (lower body)

Status report

Engelland is expected to come off injured reserve after the Golden Knights re-assigned defenseman Jake Bischoff to Chicago of the American Hockey League on Thursday.

Stat pack

Gourde has eight points (four goals, four assists) in the past seven games. … Fleury is 3-0-1 with a 0.98 goals-against average in his past four starts. He is one shutout from 50 in the NHL. … Marchessault has four points (three goals, one assist) in the past three games.