Lightning at Rangers preview

LIGHTNING (5-3-2) at RANGERS (3-5-1)
7:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, NHL.TV

Zibanejad, the Rangers leading scorer with 11 points (four goals, seven assists), is day to day with an upper-body injury. Filip Chytil will take his place in the lineup after being recalled from Hartford of the American Hockey League on Monday.
The Lightning could be without centers Brayden Point and Anthony Cirelli; neither took part in the morning skate and coach Jon Cooper said each is questionable, although not likely to play.
The Lightning, who were defeated 3-2 in overtime by the Nashville Predators on Saturday, are playing the first of five in a row away from home on a 12-day road trip that features two games in Stockholm against the Buffalo Sabres as part of the 2019 NHL Global Series.
The Rangers are coming off a 7-4 loss against the Boston Bruins on Sunday and have lost six of their past seven games (1-5-1).

Players to watch

Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman has points in five straight games (two goals, three assists).
Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo has six points (three goals, three assists) in his past three games. He is the first Rangers defenseman to have three straight multi-point games since Brian Leetch (Feb. 1-5, 1997).

They said it

"If anything we're coming off a game where we felt we should have gotten two points against Nashville and we've got to be hungry tonight. We need to start this trip off right."-- Lightning center Steven Stamkos
"If [Chytil] plays the way he has been he'll be here for a while, and that's what we're anticipating. He's a guy we think very highly of and he's done a great job in Hartford. He's a guy we're counting on moving forward." -- Rangers coach David Quinn

Lightning projected lineup

Ondrej Palat -- Steven Stamkos -- Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn -- Tyler Johnson -- Mathieu Joseph
Patrick Maroon -- Cedric Paquette -- Yanni Gourde
Carter Verhaege
-- Luke Witkowski
Victor Hedman -- Kevin Shattenkirk
Ryan McDonagh -- Erik Cernak
Braydon Coburn -- Mikhail Sergachev
Jan Rutta
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Curtis McElhinney
Scratched:None
Injured:Anthony Cirelli (undisclosed), Brayden Point (undisclosed)

Rangers projected lineup

Chris Kreider -- Filip Chytil -- Pavel Buchnevich
Artemi Panarin -- Ryan Strome -- Kaapo Kakko
Brendan Lemieux -- Brett Howden -- Jesper Fast
Greg McKegg -- Lias Andersson -- Brendan Smith
Libor Hajek -- Jacob Trouba
Brady Skjei -- Tony DeAngelo
Marc Staal -- Adam Fox
Alexandar Georgiev
Henrik Lundqvist
Scratched:Micheal Haley, Ryan Lindgren
Injured: Mika Zibanejad (upper body), link-placeholder-21

Status report

Tampa Bay will use 11 forwards and seven defensemen if Point and Cirelli are out. ... Rutta has not played this season. … Quinn wouldn't confirm anything about the Rangers lineup other than saying Chytil, who had nine points (three goals, six assists) in nine games with Hartford, will play with Kreider and Buchnevich, and Georgiev will start.

Stat pack

Panarin has five points (three goals, two assists) in his past five games.