Lightning at Blues

LIGHTNING (12-5-3) at BLUES (11-7-3)

Lightning projected lineup
Ondrej Palat -- Steven Stamkos --
Alex Barre-Boulet
Alex Killorn -- Anthony Cirelli -- Gabriel Fortier
Patrick Maroon -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Corey Perry
Boris Katchouk -- Ross Colton -- Taylor Raddysh
Victor Hedman -- Jan Rutta
Ryan McDonagh -- Zach Bogosian
Mikhail Sergachev -- Erik Cernak
Brian Elliott
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Scratched: Cal Foote, Sean Day
Injured: Brayden Point (upper body), Nikita Kucherov (lower body), Mathieu Joseph (undisclosed), Gemel Smith (lower body)
Blues projected lineup
Brayden Schenn -- Ryan O'Reilly -- Jordan Kyrou
Pavel Buchnevich -- Robert Thomas -- Vladimir Tarasenko
Brandon Saad -- Oskar Sundqvist -- Ivan Barbashev
Dakota Joshua -- Logan Brown
Torey Krug -- Justin Faulk
Niko Mikkola -- Colton Parayko
Scott Perunovich -- Robert Bortuzzo
Marco Scandella
Jordan Binnington
Ville Husso
Scratched: Jake Walman
Injured: David Perron (upper body), James Neal (undisclosed), Klim Kostin (upper body)
COVID-19 protocol: Tyler Bozak
Status report
Joseph will not play after the forward was injured in the second period of a 4-2 loss at the Minnesota Wild on Sunday. ... Fortier was recalled from Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Monday and will make his NHL debut. ... Cernak returns to the lineup after missing eight games with an upper-body injury. ... Perron, a forward, will miss his second straight game. ... Bozak, a forward, was placed in COVID-19 protocol Tuesday, and the Blues will play with 11 forwards and seven defensemen as a result. ... Brown will make his St. Louis debut after being recalled from Springfield of the AHL on Sunday.