Lightning at Canucks preview

LIGHTNING (25-7-2) at CANUCKS (16-16-4)
10 p.m. ET; SNP, SUN, NHL.TV

The NHL-leading Lightning are 8-0-1 in their past nine games after a 5-4 overtime loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.
Vancouver has won consecutive games and has points in six straight (5-0-1) after going 1-10-2 in its previous 13.
Center Elias Pettersson will try to extend his point streak to eight games, which would tie Pavel Bure for the Canucks rookie record. Pettersson has 13 points (four goals, nine assists) in a seven-game run. Bure had 13 points (nine goals, four assists) from Feb. 17 to March 2, 1992.

Players to watch

Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov has six points (two goals, four assists) in a five-game point streak, 30 points (seven goals, 23 assists) in his past 16 games and will be playing in 400th NHL game.
Canucks forward Brock Boeser has scored a goal in three straight games and six goals in his past five. He has 12 points (eight goals, four assists) in his past nine.

They said it

"Last two games haven't been good enough defensively. The first we survived with some unbelievable goaltending but you can't rely on that every night and last game against Winnipeg, even though we created a lot, we gave up a lot as well." -- Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman
"They have a lot of great offensive talent and a lot of speed and our group faced that against Edmonton too, so we have to be ready for that and keep them to the outside." -- Canucks center Bo Horvat

Lightning projected lineup

Ondrej Palat -- Steven Stamkos -- Yanni Gourde
Tyler Johnson -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn -- Anthony Cirelli -- J.T. Miller
Adam Erne -- Cedric Paquette -- Ryan Callahan
Victor Hedman -- Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh -- Anton Stralman
Erik Cernak -- Mikhail Sergachev
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Louis Domingue
Scratched:Slater Koekkoek, Danick Martel, Braydon Coburn
Injured:Mathieu Joseph (lower body)

Canucks projected lineup

Antoine Roussel -- Bo Horvat -- Loui Eriksson
Josh Leivo -- Elias Pettersson -- Brock Boeser
Nikolay Goldobin -- Adam Gaudette -- Jake Virtanen
Markus Granlund -- Jay Beagle -- Tyler Motte
Alexander Edler -- Chris Tanev
Ben Hutton -- Erik Gudbranson
Derrick Pouliot -- Troy Stecher
Anders Nilsson
Jacob Markstrom
Scratched:Tim Schaller, Michael Del Zotto, Alex Biega
Injured:Brandon Sutter (shoulder), Sven Baertschi (concussion)

Status report

Coburn will be a healthy scratch for the first time this season with Cernak taking his place after sitting out in Winnipeg. … Stralman is playing his second game after missing 17 with an upper-body injury.

Stat pack

Stamkos has nine points (six goals, three assists) in his past four games. … Girardi will play his 900th NHL game. … Horvat has four points (two goals, two assists) in a three-game point streak.