TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING NOTES:
LAST GAME
Lightning 4 at Seattle 1
The Tampa Bay Lightning skated to a fourth-consecutive victory on Monday afternoon with a 4-1 win over the Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena…The Bolts improved to 28-13-1 on the season with a road record of 11-9-0…Tampa Bay swept the season series with SEA after winning the first meeting 6-2 Dec. 13 at AMALIE Arena…The Lightning are 4-0-0 all-time against SEA…The Bolts scored the first goal of the game with 1:17 remaining in the first period when Pierre-Edouard Bellemare redirected a point shot from Ian Cole with Corey Perry picking up the secondary assist…After a goalless second period, Nick Paul gave Tampa Bay a 2-0 lead at the 6:44 mark of the third period with his 16th goal of the season as he grabbed a loose puck and fired a wrist shot over the glove of Philipp Grubauer…Vince Dunn got SEA within one at the 10:44 mark of the third before Brandon Hagel and Victor Hedman scored back-to-back empty-net goals at the 18:21 and 19:16 marks to wrap up the 4-1 win…Andrei Vasilevskiy got the start in goal for the Lightning and collected his fourth-straight win and 20th victory of the season with 22 saves on 23 shots against.
PP: TBL – 0-2 SEA – 0-3
SOG: TBL – 31 SEA – 23
Attendance: 17,151
TONIGHT’S MATCHUP
The Lightning and the Canucks are playing the second of two matchups this season and the only meeting at Rogers Arena…The Bolts skated to a ninth-straight victory at AMALIE Arena with a 5-4 win vs. VAN Jan. 12 in the first contest between the two teams this season…VAN opened the scoring 4:14 into the contest with a rebound goal from Connor Garland…Tampa Bay responded with 5:23 remaining in the opening frame when Ross Colton won a puck battle and sent a pass to the point for Mikhail Sergachev before he fired a wrist shot towards the stick of Corey Perry, who redirected the puck past Collin Delia for his sixth goal of the season…Alex Killorn gave the Bolts a 2-1 lead at the 2:30 mark of the second period when he jumped on a rebound in front and fired a wrist shot into the top right corner for his 13th goal of the season with Nick Perbix and Brandon Hagel collecting the helpers…Former Lightning forward J.T. Miller tied the game with a power-play goal at the 5:44 mark of the middle frame…Tampa Bay regained the lead with Nikita Kucherov banging home a rebound in front off assists from Steven Stamkos and Brayden Point with 4:16 remaining in the second period…Hagel scored his 15th goal of the season at the 19:29 mark of the second when Killorn fought off two VAN defenders and sent a backhand pass into the slot where Hagel beat Delia to make it a 4-2 game…The Bolts earned a 5-on-3 power play early in the third period and Stamkos ripped his patented one-timer from the left circle past Delia for his 499th career goal with Point and Kucherov collecting the helpers with 14:30 remaining in regulation…VAN scored the last two goals of the contest with Quinn Hughes scoring at the 14:40 mark and Elias Pettersson netting the final goal of the contest with 2:08 remaining…Andrei Vasilevskiy got the start in goal and made 36 saves on 40 shots against, including a game-saving stop with one second remaining in regulation…Tampa Bay has won five straight games vs. VAN and are 7-3-0 in the last 10 matchups…The Lightning are also 7-3-0 in their last 10 games at VAN…Stamkos has points in five of his seven career games at VAN (6-3—9)…Stamkos has scored a goal in four of his last five games vs. VAN (4-3—7)…Kucherov has recorded a multi-point game in seven of his last 10 games vs. VAN (5-9—14), including three of his last four contests at VAN (2-4—6)…Point has nine points over his last six games vs. VAN (3-6—9)…Hedman has points in four straight games at VAN (3-2—5) and seven of the last nine meetings overall (4-5—9)…Vasilevskiy has won seven of his last eight starts vs. VAN, including wins in five straight…In five career starts at VAN, Vasilevskiy is 4-1-0 with a .935 save percentage and 1.98 goals against average…Tampa Bay is 18-17-3 with two ties all-time vs. VAN, including a road record of 7-9-1 with two ties…Stamkos (13-11—24) holds the Lightning franchise records for career goals and points vs. VAN.
TBL ALL-TIME POINT LEADERS VS. VAN
- Steven Stamkos – 24 pts. (13-11—24, 17 GP)
T2. Martin St. Louis – 16 pts. (4-12—16, 11 GP)
T2. Nikita Kucherov – 16 pts. (6-10—16, 14 GP) - Victor Hedman – 13 pts. (4-9—13, 18 GP)
- Alex Killorn – 11 pts. (7-4—11, 16 GP)
TONIGHT’S STORYLINES
Tampa Bay is playing the third game of a season-long, five-game road trip tonight…The Bolts will play eight of their 13 games in January on the road…The Lightning are 6-2-0 against Pacific Division opponents and 13-4-0 against the Western Conference this season…Tampa Bay is 11-9-0 on the road this season…The Bolts enter tonight’s contest riding a four-game winning streak, one win shy of tying their season-long, five-game winning streak set Dec. 8- 17…The Lightning are playing the first game of a back-to-back set and will face the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place Thursday night…Tampa Bay is 5-2-0 in the first game of back-to-back sets this season.
INJURIES
2022-23 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 88
Current Injuries:
Nick Perbix (Upper-body injury; Day-to-day) 1 Game
TRANSACTIONS
Jan. 15 – Assigned F Rudolfs Balcers to AHL Syracuse for conditioning
Jan. 2 – Signed D Nick Perbix to a two-year contract extension
VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOTES:
TV: Sportsnet Pacific, Bally Sports Sun
Radio: Sportsnet 650
MATCH-UP INFO
• Tonight marks the second and final meeting between the Canucks and Lightning this season: Jan. 18 (5-4 L @ TBL) and Jan. 18 (home).
• The Canucks are 20-16-2-2 against Tampa Bay, including a 20-16-2-2 record at home.
• Vancouver is 3-7-0 in their last 10 games against Tampa Bay.
• Among active Canucks skaters, Tyler Myers leads the team in points against the Lightning at 10 (5-5-10 in 29 GP).
• Luke Schenn leads all active Canucks in games career games played against Tampa Bay with 33.
• Conor Garland has six points (3-3-6) in six career games vs Tampa Bay.
• Elias Pettersson has four points in five career games vs Tampa Bay.
• Quinn Hughes registered three points (1-2-3) in last week’s matchup with the Lightning.
• Spencer Martin has yet to face Tampa Bay in his career.
• Collin Delia is 0-2-0 with an .861 save percentage in two career games against Tampa Bay.
QUICK NUMBERS
• Elias Pettersson has 18 points (5-13-18) in his last 12 games.
• Bo Horvat has 17 points (8-9-17) in his last 11 games.
• Andrei Kuzmenko has nine points (3-6-9) in his last 10 games.
• Brock Boeser has nine points (4-5-9) in his last 10 games.
• J.T. Miller has eight points (4-4-8) in his last seven games.
• Quinn Hughes has seven points (2-5-7) in his last four games.
• Spencer Martin is 6-5-1 with an .894 save percentage on the road this season.
LAST MEETING – JAN. 12/23: VAN 4 at TBL 5
Conor Garland opened the scoring just 4:14 in with his eighth of the season…Bo Horvat and Luke Schenn recorded the assists…J.T. Miller tied the game 5:44 into the second on the power play…Quinn Hughes and Collin Delia (first career assist) picked up the helpers…Hughes brought the Canucks back within two at 14:40 of the third…Elias Pettersson and Andrei Kuzmenko got the assists…Pettersson made it a one goal game with 2:08 remaining…Hughes and Miller were credited with the assists…Schenn recorded nine hits…Tyler Myers tied a career-high with seven shots on goal…Delia made 30 saves.
LAST GAME PLAYED – JAN. 14/23: VAN 4 at CAR 3 (SO)
Ethan Bear scored Vancouver’s first goal of the game to cut the deficit to 2-1 at 17:52 in the second period…Andrei Kuzmenko and Jack Studnicka collected the assists…J.T. Miller tied the game at two with his 17th goal of the season at 7:35 in the third period…Quinn Hughes extended his point streak to four games (2-5-7) with the lone assist…Brock Boeser scored the game-tying goal with just 17 seconds remaining in regulation, with Bo Horvat and Kuzmenko each recording assists…Kuzmenko and Elias Pettersson (GDG) each scored in the shootout to give the Canucks the win…Collin Delia made 29 saves and turned aside two more in the shootout.
LAST 5 vs TAMPA BAY
• Jan. 12/23: VAN 4 at TBL 5
• Mar. 13/22: VAN 1 vs TBL 2
• Jan. 13/22: VAN 2 at TBL 4
• Jan. 7/20: VAN 2 at TBL 9
• Dec. 18/18: VAN 2 vs TBL 5
