TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING NOTES:
LAST GAME
Lightning 4 at Chicago 1
The Tampa Bay Lightning earned a fourth-straight win to kick off their three-game road trip with a 4-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks Tuesday night at United Center…The Bolts improved to 24-11-1 on the season with a road record of 9-7-0…Tampa Bay recorded their 12th comeback win of the season, tied with the Edmonton Oilers for the most in the NHL this season…The Lightning have now picked up at least one point in 14 consecutive games at CHI and 27 of the last 28 meeting with the Blackhawks overall…Seth Jones opened the scoring for CHI with a power-play goal at the 4:50 mark of the first period…Pat Maroon answered for Tampa Bay with his second goal of the season when he redirected a pass from Victor Hedman past Alex Stalock with 8:36 remaining in the opening period…After a scoreless middle frame, the Bolts made it a 2-1 game at the 7:11 mark of the third period with Alex Killorn taking a pass from Brandon Hagel and beating Stalock for his 12th goal of the season…Hagel scored a power-play goal just 3:13 later with Brayden Point and Steven Stamkos recording the assists to extend the Lightning’s lead to 3-1…Nick Paul added an empty-net goal with 1:06 remaining with Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Hedman picking up the helpers…Brian Elliott got the start in goal for Tampa Bay and made 25 saves on 26 shots against to improve to 8-2-0 on the season.
PP: TBL – 1-4 CHI – 1-5
SOG: TBL – 29 CHI – 26
Attendance: 18,429
TONIGHT’S MATCHUP
The Lightning and the Wild are playing the first of two matchups this season and the only meeting at Xcel Energy Center…The two teams will meet again in just 20 days with a Jan. 24 matchup at AMALIE Arena…The Bolts posted a 1-1-0 record vs. MIN last season, winning the matchup at home in a shootout and dropping the contest on the road in regulation…Anthony Cirelli (2-0—2) led all Tampa Bay skaters in goals vs. MIN last season, while five separate Lightning skaters were tied for the team lead in points with two each…Brian Elliott and Andrei Vasilevskiy each started one game vs. MIN last season, with Elliott collecting the lone win, but Vasilevskiy recording the higher save percentage (.917)…The Bolts are 1-7-2 in their last 10 games at MIN and 3-5-2 in the last 10 meetings overall…The Lightning have scored two or more goals in eight of the last 10 games vs. MIN…Steven Stamkos (0-3—3) has recorded an assist in three straight games vs. MIN and four straight contests at MIN (0-4—4)…Nikita Kucherov has pointed in five of his last seven contests vs. MIN (5-3—8)…Alex Killorn has scored a goal in two of his last four games vs. MIN and picked up a point in three of those four contests (2-1—3)…Cirelli has recorded three points in his last two games vs. MIN (2-1—3)…Victor Hedman has points in four of his last eight contests vs. MIN (2-3— 5)…Mikhail Sergachev has recorded points in four straight games vs. MIN (1-3—4) and three of his four career games at MIN (0-3—3)…Tampa Bay is 10-16-3 with one tie all-time vs. MIN, including a road record of 2-11-2…Stamkos (4-9—13) holds the Lightning franchise record for career points vs. MIN.
TBL ALL-TIME POINT LEADERS VS. MIN
- Steven Stamkos – 13 pts. (4-9—13, 19 GP)
- Nikita Kucherov – 10 pts. (7-3—10, 13 GP)
- Martin St. Louis – 9 pts. (3-6—9, 16 GP)
- Anton Stralman – 7 pts. (2-5—7, 9 GP)
TONIGHT’S STORYLINES
Tampa Bay is playing the second game of a three-game road trip tonight…The Bolts will play eight of their 13 games in January on the road…The Lightning are 6-0-0 against Central Division opponents this season…Tampa Bay is 9-7-0 on the road this season…The Bolts are playing the second game of a back-to-back set and are 3-3-0 in the second half of back-to-backs this season…The Lightning have allowed just three power-play goals over their last 14 games, going 36-for-39 (92.3%) on the penalty kill during that stretch.
INJURIES
2022-23 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 81
Current Injuries:
Rudolfs Balcers (Upper-body injury; Out indefinitely) 16 Games
TRANSACTIONS
Jan. 2 – Signed D Nick Perbix to a two-year contract extension
MINNESOTA WILD NOTES:
SERIES NOTES
UPCOMING WILD GAMES
GAME BROADCASTS
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING
All-Time Wild Record: 19-7-4 (13-2-0 at Xcel Energy Center, 6-5-4 at Tampa Bay)
2021-22: Minnesota went 1-0-1 against Tampa Bay…The Wild suffered a 5-4 shootout loss at Amalie Arena (11/21) and won 4-2 at Xcel Energy Center (11/28)…LW Kevin Fiala led the Wild with three points (2-1=3)… LW Marcus Foligno (2-0=2), D Alex Goligoski (0-2=2) and LW Kirill Kaprizov (0-2=2) tallied two points each…G Kaapo Kahkonen made 20 saves in the first meeting…G Cam Talbot made 28 saves in the second contest…C Anthony Cirelli (2-0=2), RW Alex Killorn (1-1=2), RW Corey Perry (1-1=2), D Mikhail Sergachev (0-2=2) and C Steven Stamkos (0-2=2) all tallied two points for the Lightning…G Brian Elliott made 28 saves in the first meeting…G Andrei Vasilevskiy made 33 saves in the second contest.
WILD LEADERS: Goligoski leads the Wild with 19 points (3-16=19) in 24 games against the Lightning…RW Mats Zuccarello has 14 points (6-8=14) in 22 matches…Foligno owns 12 points (8-4=12) in 26 games…D Jared Spurgeon has nine points (3-6=9) in 16 contests.
WILD GOALIES: G Marc-Andre Fleury is 21-14-4 with a 2.67 GAA, a .901 SV% and two shutouts in 42 career games (40 starts) against Tampa Bay…G Filip Gustavsson has not faced the Lightning.
LIGHTNING LEADERS: Perry leads Tampa Bay with 41 points (21=20=41) in 51 contests against the Wild…Stamkos has 13 points (4-8=12) in 19 matches…RW Nikita Kucherov owns 10 points (7-3=10) in 13 games.
LIGHTNING GOALIES: Vasilevskiy is 3-4-2 with a 2.53 GAA, a .918 SV% and one shutout in nine career starts vs. Minnesota…Elliott is 10-4-0 with a 2.05 GAA, a .916 SV% and two shutouts in 16 games (14 starts).
FAST FACTS: Minnesota has earned points in 12 of its last 15 games against Tampa Bay (10-3-2) and is on a seven-game point streak since Jan. 20, 2018 (6-0-1)…The Wild is on a nine-game win streak in Saint Paul, its longest active win-streak on home ice (since 11/28/11)… Minnesota earned its first-ever franchise win, 6-5, against Tampa Bay at Xcel Energy Center (10/18/00).
INJURIES
Brandon Duhaime: upper body
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Dec. 24, 2022 – Jan. 3, 2023
1/1/23 Reassigned F Adam Beckman and F Sammy Walker to Iowa
12/28/22 Reassigned D Andrej Sustr to Iowa
12/27/22 Recalled D Andrej Sustr from Iowa and placed F Marcus Foligno on Injured Reserve
12/26/22 Recalled F Adam Beckman and F Sammy Walker from Iowa
