TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING NOTES:
LAST GAME
Lightning 5 at Vancouver 2
The Tampa Bay Lightning skated to a fifth-consecutive win Wednesday night with a 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena…The five-game winning streak is tied for the longest of Tampa Bay’s season…The Bolts improved to 29-13-1 on the season with a road record of 12-9-0…The Lightning swept the season series with VAN after winning the first meeting 5-4 Jan. 12 at AMALIE Arena…Tampa Bay has won six straight games vs. VAN…The Bolts jumped out to an early 1-0 lead when Steven Stamkos scored his 500th career goal at the 4:40 mark off a back door pass from Alex Killorn…The Lightning quickly went up 2-0 when Nikita Kucherov capped off a nice passing play with Brandon Hagel and Brayden Point by firing a one-timer past Spencer Martin for his 18th goal of the season just 3:48 after the milestone goal by Stamkos…Brayden Point gave Tampa Bay a 3-0 lead 4:50 later when he jumped on a rebound in front off a shot from Erik Cernak and buried his team-leading 26th goal of the year…Just 1:17 after Point made it 3-0, Stamkos took another pass from Killorn and beat Martin for a second time to give the Bolts a 4-0 lead with 5:25 remaining in the opening frame…After a scoreless second period, VAN got back-to-back third period goals on the power play from Andrei Kuzmenko and Quinn Hughes at the 6:35 and 9:10 marks to bring the score to 4-2…With the net empty for VAN, Stamkos took a pass from Kucherov and scored his 21st goal of the season to complete the hat trick, marking the first time this season that a Lightning skater has scored three or more goals in a game…Brian Elliott got the start in goal for the Bolts and had a strong showing in his ninth win of the season with 37 saves on 39 shots against.
PP: TBL – 0-1 VAN – 2-4
SOG: TBL – 25 VAN – 39
Attendance: 18,792
TONIGHT’S MATCHUP
The Lightning and the Oilers are playing the second of two matchups this season and the only meeting at Rogers Place…The Bolts dropped the first matchup of the season with a 3-2 loss Nov. 8 at AMALIE Arena…Tampa Bay surrendered a shorthanded goal to Warren Foegele at the 7:45 mark of the first period before Brandon Hagel tied the game at one 2:08 later off assists from Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point…The Lightning gave up two straight power-play goals to EDM with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl scoring back-to-back 1:58 apart to make it a 3-1 game…Alex Killorn scored 49 seconds into the third period off assists from Nick Perbix and Brayden Point to get the Bolts within one, but it would be the final goal of the contest…Tampa Bay is 6-3-1 in the last 10 games vs. EDM…The Lightning are 3-5-2 in the last 10 meetings at EDM…Kucherov has recorded 20 points in his last 10 games vs. EDM (9-11—20)…Kucherov recorded a career-high four assists Dec. 22, 2018 at EDM…Point has pointed in six of his last seven games vs. EDM (2-7—9)…Killorn has points in four of his last five contests vs. EDM (1-3—4)…Stamkos has pointed in seven of his last 10 games vs. EDM (6-6—12)…Andrei Vasilevskiy is 5-2-0 in seven career starts vs. EDM with a .902 save percentage and 3.02 goals against average…Tampa Bay is 19-19-3 with two ties all-time vs. EDM, including a road record of 6-12-2…Kucherov (10-12—22) holds the Lightning franchise record for career points vs. EDM.
TBL ALL-TIME POINT LEADERS VS. EDM
- Nikita Kucherov – 22 pts. (10-12—22, 13 GP)
- Steven Stamkos – 16 pts. (10-6—16, 16 GP)
- Tyler Johnson – 14 pts. (4-10—14, 13 GP)
- Martin St. Louis – 12 pts. (2-10—12, 12 GP)
- Brian Bradley – 11 pts. (5-6—11, 9 GP)
TONIGHT’S STORYLINES
Tampa Bay is playing the fourth 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 7-2-0 against Pacific Division opponents and 14-4-0 against the Western Conference this season…Tampa Bay is 12-9-0 on the road this season…The Bolts enter tonight’s contest riding a five-game winning streak, tied for the longest of Tampa Bay’s season…The Lightning are playing the second game of a back-to-back set…Tampa Bay is 3-4-0 in the second game of back-to-back sets this season…Tonight’s contest features the top two assist-getters in the NHL in Nikita Kucherov and Connor McDavid, who have each recorded 46 helpers this season.
INJURIES
2022-23 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 89
Current Injuries:
Nick Perbix (Upper-body injury; Day-to-day) 2 Games
TRANSACTIONS
Jan. 15 – Assigned F Rudolfs Balcers to AHL Syracuse for conditioning
Jan. 2 – Signed D Nick Perbix to a two-year contract extension
EDMONTON OILERS NOTES:
EDMONTON OILERS VS. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING
7:00 p.m. MT at Rogers Place
BROADCAST INFO: 630 CHED Radio, Sportsnet
25-18-3 – 53 PTS RECORD 28-13-1 – 57 PTS
Div. – 4th Conference – 7th RANK Div. – 3rd Conference – 5th
1st –30.7% (51/166) POWER PLAY 2nd – 28.8% (42/146)
25th – 74.3% (124/167) PENALTY KILL 7th – 81.8% (112/137)
ALL-TIME RECORDS vs. TAMPA BAY GP RECORD HOME (20) AWAY (23) GF GA
OILERS ALL-TIME vs. TAMPA BAY 43 22-18-2-1 14-6-0-0 8-12-2-1 124 124
OILERS vs. TAMPA BAY – 2022-23 1 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 3 2
QUICK FACTS
• Thursday’s game will mark Edmonton’s second and final meeting against the Lightning this season and the lone game in Edmonton.
• The last time these teams met was on November 8th in Tampa Bay, with the Oilers winning 3-2.
• Evander Kane and Leon Draisaitl lead the Oilers with 15 career points against the Tampa Bay and Evander Kane has appeared in a team high 35 career games against Tampa Bay.
LAST 10 GAMES vs. TAMPA BAY
Record: 4-6-0
GF: 27 GA: 33
2022-23 11/8/23 @ TBL 3-2 W
2021-22 3/12/22 @ EDM 4-1 W
2021-22 2/23/22 @ TBL 5-3 L
2019-20 2/13/20 @ TBL 3-1 L
2018-19 12/22/18 @ EDM 3-6 L
2018-19 11/6/18 @ TB 2-5 L
2017-18 3/18/18 @ TB 1-2 L
2017-18 2/5/18 @ EDM 6-2 W
2016-17 2/21/17 @ TB 1-4 L
2016-17 12/17/16 @ EDM 3-2 W (SO)
OILERS LEADERS vs. TAMPA BAY
NHL CAREER
Games: Kane (35)
Goals: Kane (9)
Assists: Barrie (12)
Points: Draisaitl, Kane (15)
Penalty minutes: Kane (45)
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Jan. 7 F James Hamblin loaned to Bakersfield (AHL)
Jan. 9 D Vincent Desharnais recalled from Bakersfield (AHL)
Jan. 17 D Markus Niemelainen loaned to Bakersfield (AHL)
F Evander Kane activated off LTIR
F Kailer Yamamoto and D Ryan Murray placed on LTIR
OILERS IN JANUARY
Overall – 543 GP, 256-209-52-26 – 586 PTS
2021-22 –8 GP, 5-2-1 – 11 PTS
