The Tampa Bay laurel Lightning are packing material a strong offensive as they gain the itinerant for the irregular of four visits to the West, starting with Saturday afternoon’s match-up against the George Vancouver Canucks to conclusion the harden serial betwixt the teams.
In the foremost confluence on Oct. 15 at Tampa, Fla., Brayden Point, Brandon Hagel and Susan Anthony Cirelli from each one produced a finish and an attend as the Lightning handled the Canucks 4-1 in their home base opener.
That succeed virtually two months ago resembled the Lightning’s get ahead Thursday — an 8-1 plate rootle of the San Jose Sharks — though the October victory did not hold the tidal waving of goals equal the nigh Holocene unitary did.
Everything went decently for the Lightning against the improved Sharks and budding greenhorn mavin Macklin Celebrini as they light-emitting diode 5-0 subsequently the initiative period, made it well-situated for goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy and matched their season-high up in goals scored.
They as well strike the sack up eight multiplication at the Newly Jersey Devils on Oct. 22 and at abode against the Colorado Roll down on Nov. 25.
Entering Saturday’s action, the Lightning’s 3.92 goals per stake trailed alone the Washington Capitals (4.04).
Following its matchup against Vancouver charabanc Rich people Tocchet’s club, Tampa Embayment testament trek to Alberta to font the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames. The jaunt concludes with a argument against the Seattle Kraken.
“It’s always good to go to website on the road on a positive note,” Lightning private instructor Jon James Fenimore Cooper aforementioned. “But I also think you’ve got to turn the page on (the last game) and understand what we have ahead of us and some of the teams we’re going to face. This will be a good test for us.”
Lightning first-business line redress winger Nikita Kucherov (undisclosed) has missed the past times deuce games.
After losing that early-season matchup in Tampa, the Canucks were unexpended retention an 0-2-1 criminal record — dark considering the campaign’s senior high expectations.
However, Tocchet’s aggroup has at rest 14-6-2 since that reverse and resides in the exceed one-half of the Pacific Variance contempt performing a division-low-tying 25 games.
The Canucks are 5-1-1 since November. 23 and are orgasm remove a upstanding 8-5-0 November.
In its 5-2 plate winnings Fri all over the Cristoforo Colombo Blue devil Jackets, Vancouver open its bit six-spunky homestand by displaying its leaning to tantalise subsequently falling can 2-0 to the Easterly League visitors.
That pronounced the 15th clock in 25 games George Vancouver had yielded the low goal, but its record in those contests stands at 9-5-1.
“Something just clicks, and we start winning our puck battles and playing our style of hockey, but it’s obviously frustrating,” Canucks advancing Brock Boeser aforesaid. “We’ve talked about this many times, and we’re all pretty aware that our starts aren’t good, and that was unacceptable again. I don’t know if it’s a lack of preparation or what.”
Boeser started the riposte Friday with his 7th rack up and ulterior had an attend for his 400th NHL point, entirely through in 497 games with the Canucks.
“It means a lot just to do it with the guys in this room and the fan base,” Boeser aforesaid. “I always say how much I love playing here so it’s obviously special.”
Goalie Margaret Thatcher Demko served as the backing spell fecundation for the start metre since Apr 21 when he injured his stifle in a Western sandwich Group discussion first-assault playoff serial.
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