Game Day Thread: Boston Bruins @ Tampa Bay Lightning

Tonight is part II of the Florida tour, where the Bruins go to Amalie Arena in Tampa to face the Conference leading Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Bruins have been struggling a little of late, trying to find a scoring touch while working through their injury situation.

Let’s do some lines.
The Bruins still have P-Bruin callups Colby Cavé, Connor Clifton and Jeremy Lauzon as well as recently returned Ryan Donato.
They performed a couple of roster transactions today. They acquired former Dallas Star Gemel Smith from the waiver wire, They sent defenseman Connor Clifton down to Providence. Kevan Miller is officially on the Injury Reserve, and Charlie McAvoy is officially off of it.

Bruins Forward Lines
Brad Marchand	Colby Cave, man	David Pastrnak
Joakim Nordstrom	David Krejci	Jake DeBrusk
Ryan Donato	#23 Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson	Noel Acciari
Danton Heinen	Sean Kuraly	David Backes
Bruins Defensive pairs
Torey Krug	Brandon Carlo
John Moore	Steven Kampfer
Matt Grzelcyk	#79 Jeremy Lauzon
Bruins Goaltending
#40 Tuukka Rask	(#41 Jaroslav Halak)

Tonight’s opponent are the Tampa Bay Lightning. They are scary as fuck right now. Anton Stralman and Andrei Vasilevskiy are injured. They called up Eddie Pasquale from the Crunch on Sunday. (h/t Daily Faceoff and @CaleyChelios)

Lightning Forwards
Ondrej Palat — Steven Stamkos — Yanni Gourde
Tyler Johnson — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn — Anthony Cirelli — J.T. Miller
Mathieu Joseph — Cedric Paquette — Ryan Callahan
(Erne)

Lightning Defense
Victor Hedman — Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Brayden Coburn — Mikhail Sergachev

Panthers Goaltending
Louis Domingue
(Ed Pasquale)