Tampa Bay Lightning (6-3-0, 12 pts) at Colorado Avalanche (5-5-0, 10 pts)
Venue: Ball Arena
Date: Tonight – Wednesday, October 30
Time: 9:00 pm ET / 7:00 pm MT
TV: ESPN+ / FDSS / ALT
Radio:
Tampa Bay – The Bone 102.5. FM
Colorado – Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 FM / 950 AM
DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Tampa Bay -1.5 ML -110
Colorado +1.5 ML -105
O/U 6.5
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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:
Tampa Bay has won two in a row after defeating Nashville 3-2 in overtime in their last game. Nick Paul had the game-winning goal 3:22 into overtime for the Lightning, ruining the return of longtime Bolt Steven Stamkos to Tampa Bay.
Colorado Avalanche News & Notes:
The Avalanche had their 5-game winning streak snapped on Monday night in a 5-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks. The Avalanche are still having issues keeping the puck out of their net, allowing 4.10 goals per game, 30th in the league.
Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines
Guentzel-Point-Kucherov
Hagel-Cirelli-Geekie
Eyssimont-Paul-Chaffee
Girgensons-Glendening-Atkinson
Hedman-Moser
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix
Vasilevskiy
Johansson
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Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines
Kovalenko-MacKinnon-Rantanen
Ivan-Mittelstadt-O’Connor
Tynan-Kelly-Kiviranta
Wagner-Steinberg-Kylington
Toews-Makar
Girard-Manson
De Haan-Malinski
Annunen
Georgiev
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Players To Watch:
Tampa Bay Lightning
Nikita Kucherov had his 8-game point streak snapped against the Predators. Kucherov leads Tampa Bay in points with 14 (8g, 6a) on the season, tied for 8th in the NHL in scoring. His 8 goals are tied for 3rd in the league with Kyle Conner, Sam Bennett, and Ross Colton.
Colorado Avalanche
Casey Mittlestadt has fit in nicely since he was acquired from Buffalo for Defenseman Bowen Byram. Mittlestadt has 13 points this season (6g, 7a) and currently has a 4-game point streak with 2 goals and 6 assists over that span.
Injury Report:
Tampa Bay Lightning
None
Colorado Avalance
C Ross Colton – OUT
LW Miles Wood – OUT
LW Jonathan Drouin – OUT
RW Valeri Nichushkin – IR (Non-Roster)
LW Gabriel Landeskog – LTIR
Next game
Tampa Bay Lightning – November 1 at Minnesota
Colorado Avalance – November 2 at Nashville
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