The Tampa Bay are trying to tie up this season series in the first game of back-to-back games against the New York Islanders.
The New York Islanders and Tampa Bay Lightning play the first of back-to-back games starting this Saturday afternoon. They will play again on Tuesday, April 1. New York leads this series 1-0 heading into this doubleheader. The first game was very close with the Islanders winning 3-2 in overtime back in Tampa Bay on the first day of February. Tony DeAngelo scored the overtime winner in just 33 seconds into the extra period. The Lightning will be favored in this game with a -230 line in their favor for Game 2. Tampa Bay is going for its third win in a row and is just two points behind Florida for the Atlantic division lead. The Islanders meanwhile are trying to avoid four losses in a row.
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The Lightning are coming off their biggest win of the season by far beating the Utah Hockey Club 8-0 on Thursday. Tampa won by that lopsided margin with just 21 shots. Jake Guentzel and Oliver Bjorkstrand both scored two goals but neither earned any stars of the game. The first star went to Ryan McDonagh who notched two assists. Nikita Kucherov put up four points with a goal and three assists and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy pitched a shutout with 25 saves earning the third star. Utah goalie Karel Vejmelka had a night to quickly forget giving up four goals on 11 shots before getting pulled. Can’t get much more efficient than that. The Lightning has a great opportunity to even this series tonight with all this momentum.
The Islanders are coming off a 5-2 loss against the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday. Casey Cizikas scored a shorthanded goal to even the score and DeAngelo put New York ahead just four minutes later in the second period. But Vancouver went on a run scoring four unanswered goals. Cizikas was the bright spot of the night for the Islanders scoring the goal and adding the assist to DeAngelo’s goal to earn the second star of the game. New York will have to dig a lot deeper to keep up with the Tampa Bay attack.
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