Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, the Tampa Bay Lightning (42-20-6, 90 points) and Boston Bruins (34-22-10, 78 points) face-off for the second of four meetings this season live from the TD Garden in Boston.
Tampa Bay has won four straight games and closes out a two-match road trip while Boston has three consecutive victories heading into this contest.
The Lightning enter this game in second place in the Atlantic Division, just one point shy of the first place Montreal Canadiens (91 points) and five clear of the third place Detroit Red Wings (85).
The Bruins are currently clinging to the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, six points ahead of the Florida Panthers (72) and four points behind the top wild-card team the Washington Capitals (82).
The first time these two teams met this season, Boston defeated Tampa Bay 4-3 on Jan. 13.
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The Lightning are coming in off of a big 1-0 overtime defeat of the Canadiens on Tuesday and will be without forward Ondrej Palat (lower-body) and defenseman Braydon Coburn (lower-body).
"There's nothing we can about it now," Lightning captain Steven Stamkos told NHL.com. "We have to find a way. The teams that we're going to be playing down the stretch are definitely not going to be feeling sorry for us because we lost some pretty good players."
Stamkos is third in the NHL with 36 points and is second on Tampa Bay with 61 points while Tyler Johnson has paced the Lightning with 65 points off of 25 tallies and 40 assists.
The Bruins enter play on the heels of a 3-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday.
Patrice Bergeron has paced Boston with 47 points off of 18 goals and 29 assists while Loui Eriksson (17 tallies, 22 helpers) and Dougie Hamilton (10 markers, 29 assists) are tied for second on the Bruins with 39 points.
In between the pipes, Boston is set to turn to Tuukka Rask and he is 27-16-10 with a 2.31 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage.
Tampa Bay counters with Ben Bishop in the crease and he is fourth in the league with 33 wins while adding a 2.34 GAA and a .914 save percentage.
Two surging teams go head-to-head with two big points on the line when the puck drops on the Lightning and Bruins live tonight from the TD Garden in Boston.
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