Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, the New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning face-off for Game 4 of their Eastern Conference Final best-of-seven series live from the Amalie Arena as part of the 2015 Stanley Cup playoffs.
New York looks to win a road game to tie up the series and take back home-ice advantage while Tampa Bay hopes to take a commanding 3-1 series lead with it back to The Big Apple.
The Rangers took Game 1 with a 2-1 victory while the Lightning took Game 2 at MSG with a 6-2 rout and then followed it up with a 6-5 overtime triumph in Game 3 when the series shifted to Florida.
Game 4 can be live streamed for free here.
Nikita Kucherov scored the game-winning goal for Tampa Bay 3:33 into overtime after New York defenseman Dan Boyle tied the game up with less than two minutes left in regulation.
Tyler Johnson scored his NHL-leading 12th goal of the playoffs on Wednesday while Ondrej Palat found the twine twice and Alex Killorn and captain Steven Stamkos also lit the lamp.
Derick Brassard and Ryan McDonagh each found the back of the net on the power play for New York in Game 4 while Jesper Fast had two strikes.
The Rangers allowed six goals in each of the last two games, but there was no doubt that the team was sticking with Henrik Lundqvist in the blue paint.
"Hank's our guy," coach Alain Vigneault said per NHL.com.
Lundqvist is 9-6 with a 2.12 goals-against average and a .926 save percentage this postseason.
Tampa Bay counters with 6-foot-7 Ben Bishop between the pipes and he is 10-6 with a 2.03 GAA and a .925 save percentage.
The Lightning are looking to continue their fast game, which has seemed to catch the Rangers' defense on its heels.
"I think it's just playing fast," Stamkos told NHL.com. "Both these teams in this conference final want to play fast. I think that's been our identity all season long -- transition and getting our D to move the puck up quick -- but at the same time we're successful only when we do that with structure."
Stamkos (five goals, nine assists) is tied with Alex Killorn (six tallies, eight helpers) for third on Tampa Bay this postseason with 14 points while Johnson has an NHL playoff-leading 18 points and Kucherov is second on the team with 16. The Triplets line of Johnson, Kucherov and Palat (6-7--13) has been a force.
New York's offense has been paced by Derek Stepan, who has 12 points off of five goals and seven assists while Derick Brassard is tied with Chris Kreider (6-2--8) for the team lead with six markers and has added four helpers for 10 points.
The Rangers look to tie up the series while the Lightning hopes to take a commanding 3-1 series lead when the puck drops at the Amalie Arena on Eastern Conference Final Game 4 tonight as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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