Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Tampa Bay Lightning (27-15-4, 58 points) and New York Rangers (24-20-3, 51 points) hit the ice at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the third and final meeting against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Tampa Bay fans can hear all of the action by turning their dials to WFLA 970 while New York fans can do the same on 98.7 ESPN New York.
Tampa Bay enters play having alternated wins and losses through their last six games while New York has won three games in a row. The Rangers and Lightning have split the season series thus far, with the Lightning picking up a win in Tampa Bay by a score of 5-0 on Nov. 25 and the Rangers scoring a 4-3 victory on Dec. 29 in New York.
The Lightning is coming off of a 3-2 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets Monday night and will look to bounce back.
"We had an awful start," coach Jon Cooper said via NHL.com. "We roared back in the second. We found our legs. We were OK in the third. Ultimately, we had way too many penalties. It turned into a special-teams game and theirs was better than ours."
The Rangers have had some good news with Henrik Lundqvist as the former Vezina Trophy winner seems to be finding his game and earned the NHL's third star of the week honors.
"There's still some work to be done here, but at least it's going in the right direction," Lundqvist said after practice Monday per NHL.com. "I realized a few weeks or maybe a month back that I'm not going to turn this around in one game or two games, that it's going to take a while and I have to take it step by step, work hard and, win or lose, at least I have to play my game and stick to it."
Lundqvist is set to start Tuesday and is 15-16-3 with a 2.68 GAA and .910 save percentage. He'll be opposed by Ben Bishop who returns to action (sprained wrist) Monday for the first time since Jan. 5 and is 22-5-3 with a 1.86 GAA and a .935 save percentage.
New York has been led by Brad Richards, who has 34 points off of 11 goals and 23 assists while Mats Zuccarello has found the back of the net 11 times and added 22 helpers for 33 points and Chris Kreider has five points in his last five games for a total of 27 points off of 12 markers and 15 assists.
Martin St. Louis paces Tampa Bay with 43 points off of 20 goals and 23 assists while Valtteri Filppula has lit the lamp 18 times and added 18 helpers for 36 points and Alex Killorn ranks third on the team by finding the twine 12 times while adding 16 assists for 28 points.
The Lightning look for some consistency while the Rangers hope to notch their fourth win in a row when the lights come up tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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