Game day: Tampa Bay Lightning @ Winnipeg Jets, Oct. 23

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ABOUT THE LIGHTNING

— The 4-2-1 Lightning come to town for their only visit of the season off a 5-4 shootout loss in Nashville on Tuesday. This is Game 2 of a four-game road trip through the Central Division for Tampa Bay. And the Central stretch continues with a fifth straight game back in Tampa against Colorado next week.

— Centre Steven Stamkos is out of the gate hot, with five goals in the team’s first seven games. As of Thursday, his shooting percentage so far, 26.3, was tied for the league lead among players who have taken at least 15 shots this season.

— The Lightning’s penalty kill, 29th in the NHL at 66.7 per cent, had a clean night against Nashville, nullifying all three Predators power plays.

— The Jets and Lightning split their two games last season, each winning in the other’s building. Tampa Bay won in Winnipeg, 4-2, in October while the Jets took the March game in Florida, 2-1.

— You might be surprised at who lead’s Tampa Bay in average ice time early this season. It’s workhorse defenceman Anton Stralman, at 21 minutes 52 seconds per game so far. Stralman has chipped in with five assists.

 

WINNIPEG JETS

31 Ondrej Pavelec

34 Michael Hutchinson

 

2 Adam Pardy

4 Paul Postma

5 Mark Stuart

6 Alex Burmistrov

7 Ben Chiarot

8 Jacob Trouba

9 Andrew Copp

12 Drew Stafford

14 Anthony Peluso

16 Andrew Ladd

17 Adam Lowry

18 Bryan Little

19 Nic Petan

22 Chris Thorburn

26 Blake Wheeler

27 Nikolaj Ehlers

33 Dustin Byfuglien

39 Toby Enstrom

55 Mark Scheifele

57 Tyler Myers

85 Mathieu Perreault

 

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

30 Ben Bishop

35 Kevin Poulin

 

5 Jason Garrison

6 Anton Stralman

9 Tyler Johnson

11 Brian Boyle

13 Cedric Paquette

17 Alex Killorn

18 Ondrej Palat

22 Erik Condra

23 J.T. Brown

24 Ryan Callahan

25 Matthew Carle

27 Jonathan Drouin

51 Valtteri Filppula

55 Braydon Coburn

62 Andrej Sustr

77 Victor Hedman

86 Nikita Kucherov

89 Nikita Nesterov

90 Vladislav Namestnikov

91 Steven Stamkos

 

(Lineups subject to change)

 

— Tim Campbell