Tampa Bay vs Washington game thread
The Bolts hold their fate in their own hands, as they face the golf bound Caps. Gooooooooo Washington!
This game is for all the marbles. Well, maybe not all the marbles, but definitely the home ice advantage marbles.
Washington is only playing for pride, as they've been eliminated from the playoffs for a while now, whereas Tampa should come out firing on all cylinders, considering a win would guarantee home ice advantage in round 1 versus the Canadiens. An overtime loss would not be enough, and would ensure the Habs get home ice advantage.
Victor Hedman should be a game time decision, as will be Ondrej Palat.
Puck drop is at 3PM EST
| Left Wing | Center | Right Wing |
| Mikhail Grabovski | Nicklas Backstrom | Alex Ovechkin |
| Dustin Penner | Evgeny Kuznetsov | Troy Brouwer |
| Jason Chimera | Eric Fehr | Joel Ward |
| Peter LeBlanc | Jay Beagle | Tom Wilson |
| Left Defense | Right Defense |
| Karl Alzner | John Carlson |
| Dmitry Orlov | Tyson Strachan |
| Julien Brouilette | Connor Carrick |
| Goaltenders |
| Jaroslav Halak |
| Braden Holtby |
As for the Lightning:
| Left Wing | Center | Right Wing |
| Ondrej Palat | Steven Stamkos | Tyler Johnson |
| Alex Killorn | Valtteri Filppula | Ryan Callahan |
| J.T. Brown | Tom Pyatt | Nikita Kucherov |
| Richard Panik | Nate Thompson | Teddy Purcell |
| Left Defense | Right Defense |
| Victor Hedman ** | Andrej Sustr |
| Matt Carle | Radko Gudas |
| Eric Brewer | Mike Kostka |
| Goaltenders |
| Anders Lindback |
| Kristers Gudlevskis |