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Tampa Bay Lightning (31-13-4, 66 pts) at Chicago Blackhawks (21-22-7, 49 pts)

Venue: United Center
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 8:00 pm EST
How To Watch: ESPN
Radio: 102.5 FM The Bone/720 WGN

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning picked up their second straight win on Tuesday with a 4-1 victory over the Sharks. They’ve extended their point streak to 14 games, averaging 4.5 goals per game while allowing 2.2 goals per game.

Chicago Blackhawks News & Notes:

The Blackhawks picked up a 4-3 shootout win over the Hurricanes last night. They’re 2-3-0 in their last five games, averaging two goals per game while allowing three goals per game.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:

Hagel-Cirelli-Kucherov
Goncalves-James-Guentzel
Girgensons-Gourde-Holmberg
Bjorkstrand-Paul-Finley

Moser-Raddysh
D’astous-Cernak
Carlile-Crozier

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines:

Greene-Bedard-Burakovsky
Bertuzzi-Nazar-Mikheyev
Donato-Moore-Lardis
Dach-Foligno-Slaggert

Vlasic-Crevier
Kaiser-Levshunov
Grzelcyk-Murphy

Soderblom
Knight

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Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Jake Guentzel scored one of the two Tampa Bay goals in their loss to Chicago back in October.

Chicago Blackhawks

Ryan Donato had two goals in the Blackhawks 3-2 win over the Lightning back on October 23rd.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Victor Hedman – IR
RW Scott Sabourin – IR
Ryan McDonagh – IR
Brayden Point – IR
D Emil Lilleberg – IR

Chicago Blackhawks

F Jason Dickinson – DTD
F Teuvo Teravainen – Out

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