Don’t miss a moment of the action as the Tampa Bay Lightning looks to extend their win streak with a victory over the struggling Arizona Coyotes.
The Tampa Bay Lightning may have experienced a few bumps in the road over the course of their last road trip; however, once they returned home to the Amalie Arena, they took matters into their own hands and seriously turned things around. This has resulted in a five-game win streak for the Lightning.
The most recent of the Lightning’s victories came on Tuesday night as the Bolts rolled into the Scottrade Center where Lightning netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy would pick up his third shutout of the season and the Bolts would defeat the St. Louis Blues 3-0. This would create some separation between the Lightning and Blues at the top of the National Hockey League standings.
Tonight, the Lightning has a new challenge in front of them. The Lightning will make their way to the Gila River Arena in Glendale where they will do battle with the Arizona Coyotes. If you have been keeping an eye on the NHL Standings this season, you are well aware the Lightning and Coyotes are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum.
The Lightning, with their 46 points so far this season, are sitting atop the National Hockey League in the standings. However, if you look a little further down (and by further down we mean in the very last place in the league, you will find the Arizona Coyotes. The Coyotes have gone 7-21-5 so far this season, giving them a total of a whopping 19 points.
The scariest part of this whole thing is the Lightning’s current dominance over the NHL doesn’t guarantee them a win over Arizona tonight. It is the teams who truly have nothing to lose who can prove to be the most dangerous. There is nowhere for them to go but up, which means they are more likely to leave everything out on the ice.
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In other words, the Bolts will have to remain vigilant and continue to play with the same intensity and grit they have been playing with since the start of their last homestand. If the Lightning can play a consistently solid 60 minutes of hockey, they will have no problem picking up another two points, later on, tonight in Glendale.
However, if the Lightning allows their old habits to get the best of them and they start to become complacent in their recent successes, the Bolts could have a serious problem on their hands. The Lightning has everything they need in order to get the job done. The only thing left to it is to do it.
While Lightning fans anxiously await puck drop, let’s take a closer look at all the information one will need to make sure they don’t miss a single moment of the action as the Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Arizona Coyotes in the hopes of extending their win streak to six.
Game: Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Arizona Coyotes
Venue: Gila River Arena
Location: Glendale, Arizona
Date: Thursday, December 14,, 2017
Start Time: 9:00 p.m. EST
TV Info: Fox Sports Sun, FS-A
Radio Info: Lightning Radio on 970WFLA or TBL Power Play on iHeartRadio
Live Stream: Fox Sports Go App in the iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store
There is plenty of hockey left to play this season, but if the Tampa Bay Lightning can continue to be a dominant force in the NHL as they have over the course of their first 30 games of the season, the Lightning is sure to find themselves properly poised for a deep run in the postseason.
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Each journey is one and on its own. In other words, the Lightning will have to continue to play each game as if it is an elimination game and make sure they leave nothing to chance when the final buzzer sounds. Judging by the way the Bolts started off this season, this doesn’t seem like much of an issue for the Boys in Blue.