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Lightning lines

The Tampa Bay Lightning's lines as deployed against the Canucks (W 4-2) — forward trios, defense pairs, power-play units and who started in net, measured from the league's shift chart.

Next game

Tue, Oct 20, 10:30 PM ET — at the Golden Knights.

No start projection for this game yet — the model projects goalies about a day out, and the books hang saves lines later than that.

Lines, last two games

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Lightning

vs Canucks · Oct 17 · W 4-2

Forward lines5v5 together
  1. L1HagelLWCirelliCKucherovRW12:14
  2. L2GirgensonsCMikheyevRWHolmbergRW11:25
  3. L3GuentzelCPointCGoncalvesC9:45
Defense pairs5v5 together
  1. D1MoserDCarlsonD14:51
  2. D2D'AstousDLillebergD13:11
  3. D3CernakDHedmanD8:46
Power playPP together
  1. PP1HagelLWGuentzelCPointCKucherovRWD'AstousD0:42
In netTOI
  1. G1HildebyG59:51
  2. G2VasilevskiyGDNP

Also dressed: McDonagh (D), Geekie (C), James (C). Kucherov also took 1:04 with L3.

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Lightning

vs Kraken · Oct 15 · W 4-3 OT

Forward lines5v5 together
  1. L1GirgensonsCMikheyevRWHolmbergRW9:53
  2. L2VielLWJamesCGeekieC8:41
  3. L3HagelLWCirelliCKucherovRW7:21
Defense pairs5v5 together
  1. D1MoserDCarlsonD14:34
  2. D2McDonaghDCernakD10:03
  3. D3HedmanDCrozierD9:46
Power playPP together
  1. PP1HagelLWGuentzelCPointCKucherovRWCarlsonD2:27
  2. PP2CirelliCJamesCGeekieCHolmbergRWMoserD0:49
In netTOI
  1. G1VasilevskiyG62:07
  2. G2HildebyGDNP

Also dressed: Guentzel (C), Point (C), Lilleberg (D). Geekie also took 1:01 with L3.

What changed since Thu, Oct 15

New top line: Hagel, Cirelli and Kucherov. Moved: Cirelli (L3 → L1), Hagel (L3 → L1), Kucherov (L3 → L1), Girgensons (L1 → L2), Holmberg (L1 → L2), Mikheyev (L1 → L2) and 1 more. In the lineup: Goncalves and D'Astous. Out of it: Viel and Crozier.

In net this season

Andrei Vasilevskiy has started 6 of the Lightning's 8 games, Dennis Hildeby 2, Mads Sogaard 0. Dennis Hildeby started the last one.

GoalieGSGPSV%Last start
Andrei Vasilevskiy68.885Thu, Oct 15
Dennis Hildeby27.920Sat, Oct 17
Mads Sogaard01——

How these lines are built

Every unit above is the group that shared the most five-on-five ice in that game, rebuilt from the NHL's own shift chart. Power plays, penalty kills, four-on-four and empty-net time are cut out, so a top power-play unit can't pass itself off as the first line. Power-play units are measured from power-play time only. The number beside each unit is how long that exact group was on the ice together.

Read it as what the coach did, not as a forecast. A blowout shortens the bench and an injury scrambles everything after it. The full method, and every other club's lines, are on the all-clubs page. Player projections for the Lightning live on the shots on goal, points and anytime goal boards.

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