Overview

• Both teams enter 0-1-0 after the Lightning squandered two two-goal leads to Ottawa and the Devils fell 6-3 to Carolina’s aggressive forecheck.
• Puck drop is 7:00 p.m. ET at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, with Tampa Bay priced around -145 by betting markets.
• Jon Cooper pointed to late-game execution and turnovers as the Lightning’s undoing after a promising start on opening night.
• Sheldon Keefe highlighted an intensity gap and stressed cleaner exits and neutral-zone play after New Jersey was outshot 33-22.
• Projected lineups list Andrei Vasilevskiy and Jacob Markstrom in goal, with Tampa Bay’s J.J. Moser serving the second game of a suspension and Devils forward Evgenii Dadonov ruled out for at least two games.