The Tampa Bay Lightning will continue a road trip Tuesday night with a game in Winnipeg, MB against the Winnipeg Jets. Tampa Bay comes into Tuesday night as one of the best teams in the NHL after winning four of the last five games played including two in a row after a 6-3 win over Chicago. Victor Hedman was the leader of the Tampa Bay offense with two goals on five shots in just under 26 minutes on the ice. Mikhail Sergachev added one goal and two assists, while Cal Foote chipped in one goal and one assist as well.
Offensively this season Tampa Bay has been dominant averaging 3.45 goals per game on 30.1 shots. Steven Stamkos leads Tampa Bay with 62 points to go along with a team high 27 goals on 152 shots. Victor Hedman is the top set up man with 43 assists this season.
The Winnipeg Jets will play their 4th consecutive home game Tuesday night riding a two game losing streak after a 4-1 loss to the New York Rangers. Goalie Connor Hellebuyck was terrible in the net for Winnipeg posting a .818 save percentage after allowing four goals on 22 shots in just over 57 minutes on the ice.
Winnipeg has used the two goalie set this season combining to post a .911 save percentage on the year. Connor Hellebuyck is goalie number one with 18 wins in 47 games played posting a .910 save percentage after allowing 137 goals on 1515 shots this season.
