The Vancouver Canucks are coming off an impressive win against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night and will take that high into their matchup against the Tampa Bay Lightning later tonight. Vancouver won their last matchup against Tampa Bay earlier in the year by a score of 6–2.

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Tampa Bay has dropped five of its first six games of the season. Columbus goaltender Jet Greaves makes a save during the third period of the Blue Jackets' 3-2 win over the Lightning Saturday night at Nationwide Arena. The loss dropped Tampa Bay to 1-3-2.

The Vancouver Canucks hit the second half of their eight-game homestand with the Tampa Bay Lightning coming to town for a Thursday night game at Rogers Arena. The Canucks showed well on Tuesday with the Florida Panthers in town.

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Tampa Bay Lightning (41-21-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Vancouver Canucks (21-38-8, in the Pacific Division) Vancouver, British Columbia; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning visit the Vancouver Canucks after Nikita Kucherov's hat trick against the Seattle Kraken in the Lightning's 6-2 win.

The Tampa Bay Lightning entered Sunday night’s game with something the Buffalo Sabres wanted. But the Lightning refused to give up first place in the Atlantic Division without a fight — or five fights,

There was no shortage of action in Sunday's matchup between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Buffalo Sabres. The game featured 15 goals as the Sabres edged out the Lightning 8-7. The game also featured 102 penalty minutes and multiple fights.

The Lightning have yielded the first goal in six straight and fell behind by at least three goals at some point in each of five post-Olympic break losses.

The Vancouver Canucks (21-38-8) welcome another Eastern Conference team to Rogers Arena on Thursday as the Tampa Bay Lightning (41-21-4) visit for the only time this season. Tampa Bay is firmly in a playoff spot,