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Tonight's Lightning Game

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By IRA KAUFMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: April 7, 2009

TONIGHT'S GAME

WHO: Pittsburgh Penguins

at Lightning

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

TV/RADIO: Sun Sports/970 AM, 620 AM (joined in progress after Rays game)

WHO'S HURT: Lightning - D Josef Melichar (lower body), D Richard Petiot (shoulder) and C Ryan Craig (arm) are day-to-day. Penguins - C Mike Zigomanis (shoulder), D Philippe Boucher (foot) are out.

THE SKINNY: The Lightning have been outscored 11-2 on the power play during a six-game losing streak. ...Tampa Bay is last in the league with 12 home wins, three less than any other club. ... Lightning RW Martin St. Louis needs one more score to reach the 30-goal plateau for the fifth time in six seasons. ...With three games remaining, Tampa Bay C Steven Stamkos is tied with Brad Richards for the franchise rookie goal-scoring record with 21. ... The Penguins can clinch a third consecutive playoff berth with a win tonight. ... Pittsburgh's top snipers are stumbling down the stretch. RW Petr Sykora has been stuck on 299 career goals for the past eight games, C Sidney Crosby has been scoreless for two games and the NHL's top scorer, C Evgeni Malkin, has only two goals and four assists in the past seven games since burning Atlanta for five points on March 17.

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