Lightning visit the Chicago Blackhawks

The Tampa Bay Lightning will play the Chicago Blackhawks twice in the next five days, starting on Friday night in Chicago. The Lightning are 0-2 so far on their road-trip and would love nothing more than to grab two points.

Jon Cooper shuffled up the lines for Thursday's practice, moving Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel to the top line with Nikita Kucherov. Mikey Eyssimont was moved to the second line with Jake Guentzel and Brayden Point.

With games happening almost every other night this month, the Lightning had two consecutive days off this week. The month of January is coming to a close but before it ends, they have one more set of back-to-back games this weekend in Chicago and divisional matchup in Detroit.

The Blackhawks are coming off 4-3 loss in overtime against the Carolina Hurricanes Monday night.

Here’s a look at the practice lines from Thursday:

Forwards
Brandon Hagel - Anthony Cirelli - Nikita Kucherov
Jake Guentzel - Brayden Point - Mikey Eyssimont
Zemgus Girgensons - Nick Paul - Conor Geekie
Mitchell Chaffee - Luke Glendening - Cam Atkinson

Defensemen
Victor Hedman - Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh - Max Crozier
Emil Lilleberg - Nick Perbix

Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

The Lightning finished the 2023-24 season with a 1-1-0 record against Chicago. Puck drop is at 8pm EST.