The Lightning came out for pregame skate featuring the same lines that they had used during morning skate, with Ben Bishop leading the team on to the ice as. Cedric Paquette was scratched, and J.T. Brown came back into the lineup. Nikita Nesterov was also scratched and replaced by the just-recalled Slater Koekkoek.
#Bolts pregame lines #TBLvsNYI:
Palat-Stamkos-Kucherov
Killorn-Johnson-Point
Drouin-Filppula-Callahan
Namestnikov-Boyle-Brown— Bryan Burns (@BBurnsNHL) November 1, 2016The game started off with quite a bit of excitement. Just a few shifts into the game, Calvin de Haan caught Jonathan Drouin with a high hit to the head that sent him to the dressing room.