Over the past couple of seasons the Tampa Bay Lightning haven’t tinkered with their lines all that often. Sure, at some point during certain games, the Cooper Blend-o-Matic 2000 would come out to mix things up, but by the next game things were usually back to the standard. At their practice on Tuesday, the Lightning were running some combinations that fans haven’t seen a lot of this year:
This is how the top six spent most of the game against the Vancouver Canucks. The bottom lines started like this as well, but Corey Perry was returned to the School Bus Line shortly after Ross Colton’s goal.