TV/RADIO: Sunshine, WDAE-AM 620. THE SERIES: Only meeting this season. Lightning trails the all-time series 5-19-1.
KEY INJURIES: Tampa Bay - None. Detroit - D Mathieu Dandenault (broken right foot, out); C Pavel Datsyuk (sprained left ankle, day to day); C Kris Draper (partially torn rotator cuff, out); D Derian Hatcher (torn right ACL, out); G Curtis Joseph, sprained right ankle, out); D Niklas Kronwall (broken right leg, out); D Jason Woolley, back, out).
NOTES: Tampa Bay has eight straight wins, tying the season high set by Toronto, has won a franchise-best five straight road games and is 23-2-1-4 in its past 30, giving it the league lead in points (90). Detroit leads the Western Conference with 89 points. ... Lightning RW Martin St. Louis leads the NHL with 80 points (32 goals). Red Wings center Robert Lang, recently acquired from Washington, is second with 78 (29 goals) ... The Lightning beat the Red Wings 1-0 on a Brad Richards goal in January 2003 and lost 3-2 last March. ... C Richards has a career-high 11-game points streak. C Vinny Lecavalier is on a career-high eight-game points streak. LW Chris Dingman set a career high with his fifth assist of the season in a 5-3 win Saturday at Florida and had his first goal in 106 games. ... Detroit is No. 2 in the NHL in power play at home (24.7 percent). The Lightning is sixth (84.6) in penalty killing on the road.
