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Tonight: Lightning vs. Blue Jackets

WHEN/WHERE: 7:30; Ice Palace, Tampa.

TV/RADIO: Sunshine; WDAE-AM 620.

THE LOWDOWN: This is the only meeting of the season with Columbus. ... Tampa Bay is home after a three-game trip but is scheduled to leave Friday for a five-game trip to Canada. ... If you love low-scoring games, don't miss this one. Each team had 54 goals in its first 27 games, tied for last in the league at two per game. Columbus, however, had given up 74 to Tampa Bay's 59, third fewest. ... Blue Jackets RW Grant Marshall has a team-high seven goals and LW Ray Whitney 15 points (6 goals, 9 assists). ... Lightning LW Fredrik Modin, who missed two games with a deep thigh bruise, returned to score a goal in Tuesday's tie at New Jersey. He has at least one point in his past six games and shares the team lead of 17 points with C Brad Richards. ... In two games last season, the first for the expansion Blue Jackets, each team won at home, including a 4-1 Lightning victory.

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