Flyers at Lightning: Live stream, storylines, game time and more

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The Flyers have shown they can beat the best teams in the league.

Saturday gives them another opportunity to prove it as the Flyers (32-19-7) visit the Lightning (38-15-5).

Let's get into the essentials:

When: 4 p.m. ET with Flyers Pregame Live at 3:30 p.m. ET
Where: Amalie Arena
Broadcast: NBC Sports Philadelphia
Live stream: NBCSportsPhiladelphia.com and the NBC Sports MyTeams app

• Saturday marks the Flyers' second of three matchups with the Lightning.

With a win over Tampa Bay, the Flyers will own at least one victory against each of the NHL's top five teams.

The Flyers are 6-2-2 vs. the Bruins, Lightning, Capitals, Penguins and Blues, the league's five leaders.

The Flyers hold the Eastern Conference's first wild-card spot via tiebreaker and are one point behind the Islanders, who are in third place of the Metropolitan Division (see standings). According to Hockey-Reference.com, the Flyers enter Saturday with a 66.9 percent chance to make the playoffs.

• The Lightning are on a scary run. They've gone 21-2-1 over their last 24 games, are currently on a nine-game winning streak and haven't lost at home since Dec. 19.

Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy is 17-0-1 with a 1.76 goals-against average and .942 save percentage over his last 18 starts, while center Brayden Point has 13 points duringa nine-game point streak.

A number of Tampa Bay's best players are game-time decisions for Saturday.

• Since Jan. 8, the Flyers have the NHL's most goals (52) and only one team has more points (21) — the Lightning (27).

Projected lineup

Forwards

Claude Giroux-Sean Couturier-Jakub Voracek
Joel Farabee-Kevin Hayes-Travis Konecny
James van Riemsdyk-Scott Laughton-Tyler Pitlick
Michael Raffl-Connor Bunnaman-Nicolas Aube-Kubel

Defensemen

Ivan Provorov-Matt Niskanen
Travis Sanheim-Philippe Myers
Robert Hagg-Justin Braun

Goalies

Carter Hart
Brian Elliott

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