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St-Pete's Gazette

Big game tonight at the St-Pete Times Forum.  The Tampa Bay Lightning is hosting the Buffalo Sabres for a must needed two points game for the Atlantic division standing. The Bolts are four points behind the leader with a record of 6-1-1 and coming back from a lost in Chicago when they outshot the Black Hawks 36-18 and could not close the door for a win.

A major line up shuffle was done this morning at practice, not by the coach, but by the General Manager himself.  St-Pierre took a line up sheet to the coaches and told them, "That what I want to see tonight versus the Sabres".

John Lu had a chance to address GM St-Pierre regarding his visit on the ice.

" Here in Tampa, we have one rule who apply to all players.  If you don't give your 100% each game, you might not be 100% on the roster sheet.  We are a competitive team and only have two great lines to produce each night, but right now, the third and fourth line have been impressive and they got rewarded."  St-Pierre told the media this morning.

" When you look at all the great players the Buffalo Sabres bring up every games, I'm shock they are not on the top of the standing.  We will take avantage of a record of 3-5-2 and three looses in a row to add two points on our standing race."  Coach Capuano told TSN. 

"Don't take the Sabres for granted, even with a bad start of the season, they are still a strong team to beat.  They are in our division, and if they want the two points, they will have to battle like it was the two last points available needed for the eight spot of the playoff run." Assistant coach Cyr told Sport Center Media

Is it true or not?!?... but someone had listed the line up from the Bolts on tweeter later after practice.  Not sure if it legit, but we have Pavelski and Seto on the third line, Hudler and Grabovski on the first line with Jamie McGinn and Halak still in net to get back on his game.  At the blue line, Yandle / Buffy, and Gonchar / Vlasic.........if this is the case, the Sabres are stepping right into a lightning storm.

Bob McKenzie TSN

Stay Tunes.......

John Lu - TSN