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Video: Red Wings face the Bolts in Round 1 of the playoffs

The teams split the four regular-season games in 2015-16, but Lightning won the two most recent games, outscoring Detroit 9-3. The Red Wings managed eight goals in the four games against Tampa Bay.

The Lightning may be a different team from the one that rallied to win last spring because of the absence of forward Steven Stamkos, who is out from 1-3 months after having surgery to remove a blood clot. However, they did not rely on Stamkos much to defeat the Red Wings last year. Tyler Johnson scored six goals in the series; it was the beginning of a two-month coming-out party for the second-year Lightning center. Goalie Ben Bishop had a .922 save percentage in theseries.

No player on Detroit had as many points as Johnson had goals in the series. Center Pavel Datsyuk had five points and was tied for the team lead with Tomas Tatar, who had three goals.

Goaltender Petr Mrazek, then the backup, played in every game of the series and had a .925 save percentage. The Red Wings have been leaning on Jimmy Howard, their other goalie, down the stretch of the 2015-16 regular season.

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Lightning: Stamkos will not be available while he recovers from surgery to remove a blood clot from under his right collarbone, so the Lightning will look to other sources for goals. There has been little consistency in the line pairings this season; injuries and stretches of ineffective play have forced coach Jon Cooper to juggle his