Goalie Start
Vasilevskiy starts Tuesday in Buffalo.
The Lightning are set to play four games in six days this week but lost both goalies, Mikhail Sergachev and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare to COVID-19 on Sunday and both Anthony Cirelli and Andrej Sustr on Monday. With both Vasilevskiy and Brian Elliott out, Maxime Lagace is expected to be promoted and start on Tuesday.
Vasilevskiy stopped 26 of 28 shots in the Lightning's win over the Panthers on Saturday. The win snapped a brief two-game losing skid for Vasilevskiy, who is now 4-0-2 with a 1.63 GAA and .944 SV% in his last six starts. Tonight he faces an Islanders team that is 5-4-2 and ranks 27th in goal-scoring (2.45 GF/gm).