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No miracle appearance by Callahan, Lightning go with Marchessault

Jonathan Marchessault

Jonathan Marchessault

AP

Lightning coach Jon Cooper didn’t want to completely rule out Ryan Callahan for Game 6 despite the fact that the forward underwent an emergency appendectomy on Monday. Callahan was unsurprisingly not part of the Lightning’s lineup for Tuesday’s contest against Montreal though.

As projected, Cooper instead inserted Jonathan Marchessault into the lineup over Jonathan Drouin. That decision raised a few eyebrows as Drouin is a highly regarded young forward while Marchessault has just four games worth of NHL experience.

That being said, Marchessault has excelled in the minors with 24 goals and 67 points in 68 AHL games this season. He’ll play alongside Cedric Paquette. Tampa Bay is going with seven defensemen with Nikita Nesterov serving as the extra blueliner.

Callahan’s absence is also projected to led to Brenden Morrow playing alongside Brian Boyle and J.T. Brown. Tampa Bay’s top two lines should stay the same.

#TBLightning pregame lines #MTLvsTBL: Killorn-Filppula-Stamkos Palat-Johnson-Kucherov Morrow-Boyle-Brown Namestnikov-Paquette-Marchessault

— Bryan Burns (@BBurnsNHL) May 12, 2015


#TBLightning D-pairings #MTLvsTBL: Hedman-Stralman Garrison-Coburn Carle-Sustr Nesterov mixing in

— Bryan Burns (@BBurnsNHL) May 12, 2015

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