The New York Rangers will play the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday in Game 3 of their NHL Stanley Cup 2015 series. Coming into tonight's big game, things are locked at 1-1 after the two games at Madison Square Garden, and now that things are moving to Florida for the next two games, the Lightning will be hoping to turn the screw and roll out two wins and take control of this series.
Tonight's big NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs game between the New York Rangers and the Tampa Bay Lightning will have a start time of 8 p.m. ET and will take place at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.
The game can be watched on the NBC Sports network, but will also be available to watch online through live stream via the link below.
The Rangers will be disappointed to have left Madison Square Garden with the series level at 1-1. They suffered an embarrassing showing in Game 2, and they will need to shake that loss off and get back to the basics well to make sure they don't allow the Lightning to take a grip of the series over the next two games in Tampa.
The one positive for the Rangers is that they've done fantastically well on the road throughout the season, and there is no more important time this season for them to give their top road performances than in the next couple of games.
Through the regular season, the Rangers won 28 road games - a franchise record, and they have also had positive results on the road in the postseason, going 3-2 so far on the road.
Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh has said ahead of tonight's game: "We really don't talk about changing much. At this stage the crowd is going to be pretty energetic regardless of what's going on in the game.
"For us it's getting a hold of the puck and making good decisions with it and making sure we don't give it up easily against these guys."
The Rangers must learn the lessons from Game 2 quickly or they could quickly be swept aside by a very strong Tampa Bay team. To start with they simply must keep the puck much better than they did in Game 2, where they also gave the Lightning six power plays.
McDonagh has said, "This is the Eastern Conference Final, there are only two teams here battling for a chance to go on to compete for the Cup. We've gotta give ourselves a better chance here to keep this dream alive."
Tonight's big Game 3 between the New York Rangers and the Tampa Bay Lightning has a scheduled start time of 8 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the NBCS network or online through live stream by clicking here.
