Arizona @ Tampa Bay preview

Last Meeting ( Oct 27, 2018 ) Tampa Bay 1, Arizona 7

The Tampa Bay Lightning have enjoyed a scintillating season by all accounts, setting franchise records in wins and points on the way to what should be the club's first Presidents' Trophy. The Lightning look to capture both the Atlantic Division title and the top seed in the Eastern Conference on Monday when they host an Arizona Coyotes club that handed them their most lopsided loss of the campaign.

"We don't look at records or anything like that, we are focusing on the end goal right now and doing whatever it takes to be ready for that," said Tyler Johnson, who has scored four goals and set up another in Tampa Bay's current four-game win streak. Johnson also had an assist on Adam Erne's power-play goal in the third period against Arizona, but that served as nothing more than cosmetic in the brutal 7-1 shellacking on Oct. 27. While the Lightning were playing in their fifth contest in eight days and finishing a five-game road trip in the first meeting, the Coyotes visit Amalie Arena to begin a four-game trek on the strength of a 10-2-1 run. Arizona, which is bidding for its first postseason appearance since 2012, has been aided by its second-ranked penalty kill (85.3 percent) - which trails only Tampa Bay (85.6) in that regard.

TV: 7:30 p.m. ET, TVA, FS Arizona Plus, FS Sun (Tampa Bay)

ABOUT THE COYOTES (36-30-6): Alex Galchenyuk boosted his team-leading total to 17 tallies after recording his third two-goal performance of the season in Saturday's 3-2 overtime loss to Edmonton. "(We) can't think too much about this loss. We got the point, stay positive, see what we did wrong and move forward," said the 25-year-old Galchenyuk, who recorded the sixth multi-goal performance in 10 games by an Arizona player. Michael Grabner had a two-goal performance in the Coyotes' 4-2 win over Los Angeles on March 9 and also netted a pair of short-handed tallies in the first encounter with Tampa Bay.

ABOUT THE LIGHTNING (55-13-4): Alex Killorn registered his first career hat trick in Saturday's 6-3 decision over Washington, giving Tampa Bay six skaters with at least 16 goals this season. Nikita Kucherov set up a pair of tallies to record his 35th multi-point performance of the season and lift his overall point total to 117, the most in the NHL since Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby amassed 120 in 2006-07. Brayden Point, who leads the team with 38 goals, has one tally and five assists during his four-game point streak.

OVERTIME

1. Arizona captain D Oliver Ekman-Larsson has 11 points (four goals, seven assists) in his last 12 games.

2. Tampa Bay G Andrei Vasilevskiy has won 13 of his last 14 starts.

3. Coyotes C Clayton Keller, who scored in the first meeting with the Lightning, has just one of his club-best 32 assists and 45 points in his last four games.

PREDICTION: Coyotes 4, Lightning 2