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TAMPA Authentic Oscar Lindberg Jersey , Fla. — The Tampa Bay Lightning will look to slow down Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers when the two teams meet at Amalie Arena on Thursday.McDavid continues to put up points on a consistent basis and sits second in league scoring with 22 points through 14 games. The Oilers’ captain has registered a point in 13 of 14 games this season with seven multi-point games to this point. The only team to hold McDavid off the scoresheet this season is the Nashville Predators, who shutout Edmonton on Oct. 27.But as has been the case the past couple of seasons in Edmonton, the Oilers supporting cast ranks far behind when it comes to offensive production. While McDavid has already hit the double-digit mark in goals and assists, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl are the only other players on the roster to hit that mark in points, with 16 and 15 points, respectively. No other player has recorded more than seven points through the first month of the season.Article continues below ...McDavid had one of the two Edmonton goals on Monday as the Oilers saw a five-game road winning streak come to an end with a 4-2 loss in Washington.“We gave it away early and when you’re playing that quality of team you can’t give up goals like that,” Edmonton head coach Todd McLellan told The Edmonton Journal. “We didn’t give up much after that but when you’re chasing against the Stanley Cup champs, you’re going to lose more often than not.”Things won’t get easier for the Oilers while facing the team Washington beat in the Eastern Conference finals on the way to that Stanley Cup title as Tampa Bay uses its depth at forward as a strength.The Lightning have seven different players who have already reached the 10-point mark and four with at least five goals. And of the 20 skaters who have dressed so far this season to appear in at least two games, 12 have scored at least two goals.That includes leading scorer Brayden Point, who was named the No. 3 star of the week by the league on Monday. Point leads the way with 17 points and eight goals while tied for the team lead with nine assists.Point does all this while taking on the top defensive assignments on a regular basis — Point picked up five points last week while matched up against New Jersey’s top line that includes reigning MVP Taylor Hall — and he figures to see plenty of McDavid when the two teams get together.“He’s been doing it for a couple years now, and he’s the guy that has to face those big lines more often than not and it’s a bonus for us,” Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said. “It’s somebody who is such a good two-way player to be able to have that assignment of not only playing a big part in shutting down a team’s big line but then to get the points he was getting on top of that, that’s what makes him the player he is today.”Tampa Bay remains without the services of defenseman Victor Hedman (upper body) and forward Ondrej Palat (lower body) Reilly Smith Jersey , both of whom have missed five games and remain questionable for a return this week. NEW YORK (AP) Although the Tampa Bay Lightning didn’t like the way they almost gave up a four-goal lead in the third period, they were happy to get the win and move on.J.T. Miller scored twice, Brayden Point had a goal and two assists, and the high-scoring Lightning held off the New York Islanders 7-6 on Thursday night, setting a franchise record with their 51st victory”A win’s a win but definitely not the way we want to win,” forward Steven Stamkos said. ”When you’re in a game like we were tonight going into the third, it should be just close them out. Just don’t give them a chance.”Anthony Cirelli, Mikhail Sergachev and Victor Hedman each added a goal and an assist, Tyler Johnson also scored as the Lightning won their third straight and improved to 12-2-1 in their last 15 games.The Lightning extended their lead atop the Eastern Conference and Atlantic Division to six points over idle Boston, which has played two fewer games and is 2-0 against Tampa Bay this season. The Lightning also pulled into a tie with West-leading Nashville, which lost to Toronto, in the race for the Presidents’ Trophy – though the Predators also have two games in hand.”This is a good hockey team,” Stamkos said. ”We’ve found a way to break a franchise record Michael Ferland Jersey Womens , that’s pretty cool in itself. … We’ll continue to pile up the wins to finish as high as we can and whatever records are there, it’s kind of icing on the cake.”Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 35 shots for his league-leading 42nd win, extending Tampa Bay’s franchise record.Anders Lee, Ryan Pulock and Anthony Beauvillier each scored twice for the Islanders, who lost for the 12th time in 14 games (2-8-4). Jordan Eberle had three assists, and John Tavares and Josh Bailey added two apiece. Christopher Gibson gave up six goals on 24 shots before being pulled with about 8 1/2 minutes left in the second. Jaroslav Halak came on and finished with 11 saves.The Lightning led 3-1 after one period and appeared to take control with four goals on 10 shots in the second to extend their lead to 7-3. However, the Islanders scored three goals in a three-minute span to pull within one 4 1/2 minutes into the third.”Coming out of the second intermission you want to see fight and hunger, you want to see battle,” New York coach Doug Weight said. ”We battled in the third. It was great to see the way some of the guys stepped up for sure.”Lee got his career-high 38th to pull the Islanders to 7-4 with their third power-play goal 1:35 into the third. It was his seventh goal in six games.Beauvillier pulled New York within two, backhanding the puck through Vasilevskiy’s five-hole for his 15th at 3:21. Beauvillier then deflected Johnny Boychuk’s slap shot from the right point with his 16th at 4:36.”We looked pretty good for two periods,” Hedman said. ”Obviously in the third period we were on our heels a little bit. We’ll take the two points and get a good night’s sleep tonight.”Point extended Tampa Bay’s lead to 4-1 on a short-handed 2-on-1 break for his 28th at 2:43 of the second.With the Islanders still on power play, Pulock got them within two just 47 seconds later.Lee scored from the left side to pull New York to 4-3 at 5:15 of the middle period.Miller gave the Lightning a two-goal lead on a 2-on-1 rush at 8:27 with Tampa Bay’s league-leading 263rd goal of the season, breaking the franchise record set in 2014-15.Sergachev made it 6-3 on the power play for his ninth with 8:38 remaining in the second William Karlsson Jersey , and Miller’s power-play goal, his 20th, made it a four-goal game with 1:40 left.The Lightning, who didn’t travel to the New York area until earlier in the day because of the snowstorm in the northeast on Wednesday, got on the scoreboard with two quick goals to start the game.Cirelli scored on a wraparound off Gibson’s stick 2:09 into the first period, and Johnson made it 2-0 just 26 seconds later on a wrister from the right circle for his 21st.The Islanders were on a 4-on-3 power play when Pulock fired a one-timer from the left faceoff dot to make it 2-1 with 9:36 remaining in the opening period.Hedman restored the Lightning’s two-goal lead from the left circle for his 14th with 5:43 to go in the first.NOTES: The Lightning bested their previous mark for wins set in 2014 when they went 50-24-8 en route to reaching the Stanley Cup Final. … Miller has seven goals and 12 points in 11 games since being acquired from the New York Rangers at the trade deadline. … Tampa Bay’s Yanni Gourde had two assists to give him 58 points, second among rookies – trailing only the Islanders’ Mathew Barzal, who leads with 76. … Barzal had an assist on Beauvillier’s second goal for his 56th assist, breaking a tie with Nicklas Backstrom (2007-08) for the second-most by a rookie since 1995. Penguins star Sidney Crosby tops the list with 63 in 2005-06.UP NEXTLightning: At New Jersey on Saturday night.Islanders: Host Chicago on Saturday night.—Follow Vin Cherwoo at https://twitter.com/VinCherwooAP—