Bruins roll with a familiar lineup in Game 2

TAMPA BAY, Florida – The Bruins will be at full strength with the same lineup for Monday night’s Game 2 against the Tampa Bay Lightning after both David Krejci and Kevan Miller missed Sunday’s practice with very minor issues. Bruce Cassidy indicated there won’t be any changes to the 12 forwards and six D-men along with starting goalie Tuukka Rask after last weekend’s Game 1 win over the Bolts, but there could be some in-game switching between the third and fourth line centers depending on how the match-ups play out.

That could potentially mean Sean Kuraly up with David Backes as they were in last spring’s playoffs to very good effect, and Riley Nash with Noel Acciari and Tim Schaller in a role that isn’t foreign for him either.

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“The play of these two individuals for the most part, and the play of whoever they’re matched up against,” said Cassidy, when asked how he’d decide on his third and fourth line centers with the last change in Tampa. “We can only pre-plan so much with them having the last change, so if it’s [Nikita] Kucherov and [Steven] Stamkos then Nash has been a good 200-foot player for us all year. Kuraly is a guy that we trust against anybody.

“They’re different kinds of styles: Riley is a little more methodical in his approach Sean is all about closing and taking away time and space. Whatever the best fit is, that’s probably how we’ll determine that.”

Here are the projected line combos and D-pairings against the Lightning based on Monday’s optional morning skate at Amalie Arena: