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NEW YORK -- The Tampa Bay Lightning continue their six-game road trip on Sunday night when they visit the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.After starting the jaunt with victories against the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs, the Lightning have dropped consecutive 3-1 decisions to the Montreal Canadiens and New Jersey Devils. Although the Lightning started 5-1-0 and hold a 5-3-0 record, slow starts have been an issue all season -- the team has scored in just one first period in eight games.Weve got to find ways to start games on time, Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said to the Tampa Bay Times. You can have all the skill in the world, but if you dont stick to the game plan and structure and work at it, youre going to win a couple games because youre more skilled than the other team. But usually youre not going to win in this league. The parity is too great.Goaltender Ben Bishop is expected to get the start in net after watching backup Andrei Vasilevskiy allow three goals on 23 shots Saturday. Right winger Nikita Kucherov, who missed the game Saturday with an upper-body injury, is listed as day-to-day.Is it possible that Kucherov, who led the team with 30 goals last season, is back in time to face the Rangers?Could is the word. Can he? Im not so sure, coach Jon Cooper said to the Tampa Bay Times before Saturdays game. But I know hes feeling much better today...Its not a good situation, but lets just hope its only a couple games or maybe one game.Kucherovs offensive talents could be sorely missed against the Rangers (5-3-0), who lead the NHL in goals per game at 3.63. They remodeled the team in an attempt to add speed throughout the lineup and it has worked beautifully.The problem is whether the quick team has the makeup to score enough ugly goals when the pretty ones arent coming. That was the case in a 3-2 road loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday, when the Rangers couldnt get anything done in the dirty areas with their opponent sitting back and playing it safe with a lead.You know that teams are going to be patient back there, captain Ryan McDonagh said to the New York Daily News. Weve had a couple of games now needing a goal like that. We certainly had some chances, but you know theyre going to be sagging, theyre going to be taking away a lot of the slot area...So guys going to the net and getting a rebound is something we have to look at a little bit when we find ourselves in that situation.If the Hurricanes gave the league a blueprint for slowing the Rangers offense, it may be something the Lightning employ Sunday. After all, they are playing the second half of a back-to-back while the Rangers are at home and rested so turning the neutral-zone to mud could benefit the road-weary Lightning.Shooting pucks...thats something weve got to learn, Rangers center Derek Stepan said to the New York Daily News. When teams get up and are going to sit in that neutral-zone trap or whatever you want to call it, we have to find a way to get through it with speed and generate offense. Air Force 1 China Wholesale . LOUIS -- Heading into the final stretch of the season, the issues for the Chicago Bears banged-up defence only seem to be getting worse. Air Force 1 Cheap Online . But by the time the game started, the Toronto Raptors forward felt even worse. And, for three quarters, it showed as Gay shot a woeful three-for-13 from the field. http://www.airforce1outlet.com/ . Neymar curled home a free kick from just outside the area to put the 2014 World Cup host ahead in the 44th minute. 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They signed Kai Forbath on Wednesday to replace Walsh.Special-teams coordinator Mike Priefer thought the tryouts would light a fire under Walsh, who missed an extra point and had a 46-yard field goal blocked in the Vikings overtime loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 9, ushering in a fresh round of unrest after he had gone three games without a missed kick.Walsh, however, followed the Lions game with another missed extra point in Sundays game against the Washington Redskins?and has now missed more extra points (four) than any other kicker in the league this season.On Monday, as Walsh worked out at the Vikings facility on his own, head coach Mike Zimmer remained noncommittal about the kickers future.Were going to see what all the options are, he said. Were going to see what the options are at tackle. Were going to see what the options are at kicker, and then make a determination and go.Minnesota had worked out Forbath, Randy Bullock, Zach Hocker, Marshall Koehn, Aldrick Rosas and Travis Coons a week ago.?Walsh, who made the Pro Bowl as a rookie in 2012 after setting an NFL record by going 10-for-10 on attempts of 50 yards or more, saw hhis numbers slip in his second season, but his troubles really started when the Vikings moved outdoors to TCF Bank Stadium while their new facility was under construction in 2014.dddddddddddd Walsh hit just 74.3 percent of his field goals in 2014 as he grappled with the stadiums tricky wind conditions. Although he led the league in made field goals in 2015, he missed four extra points once the league moved the kick back to the 15-yard line.Walshs miss against the Seahawks, which cost the Vikings a chance to beat the two-time NFC champions in the wild-card round, came after kickers had hit 189 of 191 field goals from 27 yards or shorter during the 2015 season.But the kickers attempt in frigid conditions went wide left, and despite the Vikings attempts to carefully rebuild his confidence during their offseason program, Walsh never seemed like hed been able to fully move beyond his miss.Walsh missed an extra point and two field goals in the Vikings season-opening win, missed another extra point against the Carolina Panthers in Week 3 -- which led Zimmer to admit he went for two later in the game because he was worried about the kicker -- and missed another field goal in Week 4 against the New York Giants.When asked a week ago why the team decided to try other options, Zimmer said, You havent been watching all year? 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