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Surging Lightning could strike before the trade deadline, while Detroit isn't shopping Mike Green

Say you're Tampa Bay Lightning GM Steve Yzerman. Your team is playing its best hockey of the season and is trying to stay in the playoff race, and it is six days until the trade deadline. What do you do?

The Lightning head into Thursday night's home game with the Calgary Flames four points out of a wild-card spot and just five points shy of third in the wide-open Atlantic Division. Making up that ground is still a daunting task, given all the other teams in the race, but also doable, since Tampa Bay has 23 games left.