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Lightning nearly completely healthy for Game 1 versus Detroit

The Tampa Bay Lightning will have nearly their full complement of players when they open the Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight at Amalie Arena against the Detroit Red Wings.

Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said defensemen Braydon Coburn and Andrej Sustr and forward

“Everybody’s ready,” Cooper said. “Only guy that’s not ready to go would probably be Garrison, but everybody else, for the most part, I’m not sitting here saying everybody’s 100 percent, but they would be ready.”

Coburn has played in just four games with the Lightning since coming over from Philadelphia in a trade deadline-day deal.