"Sooner or later, you're going to get sick of someone in your face all night," Malone said. "I think it's just human nature. You try to get in their personal space as much as you can and make them feel frustrated, and maybe they'll do something stupid — if they punch you in the face or give you a cross-check."

"You've got to be the person getting under the other guy's skin or else you're not going to be successful," Lightning center Dana Tyrell said. "That's how you get the opportunities and the chances.

"I think the first game, they got under our skin a bit. And the second game, we took it back to them a bit. We're going to take it to them (tonight), and I think whoever is going to get under the opponent's skin is going to win."

"A huge thing is just being first on the pucks," Tyrell said.

"If you're beating Pittsburgh to the puck all night, they're going to get upset, and they might take penalties. And that's how we're going to get our opportunities — finishing checks, just working hard and keeping our stick on the ice."