But scoring has been a challenge of late for the Lightning. Since returning from the bye week on January 30, the Bolts have netted seven goals in five games, an average of just 1.4 per game, well below their 3.76 per game average this season. The Lightning have been shut out twice in regulation and overtime over the last four games after not getting blanked through the first 50 games of the season.

"I think it's a correlation between the way we're playing in terms of defensively and goals against," he said. "It's tough to score five goals a game and give up zero. It's a healthy balance. You've got to be careful what you wish for. Sometimes when we're scoring goals and we're giving up three or four goals, everyone's wondering what's wrong with the defensive aspect of the game. Then when the defensive aspect of the game steps it up, the goaltending's been outstanding, the penalty kill's been great, we haven't been giving up a lot, now we haven't been scoring a lot. I think you've got to find that healthy balance. In the regular season, you can try to find what's going to work for you ultimately in the playoffs. Unfortunately, last year, the last two games, we don't score any goals either. We didn't give up a lot, but we didn't score. You have to find a healthy balance."

Video: Jon Cooper on the Pittsburgh Penguins

That's where the Lightning are at this point, trying to find that sweet spot between paying close attention to its own end of the ice and limiting the amount of goals against while still maintaining that high-flying, freewheeling brand of hockey that's allowed them to become the League's top offensive team. In those same five games since the bye week, Tampa Bay has allowed only eight goals. In one of the contests where the Lightning were shut out, they still earned a win and two points by prevailing in a shootout at the New York Islanders as Andrei Vasilevskiy saved all 36 shots he faced through regulation and overtime, then made all three stops in the shootout.

The Lightning like where they're at with the defensive aspect of their game. Now, if they can just maintain that level while firing up the offense a bit.

"If you expect a team to score four a night over 82, there's not a chance," Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said. "One thing guys don't always look at is we have basically have two regulation shutouts in our last four games and the other two games we've given up two. So, there's a lot of positives going on in our game, it's just, they're not used to not scoring. It happens for a couple days and guys get a little rattled.

"But I'm not worried."

During morning skate ahead of their contest against Pittsburgh tonight (7 p.m. puck drop) at AMALIE Arena, the Lightning switched up the lines a bit to try to create a spark, putting Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov back together on the top line and moving Yanni Gourde to the second line with Brayden Point and Tyler Johnson. Stamkos and Kucherov formed one of the League's most dynamic lines last season.

Video: Stamkos on Bolts' balanced play

"Sometimes you move the pieces around and put them in spots that you think is going to be best for them to succeed," Cooper said. "We've got a lot of guys that have played together. They know what helps them and how to work, so we'll see what happens."

Another way the Lightning can help their cause is by shooting the puck more. And when they do shoot, putting pucks on frame. Too often during their recent scoring drought, Bolts shots have missed the target completely, even with nothing in the way between the shooter and the opposing goaltender.

"In the first period the other night, I think we had 14 total shot attempts, and we ended up with almost 70 in the game, so you can do the math and see what happened as the game progressed," Cooper said. "We didn't score but our scoring chances in the third were way up. If you don't shoot, that's when you start gripping the stick a little bit tighter. You have to shoot pucks and then you get the rebounds. Our team has got that creativity and skill set to be able to finish plays once they get those rebounds. But, it's that discipline of getting to the net and shooting the puck that creates all that."