The Lightning just can't catch a break with injuries this season. A day after announcing Michel Ouellet will be out four to six weeks with a separated shoulder, the team announced center Chris Gratton will be out two weeks with an unspecified hip injury, though Gratton said it was just wear and tear and was confident the two weeks should heal things up.

Consider who is out: Defenseman Dan Boyle (wrist), center Tim Taylor (hip), center Ryan Craig (knee), Ouellet and now Gratton.

The team entering Saturday's game with the Capitals already has lost 56 man games to injury or illness. If you do not include Rob DiMaio's 82 games from last season because of a preseason concussion, this season's 56 games is more than any Lightning season since 2002-03, when it lost 143.

What that means for tonight is that both Craig MacDonald, scratched for seven straight games, and Norfolk call-up Blair Jones will be in the lineup.

Johan Holmqvist, puled in his last two starts, will start in goal.