Denver at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Brooklyn at Houston, 8 p.m. Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Washington at Minnesota, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at New York, 8:30 p.m. Miami at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

No NHL team is playing better right now than the surging New York Islanders, who will hunt for their seventh straight win when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night.