The Tampa Bay Lightning will be without three key players for an extended period of time starting with Thursday's game against the Boston Bruins.

Coburn out 4-6 weeks with lower body injury #TBLightning

Palat is out 2-3 weeks with a lower-body injury #TBLightning — Michelle Gingras (@michellegingras) March 12, 2015

And Cedric Paquette out 10-14 days with an upper body injury #TBLightning — Michelle Gingras (@michellegingras) March 12, 2015

— Michelle Gingras (@michellegingras) March 12, 2015

Tampa Bay currently sits in second place in the Atlantic Division just a point behind the Montreal Canadiens.

"How we're going to (survive), we'll see in the next couple of weeks," Lightning coach Jon Cooper told Lightning Radio's Dave Mishkin before Thursday's game against the Bruins. "Other guys are going to have to step up.

"No one is going to step in and replace those guys but we have a lot of good hockey players in that locker room and we'll do fine," Cooper said.