{"id":384434,"date":"2026-01-02T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/384434\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:10:15","slug":"lightning-at-sharks-projected-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/384434\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning at Sharks projected lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIGHTNING (24-13-3) at SHARKS (20-17-3)<\/p>\n<p>4 p.m. ET; The Spot, NBCSCA<\/p>\n<p>Lightning projected lineup<\/p>\n<p>Gage Goncalves &#8212; Brayden Point &#8212; Nikita Kucherov<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Hagel &#8212; Anthony Cirelli &#8212; Jake Guentzel<\/p>\n<p>Zemgus Girgensons &#8212; Yanni Gourde &#8212; Pontus Holmberg<\/p>\n<p>Nick Paul &#8212; Dominic James &#8212; Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/p>\n<p>J.J. Moser &#8212; Darren Raddysh<\/p>\n<p>Charle-Edouard D&#8217;Astous &#8212; Erik Cernak<\/p>\n<p>Declan Carlile &#8212; Max Crozier<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n<p>Scratched: Curtis Douglas, Jack Finley<\/p>\n<p>Injured: Ryan McDonagh (lower body), Victor Hedman (elbow), Emil Lilleberg (undisclosed), Scott Sabourin (undisclosed)<\/p>\n<p>Sharks projected lineup<\/p>\n<p>William Eklund &#8212; Macklin Celebrini &#8212; Igor Chernyshov<\/p>\n<p>Collin Graf &#8212; Alexander Wennberg &#8212; Tyler Toffoli<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Skinner &#8212; Ty Dellandrea &#8212; Pavol Regenda<\/p>\n<p>Barclay Goodrow &#8212; Zack Ostapchuk &#8212; Ryan Reaves<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Orlov &#8212; Timothy Liljegren<\/p>\n<p>Mario Ferraro &#8212; Shakir Mukhamadullin<\/p>\n<p>Sam Dickinson &#8212; Vincent Iorio<\/p>\n<p>Yaroslav Askarov<\/p>\n<p>Alex Nedeljkovic<\/p>\n<p>Scratched: Nick Leddy<\/p>\n<p>Injured: Vincent Desharnais (upper body), Philipp Kurashev (upper body), Will Smith (upper body), John Klingberg (lower body), Adam Gaudette (lower body)<\/p>\n<p>Status report<\/p>\n<p>Liljegren could return after missing five games with an upper-body injury. &#8230; Klingberg is doubtful; the defenseman played 19:16 in a 5-4 win at the Anaheim Ducks on Monday. &#8230; Gaudette is not expected to play; the forward left in the second period Monday and did not return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIGHTNING (24-13-3) at SHARKS (20-17-3) 4 p.m. ET; The Spot, NBCSCA Lightning projected lineup Gage Goncalves &#8212; Brayden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-384434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}