{"id":567165,"date":"2026-03-28T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:38:11","slug":"tampa-bay-lightnings-nikita-kucherov-nick-paul-illness-out-vs-ottawa-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567165\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning\u2019s Nikita Kucherov, Nick Paul (illness) out vs. Ottawa Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikita-kucherov\/8476453\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikita-kucherov\/8476453\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nick-paul\/8477426\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nick-paul\/8477426\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Paul<\/a> are out for Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> due to illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lightning made the announcement just prior to puck drop. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Injury Update: Nikita Kucherov and Nick Paul will miss today\u2019s game due to illness. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTTvsTBL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#OTTvsTBL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/2037930565052080231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Senators begin play Saturday one point back of the second wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kucherov and Paul each played in Tampa\u2019s 4-3 overtime loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> on Thursday. Kucherov has one assist in 18:51 of ice time and Paul was a minus-2 in 9:01.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old Kucherov has 40 goals and a league-leading 121 points in 67 games this season while Paul has six goals and 13 points in 41 games this year.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forwards Nikita Kucherov and Nick Paul are out for Saturday\u2019s game against the Ottawa Senators due to illness.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[712,49,48,218374,106193,20739,95645],"class_list":["post-567165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nick-paul-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477426","tag-nikita-kucherov-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476453","tag-ottawa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567165","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=567165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}