Tampa Bay Lightning (24-13-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (20-17-3, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
San Jose, California; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning will attempt to continue a six-game win streak with a victory against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
San Jose is 11-7-3 in home games and 20-17-3 overall. The Sharks have given up 138 goals while scoring 122 for a -16 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is 24-13-3 overall and 13-4-3 in road games. The Lightning serve 13.3 penalty minutes per game to rank third in the league.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tyler Toffoli has 10 goals and 16 assists for the Sharks. Macklin Celebrini has seven goals and 12 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov has 19 goals and 35 assists for the Lightning. Brayden Point has five goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 6-4-0, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.1 assists, 2.8 penalties and 5.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Lightning: 7-2-1, averaging four goals, 7.4 assists, 6.2 penalties and 17.3 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sharks: None listed.<\/p>\n
Lightning: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning (24-13-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (20-17-3, in the Pacific Division) San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62512,847,1489,88,90,89,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-117545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-62512","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}