{"id":119833,"date":"2026-01-15T23:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119833\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:24:13","slug":"nuts-bolts-lightning-continue-the-trip-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119833\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts & Bolts: Lightning continue the trip in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the St. Louis Blues on Friday:<\/p>\n

When: Friday, January 16 – 8 p.m. ET
Where: Enterprise Center – St. Louis, MO
TV coverage: The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)
Radio coverage: 102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>, Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a>
Stream: TampaBayLightning.com\/Stream Now<\/a><\/p>\n

Lines from Tuesday’s game (subject to change)
Jake Guentzel – Nick Paul – Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Gage Goncalves
Zemgus Girgensons – Yanni Gourde – Pontus Holmberg
Oliver Bjorkstrand – Jack Finley – Dominic James<\/p>\n

Defensemen
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh
Charle-Edouard D’Astous – Erik Cernak
Declan Carlile – Max Crozier<\/p>\n

Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n

Friday’s Matchup
The Lightning will go for a franchise-record 12th consecutive win and also close their season series against the St. Louis Blues when they visit Enterprise Center in St. Louis this Friday…Tampa Bay already beat the Blues 4-1 on Dec. 22 in Tampa with the help of 1-2\u20143 from defenseman Darren Raddysh… Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 23 of 24 shots on goal for a .958 save percentage in the win, and Jake Guentzel and Nikita Kucherov each posted 0-2\u20142…Tampa Bay is 20-26-8 all-time against the Blues, including 5-17-3 on the road…Kucherov is the franchise\u2019s all-time scoring leader versus St. Louis with 7-14\u201421 in 19 career matchups with the Blues, and Victor Hedman is the next active Bolt with 3-12\u201415 in 25 games…Vasilevskiy is the Lightning franchise leader in goal against St. Louis, posting a 9-4-1 record across 15 career starts to go with a .930 save percentage, 2.05 goals against average and a shutout…Net partner Jonas Johansson is 0-1-0 with an .857 save percentage against the Blues as a Bolt and holds a 1-2-0 record and .867 save perccentage across his entire NHL career when facing St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game
December Goal Puck Auction
December goal pucks, scored by both Lightning players and opponents, are now up for auction. Bid now at TampaBaySports.com!<\/a><\/p>\n

The Road Ahead
Sunday, January 18 at Dallas Stars
Tuesday, January 20 vs. San Jose Sharks
Friday, January 23 at Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the St. Louis Blues on Friday: When:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-119833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}