{"id":122848,"date":"2026-01-18T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122848\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:29:07","slug":"nuts-bolts-a-sunday-matinee-against-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122848\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: A Sunday matinee against the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Dallas Stars on Sunday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Sunday, January 18 &#8211; 2 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: American Airlines Center &#8211; Dallas, TX<br \/>TV coverage: The Spot &#8211; Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)<br \/>Radio coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboneonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/22073.live.streamtheworld.com\/LIGHTNING_RADIO_24_7.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><br \/>Stream: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tblightning.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBayLightning.com\/Stream Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lines from Friday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Jake Guentzel &#8211; Nick Paul &#8211; Nikita Kucherov<br \/>Brandon Hagel &#8211; Anthony Cirelli &#8211; Gage Goncalves<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211; Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg<br \/>Oliver Bjorkstrand &#8211; Jack Finley &#8211; Dominic James<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen<br \/>JJ Moser &#8211; Darren Raddysh<br \/>Charle-Edouard D&#8217;Astous &#8211; Erik Cernak<br \/>Declan Carlile &#8211; Max Crozier<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders<br \/>Andrei Vasilevskiy<br \/>Brandon Halverson<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s Matchup<br \/>The Tampa Bay Lightning will wrap up their road trip with Sunday\u2019s daytime matchup with the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center&#8230;The Lightning are 38-25-8 all-time against the Stars, a record that includes a 14-11-4 pace on the road&#8230;Tampa Bay is already 1-0-0 against the Stars this season after a 2-1 overtime win at home on Oct. 30&#8230;Brandon Hagel and Anthony Cirelli (OT) had the goals in that game, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves&#8230;Steven Stamkos is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader against the Stars with 20-13\u201433 in 26 games, while Victor Hedman leads active Bolts with 5-20\u201425 in 25 games&#8230;Nikita Kucherov is the next active player with 6-17\u201423 in 22 games&#8230;Vasilevskiy holds a 16-4-3 record against the Stars over his NHL career with a .928 save percentage and six shutouts&#8230; Fellow goalie Jonas Johansson has never started a game against the Stars but has seven saves on nine shots faced for a .778 save percentage&#8230;Brandon Halverson has never entered the net to play the Dallas Stars in his time in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game<br \/>December Goal Puck Auction Ends Tonight Sunday<br \/>The December goal puck auction is ending Sunday night! Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabaysports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBaySports.com<\/a> to place your bid and grab a piece of history with goal pucks scored by Lightning players and opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Tuesday, January 20 vs. San Jose Sharks<br \/>Friday, January 23 at Chicago Blackhawks<br \/>Saturday, January 24 at Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Dallas Stars on Sunday: When: Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-122848","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\/122848","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=122848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}