{"id":127181,"date":"2026-01-22T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127181\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:08","slug":"lightning-owner-jeff-viniks-push-brings-nhl-stadium-series-to-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127181\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning owner Jeff Vinik\u2019s push brings NHL Stadium Series to Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lightning owner Jeff Vinik\u2019s \u201crelentless pursuit of the NHL Stadium Series paid off for Tampa Bay\u201d as the Lightning will face the Bruins in the 2026 Navy Federal Credit Union NHL Stadium Series at Raymond James Stadium<\/a> on Feb 1, according to Ashley Kritzer of the TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL. Game festivities \u201cinclude a concert with country star Tim McGraw,\u201d and the NHL said that \u201cpre-game festivities will \u2018transform Tampa into a hockey-centric celebration hub.\u2019\u201d Kritzer writes for Vinik, the Stadium Series \u201cwas an experience he thought Lightning fans deserved on their home turf.\u201d An outdoor ice hockey game in Florida \u201cseems like a gamble,\u201d but both Vinik and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman<\/a> said that they are \u201cconfident the game will go off without a hitch.\u201d Venik said, \u201cThere is a risk that something weather-wise could go wrong and it doesn\u2019t come off exactly as planned, but we think, and the NHL agrees, that the probabilities are very much in our favor for having a super successful event.\u201d Bettman added, \u201cWe\u2019re mindful of what went into it. This has been well-thought-out and well-planned. Obviously, it\u2019s more challenging. All outdoor games are challenging. This one\u2019s just taking it to a new level\u201d (TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL, 1\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning owner Jeff Vinik\u2019s \u201crelentless pursuit of the NHL Stadium Series paid off for Tampa Bay\u201d as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5691,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-127181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-nhl","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127181","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=127181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}