{"id":128606,"date":"2026-01-23T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128606\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:21:09","slug":"nuts-bolts-back-to-back-begins-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128606\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: Back-to-back begins in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Friday, January 23 &#8211; 7 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: United Center &#8211; Chicago, IL<br \/>Pregame Show: <a href=\"http:\/\/tampabaylightning.com\/Stream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBayLightning.com\/Stream<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tblightning.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Now<\/a><br \/>TV Coverage: ESPN<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><\/p>\n<p>Lines from Friday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Brandon Hagel &#8211; Anthony Cirelli &#8211; Nikita Kucherov<br \/>Jake Guentzel &#8211; Dominic James &#8211; Gage Goncalves<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211; Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg<br \/>Oliver Bjorkstrand &#8211; Jack Finley &#8211; Nick Paul<\/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 \/>Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s Matchup<br \/>The Lightning will close their season series against the Chicago Blackhawks when they visit the United Center on Friday in Chicago&#8230;The Blackhawks took the first game between the teams by a 3-2 score on Oct. 23 in Tampa despite Ryan McDonagh scoring 1-1\u20142 and Nikita Kucherov adding 0-2\u20142 for the Lightning&#8230;Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves in that game, which was tied 2-2 after two periods before Ryan Donato scored the lone goal in the final minute of the third&#8230;Tampa Bay is 36-18-9 all-time against the Blackhawks, a record that includes a 17-10-5 pace on the road&#8230;Victor Hedman is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader versus Chicago with 7-28\u201435 in 33 games, and Steven Stamkos is second with 17-17\u201434 in 29 games&#8230;Brayden Point leads all active Bolts in goals with 13 in 24 games&#8230;Vasilevskiy is 13-1-0 with a .927 save percentage against the Blackhawks in his career with one shutout&#8230;Goalie partner Jonas Johansson is 2-2-0 with an .831 save percentage versus the team in his career, with all four starts coming as a member of the Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game<br \/>2026 Stadium Series Collection<br \/>It&#8217;s the last chance to gear up for the Stadium Series game! Shop our men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s Stadium Series packs including everything you&#8217;ll need for game day! Available online only at <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabaysports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBaySports.com,<\/a> while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Saturday, January 24 at Columbus Blue Jackets<br \/>Monday, January 26 vs. Utah Mammoths<br \/>Thursday, January 29 vs. Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday: When: Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-128606","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\/128606","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=128606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}