Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday:<\/p>\n
When: Saturday, January 24 – 7 p.m. ET Lines from Friday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Saturday’s Matchup Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game The Road Ahead *2026 Navy Federal Credit Union Stadium Series\u2122\ufe0f at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday: When:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-130039","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\/130039","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=130039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Where: Nationwide Arena – Columbus, OH
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
Forwards
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Nikita Kucherov
Jake Guentzel – Dominic James – Gage Goncalves
Zemgus Girgensons – Yanni Gourde – Pontus Holmberg
Oliver Bjorkstrand – Jack Finley – Nick Paul<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh
Charle-Edouard D’Astous – Erik Cernak
Declan Carlile – Max Crozier<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
The Lightning close their weekend back to back in Columbus on Saturday against the Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena…Tampa Bay lost their only game this season against Columbus on Oct. 18 by a 3-2 score and closes the season series on March 10…Anthony Cirelli and Ryan McDonagh scored the goals in that game, and Jonas Johansson made 28 saves for a .903 save percentage…Tampa Bay carries a 35-16-2 record all-time against the Blue Jackets, including a 14-11-2 pace on the road…Nikita Kucherov is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader against Columbus with 14-33\u201447 in 40 games, and captain Victor Hedman is the next active Bolt with 6-27\u201433 in 42 games…Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy holds a 17-4-0 career record against the Blue Jackets with a .927 save percentage and three shutouts for the Lightning, while Johansson is 1-1-1 with an .888 save percentage with Tampa Bay…Johansson is 1-2-2 with an .871 save percentage versus Columbus across his entire NHL career.<\/p>\n
Stadium Series Pack
It’s the last chance to gear up for the Stadium Series game! Shop our men’s and women’s Stadium Series packs including everything you’ll need for game day! Available online only at TampaBaySports.com, while supplies last.<\/p>\n
Monday, January 26 vs. Utah Mammoth
Thursday, January 29 vs. Winnipeg Jets
Sunday, February 1 vs. Boston Bruins*<\/p>\n