{"id":140631,"date":"2026-02-02T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140631\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:38:12","slug":"tampa-shows-out-for-stadium-series-game-at-raymond-james-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140631\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa shows out for Stadium Series game at Raymond James Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The NHL\u2019s first outdoor hockey game in Tampa drew 64,617 fans to Raymond James Stadium to watch the Lightning take down the Bruins 6-5 in their Stadium Series game Sunday night &#8212; and the weather, the NHL\u2019s \u201cbiggest worry about coming to Tampa, was serendipitous.\u201d The temperature at puck drop was 41.8 degrees. Lightning coach Jon Cooper said, \u201cGames like that don\u2019t come around very often\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/lightning\/2026\/02\/01\/lightning-comeback-win-ages-historic-stadium-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TAMPA BAY TIMES, 2\/2<\/a>). When it comes to these outdoor NHL games, the \u201caccompanying extravaganza can overshadow the game itself.\u201d But at Raymond James Stadium on Sunday, \u201cboth the show and the hockey game were equally satisfying\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/02\/01\/bruins-blow-four-goal-lead-lose-in-shootout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BOSTON GLOBE, 2\/1<\/a>). This was a \u201cstatement of an organization, a community, a dream more than 30 years in the making.\u201d Lightning D Ryan McDonagh said, \u201cThis is a credit to Jeff Vinik, the ownership group and everybody that has been a part of this team from the get-go.\u201d But the \u201creal story was the atmosphere.\u201d Considering \u201chow long Tampa Bay has been begging for an outdoor game, you would think that it couldn\u2019t possibly match the pregame anticipation\u201d &#8212; but \u201cyou would be wrong\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/viewpoints\/2026\/02\/02\/stadium-series-andrei-vasilevskiy-nikita-kucherov-jon-cooper-bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TAMPA BAY TIMES, 2\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL\u2019s first outdoor hockey game in Tampa drew 64,617 fans to Raymond James Stadium to watch the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4386,5691,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-140631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140631","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=140631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}