{"id":144202,"date":"2026-02-05T02:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144202\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T02:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:17:07","slug":"nuts-bolts-one-more-before-the-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144202\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: One more before the break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Florida Panthers on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Thursday, February 5 &#8211; 7:30 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: Benchmark International Arena &#8211; Tampa, FL<br \/>TV Coverage: ESPN+\/Hulu<br \/>Pregame Coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tblightning.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TampaBayLightning<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tblightning.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">.com\/StreamNow<\/a><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 Sunday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Forwards<br \/>Brandon Hagel &#8211; Jake Guentzel &#8211; Nikita Kucherov<br \/>Oliver Bjorkstrand &#8211; Dominic James &#8211; Gage Goncalves<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211; Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg<br \/>Curtis Douglas &#8211; Jack Finley &#8211; Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen<br \/>JJ Moser &#8211; Darren Raddysh<br \/>Ryan McDonagh &#8211; Erik Cernak<br \/>Victor Hedman &#8211; Declan Carlile<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders<br \/>Andrei Vasilevskiy<br \/>Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s Matchup<br \/>The Lightning play their final game before the break and also close their 2025-26 season series against their in-state foe, the Florida Panthers, Thursday at Benchmark International Arena&#8230;The Lightning are 2-1-0 against Florida so far this season but are looking for their first win versus the Panthers on home ice&#8230;Nikita Kucherov (2-1\u20143) and Brayden Point (0-3\u20143) co-lead the Lightning in scoring against Florida through three games&#8230;Andrei Vasilevskiy is 2-0-0 in net with a .939 save percentage versus the Panthers this season, while goalie partner Jonas Johansson is 0-1-0 with a .792 save percentage versus Florida&#8230;Steven Stamkos is the franchise career scoring leader against Florida with 41-40\u201481 in 67 games. Kucherov (23-27\u201450) co-leads active Bolts alongside captain Victor Hedman (7-43\u201450)&#8230;Vasilevskiy is 19-15-1 with a .913 save percentage in his career when playing Florida, while Johansson is 1-1-0 with an .882 save percentage as a Bolt.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game<br \/>Stadium Series Player Tees<br \/>Jerseys and the full merchandise collection are available now, in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabaysports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TampaBaySports.com<\/a>, while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Wednesday, February 25 vs. Toronto Maple Leafs<br \/>Thursday, February 26 at Carolina Hurricanes<br \/>Saturday, February 28 vs. Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Florida Panthers on Thursday: When: Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-144202","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\/144202","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=144202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}