Florida Panthers (29-24-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (36-14-4, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Lightning -195, Panthers +161; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Florida Panthers visit the Tampa Bay Lightning after the Lightning knocked off the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 in overtime.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay is 36-14-4 overall with an 8-3-1 record in Atlantic Division play. The Lightning have gone 13-4-2 in games their opponents commit more penalties.<\/p>\n Florida is 6-8-1 against the Atlantic Division and 29-24-3 overall. The Panthers have committed 271 total penalties (4.8 per game) to rank second in the league.<\/p>\n Thursday’s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season. The Lightning won 4-2 in the previous meeting. Nikita Kucherov led the Lightning with two goals.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Guentzel has 25 goals and 34 assists for the Lightning. Kucherov has six goals and 17 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Carter Verhaeghe has 16 goals and 26 assists for the Panthers. Uvis Balinskis has three goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 8-1-1, averaging 3.2 goals, 6.1 assists, 3.9 penalties and 10.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n Panthers: 5-5-0, averaging 3.1 goals, 4.9 assists, 5.7 penalties and 12.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Lightning: None listed.<\/p>\n Panthers: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers (29-24-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (36-14-4, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa, Florida;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[70147,1111,2814,110,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-144878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-70147","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144878","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=144878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}