Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday:<\/p>\n
When: Thursday, February 26 – 7 p.m. ET Lines from Wednesday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Thursday’s Matchup Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game The Road Ahead
Where: Lenovo Center – Raleigh, NC
TV Coverage: The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)
Radio coverage:\u00a0102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a>
Stream:\u00a0TampaBayLightning<\/a>.com\/StreamNow<\/a><\/p>\n
Forwards
Brandon Hagel – Brayden Point\u00a0– Nikita Kucherov
Jake Guentzel\u00a0– Dominic James – Gage Goncalves
Zemgus Girgensons – Yanni Gourde – Pontus Holmberg
Oliver Bjorkstrand – Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Victor Hedman – Charle-Edouard D’Astous
Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
The Tampa Bay Lightning will take their lone visit to play the Carolina Hurricanes at the Lenovo Center on Thursday…The game is the first matchup since a 6-4 Lightning win on Dec. 20 in Tampa that saw four Bolts score multiple points, including 2-0\u20142 from Jake Guentzel…Tampa Bay will close the season series on March 14 at home…The Lightning are 74-53-21 all-time against the Hurricanes, a record that includes a 29-31-15 pace on the road…Martin St. Louis is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader versus Carolina with a line of 38-48\u201486 in 75 games…Nikita Kucherov leads active Bolts in scoring with 12-29\u201441 in 30 career games against Carolina…Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 18 saves in the first matchup this season between the teams for a win and is 16-6-3 with a .925 save percentage and two shutouts over his career versus the Hurricanes…Jonas Johansson is 1-1-0 with a .938 save percentage and one shutout as a Bolt against the Hurricanes, his lone career starts against the team.<\/p>\n
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Pick up your Darren Raddysh Bald Eagle tee and plush eagle today! \u00a0Proceeds of retail sales for all Raddysh Bald Eagle merch will benefit Moffitt Cancer Center. Available now in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at TampaBaySports.com<\/a>, while supplies last.<\/p>\n
Saturday, February 28 vs. Buffalo Sabres
Tuesday, March 3 at Minnesota Wild
Thursday, March 5 at Winnipeg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday: When: Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-169601","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\/169601","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=169601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}