{"id":174878,"date":"2026-03-02T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174878\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:09:40","slug":"minnesota-faces-tampa-bay-in-a-non-conference-matchup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174878\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota faces Tampa Bay in a non-conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Lightning (38-16-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (35-16-10, in the Central Division) Saint Paul, Minnesota; Tuesday,\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning (38-16-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (35-16-10, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n<p>Saint Paul, Minnesota; Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Wild and the Tampa Bay Lightning meet in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has a 17-7-7 record in home games and a 35-16-10 record overall. The Wild rank eighth in the league with 200 total goals (averaging 3.3 per game).<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay is 19-6-4 on the road and 38-16-4 overall. The Lightning rank fourth in league play with 205 total goals (averaging 3.5 per game).<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Kirill Kaprizov has 34 goals and 40 assists for the Wild. Matthew Boldy has eight goals and 11 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Guentzel has 26 goals and 37 assists for the Lightning. Nikita Kucherov has seven goals and 15 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Wild: 7-2-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.8 assists, 3.3 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning: 7-3-0, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.7 assists, 5.6 penalties and 17.8 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Wild: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning (38-16-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (35-16-10, in the Central Division) Saint Paul,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-174878","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\/174878","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=174878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}