{"id":175498,"date":"2026-03-02T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/175498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:31:08","slug":"nuts-bolts-late-night-matchup-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/175498\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: Late night matchup in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Tuesday, March 3 &#8211; 9:30 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: Grand Casino Arena &#8211; Saint Paul, MN<br \/>TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot &#8211; Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)<br \/>Radio coverage:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboneonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/22073.live.streamtheworld.com\/LIGHTNING_RADIO_24_7.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><br \/>Stream:\u00a0<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><\/p>\n<p>Lines from Saturday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Forwards<br \/>Gage\u00a0Goncalves\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; Brayden Point\u00a0&#8211; Nikita Kucherov<br \/>Brandon Hagel &#8211; Anthony Cirelli &#8211; Jake Guentzel\u00a0<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211; Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg<br \/>Dominic James\u00a0 &#8211; Oliver Bjorkstrand\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen<br \/>JJ Moser &#8211; Darren Raddysh<br \/>Ryan McDonagh &#8211; Erik Cernak<br \/>Victor Hedman &#8211; Charle-Edouard D&#8217;Astous\/Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders<br \/>Andrei Vasilevskiy<br \/>Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s\u00a0Matchup<br \/>The Tampa Bay Lightning will visit Grand Casino Arena on Tuesday to open their two-game season series against the Minnesota Wild&#8230;It marks the first of two games between the clubs this month, as Minnesota will visit Benchmark International Arena on March 24&#8230;The Lightning went 0-2-0 against Minnesota last season and were led on offense by five different players with two points in two games&#8230; Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy started both games, posting an .838 save percentage against the Wild in 2024-25&#8230;Tampa Bay is 13-19-4 all-time against the Wild, a record that includes a 3-13-2 pace on the road&#8230;Nikita Kucherov is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader versus Minnesota, scoring 9-10\u201419 in 19 career games, and Victor Hedman is the next active Bolt, scoring 4-8\u201412 in 23 games&#8230;Vasilevskiy holds a career record of 6-6-2 against the Wild while posting a .914 save percentage, 2.50 goals against average and one shutout across 14 starts, while goalie partner Jonas Johansson has never started a game against Minnesota in his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game<br \/>Ventura Concepts Sport Collection<br \/>It&#8217;s time to get cozy with the latest loungewear drop from Concepts Sport! This latest women&#8217;s collection is blanket-soft, and you&#8217;ll be ready to cheer on the team in cozy comfort. \u00a0Available in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabaysports.com\/pages\/rapid-search-results?q=concepts+sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBaySports.com<\/a>, while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Thursday, March 5 at Winnipeg Jets<br \/>Saturday, March 7 at Toronto Maple Leafs<br \/>Sunday, March 8 at Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday: When: Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-175498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175498","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=175498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}