Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday:<\/p>\n
When: Sunday, March 8 – 6 p.m. ET Lines from Saturday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Sunday’s Matchup The Road Ahead
Where: KeyBank Center – Buffalo, NY
TV Coverage:\u00a0The 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
Jake Guentzel – Brayden Point\u00a0– Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel\u00a0– Anthony Cirelli – Zemgus Girgensons
Oliver Bjorkstrand – Yanni Gourde – Pontus Holmberg
Corey Perry – Conor Geekie – Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh – Charle-Edouard D’Astous
Victor Hedman – Erik Cernak<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
The top teams in the Atlantic Division meet on Sunday when the Tampa Bay Lightning visit the Buffalo Sabres…Tampa Bay is 1-1-0 against Buffalo this season, winning a 4-3 game in overtime on Feb. 3 before a 6-2 loss on Feb. 28…Nikita Kucherov\u00a0leads Tampa Bay in scoring against the Sabres with 1-3\u20144, and\u00a0Darren Raddysh\u00a0has 1-2\u20143…Andrei Vasilevskiy\u00a0is 1-1-0 against the Sabres this year with an .800 save percentage, while\u00a0Jonas Johansson\u00a0made 20 saves on 21 shots for a .952 SV%…Tampa Bay holds a 54-51-17 all-time record against the Sabres, including a 27-25-7 record on the road…Kucherov is the franchise scoring leader versus Buffalo with 20-32\u201452 in 41 games, the next active Bolt being\u00a0Victor Hedman\u00a0(9-23\u201432 in 59 GP)…Vasilevskiy is 14-3-3 with a .905 save percentage in his career against the Sabres with a pair of shutouts, while Johansson is 2-0-2 with a .923 save percentage versus Buffalo, the team that drafted him in the htird round of the 2014 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, March 10 vs. Columbus Blue Jackets
Thursday, March 12 vs. Detroit Red Wings
Saturday, March 14 vs. Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday: When: Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-182815","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\/182815","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=182815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}