Columbus Blue Jackets (32-21-10, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (39-19-4, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Lightning -247, Blue Jackets +201; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning host the Columbus Blue Jackets after Nikita Kucherov’s two-goal game against the Buffalo Sabres in the Lightning’s 8-7 loss.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay has a 39-19-4 record overall and a 19-10-0 record in home games. The Lightning rank sixth in NHL play with 219 total goals (averaging 3.5 per game).<\/p>\n Columbus is 32-21-10 overall and 15-13-3 in road games. The Blue Jackets have a -3 scoring differential, with 199 total goals scored and 202 conceded.<\/p>\n Tuesday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season. The Blue Jackets won the last meeting 8-5. Mason Marchment scored three goals in the win.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kucherov has 34 goals and 69 assists for the Lightning. Brayden Point has six goals and eight assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Zachary Werenski has 20 goals and 46 assists for the Blue Jackets. Mathieu Olivier has scored six goals and added one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 5-5-0, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.9 assists, 6.8 penalties and 23 penalty minutes while giving up 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n Blue Jackets: 6-1-3, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.1 assists, 3.3 penalties and 8.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Lightning: None listed.<\/p>\n Blue Jackets: 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":"Columbus Blue Jackets (32-21-10, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (39-19-4, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[87207,1111,2814,110,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-185374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-87207","tag-article","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185374","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=185374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}