Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday:<\/p>\n
When: Thursday, March 12 – 7 p.m. ET Lines from Tuesday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Thursday’s Matchup<\/p>\n The Tampa Bay Lightning will host an Atlantic Division foe in the Detroit Red Wings this Thursday for the first time this season…The Lightning are 1-0-1 against Detroit this season after a pair of road games, outscoring Detroit 7-4…Darren Raddysh leads the Lightning in scoring against the Red Wings with 1-2\u20143 this season. Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy is 1-0-1 with a .926 save percentage…The Lightning are 41-37-7 all-time against Detroit, a record that includes a 24-15-3 pace on home ice… Nikita Kucherov is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader versus the Red Wings, scoring 21-33\u201454 in 41 games. The next active Bolt is Victor Hedman with 5-37\u201442 in 49 games…Vasilevskiy holds a 17-5-2 career record against Detroit with a .929 save percentage and one shutout, while Jonas Johansson is 0-1-1 with an .871 save percentage in two career starts against the team.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game The Road Ahead
Where: Benchmark International Arena – Tampa, FL
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 – Gage Goncalves
Brandon Hagel\u00a0– Anthony Cirelli – Nikita Kucherov\u00a0
Zemgus Girgensons\u00a0– \u00a0Yanni Gourde – \u00a0Pontus Holmberg\u00a0
Oliver\u00a0Bjorkstrand\u00a0– Conor Geekie – Corey Perry<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – Declan Carlile
Ryan McDonagh – Charle-Edouard D’Astous\u00a0
Victor Hedman – Steven Santini<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
Emerson & Friends Launch
Tonight’s latest Tampa Bay Sports collab is for the kids! \u00a0Check out the latest product drop and full Lightning by Emerson and Friends collection, available in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at TampaBaySports.com<\/a>, while supplies last.<\/p>\n
Saturday, March 14 vs. Carolina Hurricanes
Tuesday, March 17 at Seattle Kraken
Thursday, March 19 at Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday: When:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-187782","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\/187782","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=187782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}