{"id":190563,"date":"2026-03-13T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190563\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:21:08","slug":"nuts-bolts-homestand-ends-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190563\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts & Bolts: Homestand ends on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday:<\/p>\n

When: Saturday, March 14 – 7 p.m. ET
Where: Benchmark International Arena – Tampa, FL
TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)TampaBaySports.com<\/a>
Radio coverage:\u00a0102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a>
Stream:\u00a0TampaBayLightning<\/a>.com\/StreamNow<\/a><\/p>\n

Lines from Thursday’s game (subject to change)
Forwards
Gage Goncalves – Brayden Point – Nikita Kucherov\u00a0
Brandon Hagel\u00a0– Anthony Cirelli –\u00a0 Jake Guentzel
Oliver\u00a0Bjorkstrand – \u00a0Yanni Gourde – Pontus Holmberg\u00a0
Corey Perry –\u00a0Zemgus Girgensons\u00a0– Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n

Defensemen
Victor Hedman – JJ Moser\u00a0
Ryan McDonagh – Darren Raddysh\u00a0
Charle-Edouard D’Astous – Declan Carlile<\/p>\n

Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n

Saturday’s Matchup
The Tampa Bay Lightning will close their 2025-26 season series against the Carolina Hurricanes this Saturday at Benchmark International Arena…The Lightning are 1-1-0 versus the Hurricanes in 2025-26 and have been led by Jake Guentzel (2-3\u20145) in those games…Tampa Bay holds a 74- 54-21 all-time record versus Carolina, which includes a 45-22-6 record on home ice…Martin St. Louis is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader against the Hurricanes with 38-48\u201486 in 75 games, and Nikita Kucherov paces active Bolts with 13-29\u201442 in 31 career games. Brayden Point is the next current Bolt with 18-15\u201433 in 32 games…Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy is 1-0-0 with an .818 save percentage against Carolina this season, while Jonas Johansson is 0-1-0 with an .848 save percentage…Vasilevskiy carries a 16-6-3 career record against the Hurricanes and .925 save percentage into Saturday\u2019s matchup, while Johansson is 1-2-0 with a .907 save percentage as a Bolt, his lone career starts against the franchise over his NHL career.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game
Levelwear St Patrick’s Day
Levelwear’s back with more gear to stock up for St Patrick’s Day! \u00a0Shop the full St. Patrick’s Day collection, available in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at TampaBaySports.com,<\/a> while supplies last.<\/p>\n

The Road Ahead
Tuesday, March 17 at Seattle Kraken
Thursday, March 19 at Vancouver\u00a0Canucks
Saturday, March 21 at Edmonton Oilers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday: When: Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-190563","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\/190563","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=190563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}