{"id":193904,"date":"2026-03-16T19:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:47:33","slug":"nuts-bolts-late-night-trip-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193904\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: Late night trip to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Tuesday, March 17 &#8211; 10 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: Climate Pledge Arena &#8211; Seattle, WA<br \/>TV Coverage: The 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:\/\/playerservices.streamtheworld.com\/api\/livestream-redirect\/LIGHTNING_RADIO_24_7.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><br \/>Stream:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tblightning.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBayLightning<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tblightning.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">.com\/StreamNow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lines from Saturday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Forwards<br \/>Gage Goncalves &#8211; Brayden Point &#8211; Nikita Kucherov\u00a0<br \/>Brandon Hagel\u00a0&#8211; Anthony Cirelli &#8211;\u00a0 Jake Guentzel<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg\u00a0<br \/>Corey Perry &#8211; Nick Paul\u00a0&#8211; Oliver\u00a0Bjorkstrand<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen<br \/>Victor Hedman &#8211; JJ Moser\u00a0<br \/>Ryan McDonagh &#8211; Erik Cernak<br \/>Charle-Edouard D&#8217;Astous &#8211; Darren Raddysh\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders<br \/>Andrei Vasilevskiy<br \/>Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s Matchup<br \/>The Tampa Bay Lightning will open their two-game season series against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday with a trip to Climate Pledge Arena&#8230;The Lightning will also host Seattle at home on March 26&#8230;The Lightning went 2-0-0 against the Kraken last season, winning 5-1 on Dec. 14 and then taking a 4-1 win on Feb. 23&#8230; Brandon Hagel led the team in scoring against the Kraken in 2024-25 with 3-1\u20144, while Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point each posted stat lines of 1-2\u20143&#8230; Tampa Bay is 7-0-1 against the Kraken all-time, a record that includes a 4-0-0 pace at Climate Pledge Arena&#8230;Hagel has scored 5-6\u201411 in six games against Seattle as one of the team\u2019s career scoring leaders versus the team, joined by Kucherov\u2019s 4-7\u201411 in seven games&#8230;Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy went 1-0-0 with a .973 save percentage against the Kraken last season, and Jonas Johansson was also 1-0-0 while posting a .955 save percentage&#8230;Vasilevskiy holds a 6-0-0 career record against Seattle while posting a .953 save percentage, and Johansson is 1-0-1 with a .923 save percentage, with both starts coming as a Bolt.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game<br \/>Emerson &amp; Friends Collection\u00a0<br \/>Gear up your littliest Bolts fans with the latest collab from Tampa Bay Sports, Emerson and Friends. \u00a0Check out the full collection, available in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabaysports.com\/collections\/lightning-emerson-and-friends?utm_campaign=Emerson_And_Friends&amp;utm_medium=Web&amp;utm_source=Nuts_And_Bolts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBaySports.com,<\/a> while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Thursday, March 19 at Vancouver\u00a0Canucks<br \/>Saturday, March 21 at Edmonton Oilers<br \/>Sunday, March 22 at Calgary Flames<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday: When: Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-193904","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\/193904","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=193904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}