{"id":202988,"date":"2026-03-23T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:35:08","slug":"nuts-bolts-season-long-homestand-opens-against-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202988\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: Season-long homestand opens against the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Sunday, March 24 &#8211; 7:30 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: Benchmark International Arena &#8211; Tampa, FL<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 Sunday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Forwards<br \/>Brandon Hagel\u00a0&#8211; Anthony Cirelli\u00a0&#8211; Nikita Kucherov\u00a0<br \/>Gage Goncalves &#8211; Brayden Point-\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 \/>JJ Moser &#8211; Darren Raddysh\u00a0<br \/>Ryan McDonagh &#8211; Erik Cernak<br \/>Charle-Edouard D&#8217;Astous\u00a0 &#8211; Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders<br \/>Jonas Johansson<br \/>Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s\u00a0Matchup<br \/>The Tampa Bay Lightning will put a bow on their 2025-26 season series against the Minnesota Wild when the latter visits Benchmark International Arena on Tuesday&#8230;The Wild took the first game of the season series by a 5-1 score, a game that saw Nikita Kucherov score the lone Lightning goal&#8230;Tampa Bay is 13-20-4 all-time against Minnesota, a record that includes a 10-6-2 pace on home ice&#8230;Kucherov is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader versus the Wild, scoring 10-10\u201420 in 20 career games against the team&#8230;Steven Stamkos ranks second with 6-9\u201415 in 23 games, while Victor Hedman is the next active Bolt with 4-8\u201412 in 24 games&#8230;Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy is 6-7-2 over his NHL career against Minnesota along with a .909 save percentage, 2.60 goals against average and one shutout&#8230;.Lightning goalie Jonas Johansson is looking for his first start against the Wild over his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Thursday, March 26 vs. Seattle Kraken<br \/>Saturday, March 28 vs. Ottawa Senators<br \/>Sunday, March 29 vs. Nashville Predators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday: When: Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-202988","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\/202988","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=202988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}