Seattle Kraken (31-29-10, in the Pacific Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (44-21-5, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Kraken look to end a four-game skid with a win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has a 21-12-0 record at home and a 44-21-5 record overall. The Lightning are 38-7-1 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Seattle has a 14-15-5 record in road games and a 31-29-10 record overall. The Kraken have gone 29-7-4 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Lightning won 6-2 in the last matchup. Nikita Kucherov led the Lightning with three goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kucherov has 40 goals and 80 assists for the Lightning. Jake Guentzel has six goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Vince Dunn has 11 goals and 30 assists for the Kraken. Bobby McMann has scored five goals with two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 6-3-1, averaging 4.6 goals, 7.4 assists, 5.1 penalties and 14.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Kraken: 2-7-1, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.9 assists, 2.7 penalties and 6.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lightning: Max Crozier: out (abdomen), Dominic James: out (leg), Declan Carlile: out (undisclosed), Victor Hedman: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Kraken: Jaden Schwartz: out (face), Jared McCann: day to day (lower body), Ryan Winterton: out (illness).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken (31-29-10, in the Pacific Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (44-21-5, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa, Florida;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[94356,1111,2814,110,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-205511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-94356","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\/205511","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=205511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205511\/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=205511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}