{"id":206032,"date":"2026-03-25T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206032\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:47:07","slug":"nuts-bolts-a-rematch-vs-the-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206032\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: A rematch vs. the Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Seattle Kraken on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Thursday, March 26 &#8211; 7 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: Benchmark International Arena &#8211; Tampa, FL<br \/>TV Coverage:\u00a0The 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><\/p>\n<p>Lines from Tuesday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Forwards<br \/>Gage Goncalves &#8211; Brayden Point-\u00a0 Jake Guentzel<br \/>Brandon Hagel\u00a0&#8211; Anthony Cirelli\u00a0&#8211; Nikita Kucherov\u00a0<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg\u00a0<br \/>Corey Perry &#8211; Nick Paul &#8211; Scott Sabourin<\/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 \/>Andrei Vasilevskiy<br \/>Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s Matchup<br \/>The Seattle Kraken will visit the Tampa Bay Lightning at Benchmark International Arena for a 7 p.m. puck drop on Thursday as the Bolts continue their homestand&#8230;The Lightning are 1-0-0 against Seattle in 2025-26 behind their 6-2 victory in Seattle earlier this month&#8230;Nikita Kucherov led all players with his 3-2\u20145 performance, while Brandon Hagel had 1-3\u20144 and Anthony Cirelli scored 1-2\u20143&#8230;Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 16 saves in the win&#8230;Tampa Bay is 8-0-1 all-time against Seattle and boast a 3-0-1 record on home ice&#8230;Kucherov is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader versus the Kraken, scoring 7-9\u201416 in eight games, followed by Hagel\u2019s 6-9\u201415 across seven games&#8230;Vasilevskiy holds a 7-0-0 record against Seattle all-time with a .947 save percentage, 1.42 goals against average and a shutout&#8230; Jonas Johansson is 1-0-1 with a .923 save percentage and 2.45 goals against average.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game<br \/>Pride Night Collection<br \/>Show your Lightning Pride with the Pride Collection from the Tampa Bay Lightning. \u00a0Check out the entire collection, available in store at Benchmark International Arena and online at <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabaysports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBaySports.com,<\/a> while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Saturday, March 28 vs. Ottawa Senators<br \/>Sunday, March 29 vs. Nashville Predators<br \/>Tuesday, March 31 vs. Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Seattle Kraken on Thursday: When: Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-206032","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\/206032","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=206032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}