Nashville Predators (34-30-9, in the Central Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (45-21-6, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Sunday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Lightning -202, Predators +166; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Nashville Predators in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has a 22-12-1 record in home games and a 45-21-6 record overall. The Lightning have gone 8-9-4 in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
Nashville is 34-30-9 overall and 14-15-6 in road games. The Predators have a 28-6-3 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
The matchup Sunday is the second time these teams play this season. The Lightning won 5-2 in the last matchup. Zemgus Girgensons led the Lightning with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nikita Kucherov has 40 goals and 81 assists for the Lightning. Jake Guentzel has seven goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ryan O’Reilly has 24 goals and 42 assists for the Predators. Steven Stamkos has scored six goals with two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 6-2-2, averaging 4.1 goals, 6.8 assists, 3.8 penalties and 10 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Predators: 6-3-1, averaging three goals, 4.6 assists, 3.8 penalties and 10.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lightning: Nikita Kucherov: day to day (illness), Max Crozier: out (abdomen), Nick Paul: day to day (illness), Dominic James: out (leg), Declan Carlile: out (undisclosed), Victor Hedman: out (illness).<\/p>\n
Predators: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Nashville Predators (34-30-9, in the Central Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (45-21-6, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-210854","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\/210854","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=210854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}