Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday:<\/p>\n
When: Tuesday, March 31 – 7 p.m. ET Lines from Sunday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Tuesday’s Matchup<\/p>\n The Lightning will host the Montreal Canadiens for the final time this season on Tuesday…Tampa Bay is 2-0-0 against the Canadiens in 2025-26 with a pair of December victories…Nikita Kucherov leads the Lightning with 3-1\u20144 in two games against Montreal this year, while Brayden Point (1-2\u20143) and Oliver Bjorkstrand (0-3\u20143) each have three points…Jonas Johansson started both games for Tampa Bay, going 2-0-0 with a .919 save percentage…Tampa Bay is 63-41-17 all-time against the Canadiens, including 32-16-13 on home ice…Victor Hedman is the franchise scoring leader versus Montreal with 10-41\u201451 in 52 games, while Kucherov ranks third with 20-28\u201448 in 40 career matchups against the Canadiens…Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy is 16-3-2 when playing Montreal over his NHL career, posting a .931 save percentage and 2.08 goals against average with a pair of shutouts…Johansson is 3-1-0 as a Bolt against the team with a .906 save percentage and is 4-2-0 with an .875 save percentage across his entire career when playing Montreal.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game The Road Ahead
Where:\u00a0Benchmark International Arena – Tampa, FL
TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)
Radio coverage:\u00a0102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><\/p>\n
Forwards
Corey Perry – Brayden Point-\u00a0 Jake Guentzel
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Gage Goncalves\u00a0
Zemgus Girgensons –\u00a0Yanni Gourde – Pontus Holmberg
Oliver Bjorkstrand – Nick Paul – Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh\u00a0
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Charle-Edouard D’Astous\u00a0 – Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Jonas Johansson
Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n
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Thursday, April 2 vs. Pittsburgh Penguins
Saturday, April 4 vs. Boston Bruins
Monday, April 6 at Buffalo\u00a0Sabres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday: When: Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-212246","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\/212246","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=212246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}