{"id":216052,"date":"2026-04-02T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216052\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:42:26","slug":"game-preview-04-02-26-at-tampa-bay-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216052\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: 04.02.26 at Tampa Bay Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Notes<\/p>\n<p>QUICK HITS<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Mantha\u00a0has 21 points (8G-13A) in 30 career games against the Lightning and is a plus-11. His 21 points are the most he\u2019s accumulated versus one opponent.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday,\u00a0Rickard Rakell\u00a0hit the 20-goal plateau for the seventh time in his career. In doing so, he became the 15th Swedish-born player in NHL history with seven or more 20-goal campaigns and joined\u00a0Mika Zibanejad\u00a0(11),\u00a0Filip Forsberg\u00a0(10) and\u00a0Gabriel Landeskog\u00a0(9) as the only active Swedes to accomplish this feat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender\u00a0Arturs Silovs\u00a0is winless (0-1-1) in two starts versus Tampa Bay but has only allowed four goals total with a 1.95 goals-against average and a .930 save percentage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman\u00a0Kris Letang\u00a0has four points (4A) over his last five games. His assist on Tuesday was the 625th of his career, surpassing\u00a0Bobby Orr\u00a0(BOS &#8211; 624) for the seventh-most assists by a defenseman with one franchise in NHL history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Egor Chinakhov\u00a0has 14 points (5G-9A) over his last 14 games and has picked up 28 points (15G-13A) in 37 games since joining the Penguins. Since his Penguins debut on Jan. 1, only\u00a0Rickard Rakell\u00a0(16) has more goals on the team than him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes QUICK HITS Anthony Mantha\u00a0has 21 points (8G-13A) in 30 career games against the Lightning and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-216052","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\/216052","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=216052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}