Boston Bruins (43-25-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (47-22-6, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Saturday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning host the Boston Bruins after Anthony Cirelli’s hat trick against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Lightning’s 6-3 win.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is 13-6-1 against the Atlantic Division and 47-22-6 overall. The Lightning have gone 17-6-3 in games their opponents serve more penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
Boston has gone 43-25-8 overall with an 11-10-3 record in Atlantic Division play. The Bruins serve 12.4 penalty minutes per game to rank second in league play.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the third meeting between these teams this season. The Lightning won 6-5 in a shootout in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nikita Kucherov has scored 41 goals with 83 assists for the Lightning. Brandon Hagel has five goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
David Pastrnak has 29 goals and 66 assists for the Bruins. Pavel Zacha has scored nine goals with five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 7-1-2, averaging 4.3 goals, 7.1 assists, 5.2 penalties and 13 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Bruins: 6-2-2, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.8 penalties and 9.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lightning: Brandon Hagel: day to day (undisclosed), Max Crozier: out (abdomen), Dominic James: out (leg), Declan Carlile: out (undisclosed), Victor Hedman: out (illness), Scott Sabourin: day to day (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
Bruins: Mason Lohrei: day to day (upper-body).<\/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 Boston Bruins (43-25-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (47-22-6, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-217214","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\/217214","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=217214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}