{"id":219923,"date":"2026-04-05T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219923\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:25:08","slug":"nuts-bolts-final-regular-season-road-trip-opens-with-a-big-one-in-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219923\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: Final regular season road trip opens with a big one in Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Buffalo Sabres on Monday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Monday, April 6 &#8211; 7 p.m. ET<br \/>Where: KeyBank Center &#8211; Buffalo, NY<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 Saturday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Forwards<br \/>Jake Guentzel &#8211; Brayden Point\u00a0&#8211; Nikita Kucherov<br \/>Oliver Bjorkstrand &#8211; Anthony Cirelli &#8211; \u00a0Gage Goncalves<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211;\u00a0Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg<br \/>Corey Perry &#8211; Nick Paul &#8211; Mitchell Chaffee<\/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>Monday&#8217;s Matchup<br \/>The Tampa Bay Lightning wrap up the regular season series against the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday in\u00a0a 7 p.m. clash of the top teams in the Atlantic Division at KeyBank Center&#8230; Tampa Bay is 1-2-0 against the Sabres this season with a 4-3 overtime win on Feb. 3 and a pair of regulation losses on Feb. 28 and\u00a0March 8&#8230;Nikita Kucherov has scored 3-4\u20147 against Buffalo in three games this season, and Darren\u00a0Raddysh has added 1-5\u20146&#8230;Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy is 1-1-0 against the Sabres with an .800 save\u00a0percentage this season, and Jonas Johansson is 0-1-0 with an .857 save percentage&#8230;The Lightning\u00a0hold a 54-52-17 record all-time versus Buffalo, a record that includes a 27-26-7 pace on the road&#8230; Kucherov is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader against the Sabres with 22-33\u201455 in 42 games, and\u00a0Victor Hedman is the next active Bolt with 9-23\u201432 across 60 career matchups&#8230;Vasilevskiy carries a\u00a014-3-3 record against the team over his NHL career with a .905 save percentage, while Johansson is\u00a01-2-0 with an .897 save percentage against Buffalo with the Lightning and 2-1-2 across his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game<br \/>New Women&#8217;s Tees<br \/>New styles for the ladies dropping now! Check out the latest styles of women&#8217;s tees, available today, in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at TampaBaySports.com, while supplies last.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Tuesday, April 7 at Ottawa Senators<br \/>Thursday, April 9 at Montreal Canadiens<br \/>Saturday, April 11 at Boston Bruins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Buffalo Sabres on Monday: When: Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-219923","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\/219923","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=219923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}