{"id":399791,"date":"2026-09-14T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399791\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:02:09","slug":"lightning-to-kick-off-2026-27-season-with-lightning-launch-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399791\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning to kick off 2026-27 season with Lightning Launch Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning are bringing the excitement of a new season to fans across the Tampa Bay region with\u00a0Lightning Launch Week, a week-long celebration taking place from Sunday, September 27 through Saturday, October 3 ahead of the team&#8217;s 2026-27 home opener versus the Washington Capitals at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n<p>From a vintage market celebrating Lightning history and culture to scavenger hunts, trivia and the inaugural Blue Cup Day, the week will feature events across Tampa Bay and give Bolts Nation a number of opportunities to celebrate the return of hockey season.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the events listed below, the Lightning, in partnership with Benchmark International, will be making a major community contribution on October 1. More details will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY &#8211; The Tampa Bay Lightning are bringing the excitement of a new season to fans across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-399791","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\/399791","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=399791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}