{"id":417993,"date":"2026-10-03T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:59:00","slug":"lightning-host-washington-in-their-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417993\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning host Washington in their home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Capitals (1-0, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (0-1, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n<p>Tampa; Saturday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Lightning -164, Capitals +134; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals visit the Tampa Bay Lightning after Alex Tuch scored two goals in the Capitals\u2019 5-2 win against the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay had a 50-26-6 record overall and a 27-16-2 record at home last season. The Lightning committed 424 total penalties last season, averaging 5.2 per game and serving 14.6 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had a 43-30-9 record overall and an 18-19-4 record on the road last season. The Capitals committed 3.9 penalties per game and served 9.4 penalty minutes per game last season.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES<\/p>\n<p>Lightning: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals (1-0, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (0-1, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa; Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28,5691,76046,110,135,862,137,136],"class_list":["post-417993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida","tag-nhl","tag-social-sports","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417993","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=417993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}