New York Rangers (8-7-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (8-5-2, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers visit the Tampa Bay Lightning after Artemi Panarin scored two goals in the Rangers’ 6-3 win against the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has an 8-5-2 record overall and a 4-3-0 record on its home ice. The Lightning have a 6-2-0 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
New York has an 8-7-2 record overall and a 7-1-1 record in road games. The Rangers have a 7-0-1 record in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Wednesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Hagel has scored seven goals with seven assists for the Lightning. Jake Guentzel has five goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad has five goals and four assists for the Rangers. Taylor Raddysh has scored four goals and added one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 7-3-0, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.2 assists, 4.2 penalties and 10.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Rangers: 5-4-1, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.3 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lightning: None listed.<\/p>\n
Rangers: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers (8-7-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (8-5-2, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27949,1111,2814,110,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-42270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-27949","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270","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=42270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}