Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Minnesota Wild on Thursday:<\/p>\n
When: Thursday, October 8 – 7 p.m. ET Lines from Monday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Thursday’s Matchup Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game The Road Ahead
Where: Benchmark International Arena – Tampa, FL
TV coverage: The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings); Pregame show begins at 6:30 p.m. ET
Radio coverage: 102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>, Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a>
Stream: TampaBayLightning<\/a>.com\/StreamNow<\/a><\/p>\n
Forwards
Gage Goncalves -Brayden Point- Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli\u00a0– Jake\u00a0Guentzel
Ilya Mikheyev – Zemgus Girgensons – Pontus\u00a0Holmberg \u00a0
Jeff Viel – Conor Geekie<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – John Carlson
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Victor Hedman – Max Crozier
Charle-Edouard D’Astous<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Dennis Hildeby<\/p>\n
The Lightning close their three-game homestand on Thursday with a 7 p.m. matchup against the Minnesota Wild…This is the first of two meetings between the teams this season, as Tampa Bay will also visit the Wild on Nov. 7…The Lightning are 14-20-4 all-time against Minnesota and 11-6-2 on home ice…Tampa Bay went 1-1-0 against the Wild in 2025-26, falling 5-1 on March 3 on the road before taking a 6-3 home win on March 24…Jake Guentzel (1-2\u20143) and Darren Raddysh (1-2\u20143) led the Lightning in scoring against the Wild last season, and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy was 1-1-0 with an .844 save percentage…Nikita Kucherov is the team\u2019s all-time scoring leader versus the Wild behind 10-11\u201421 in 21 games, while Jake Guentzel (7-8\u201415 in 11 GP) has the second-most points among active Bolts…Vasilevskiy carries a 7-7-2 career record in his NHL career against the Wild with a .907 save percentage and one shutout…Dennis Hildeby has never started a game versus the Wild but stopped all nine shots he faced in one relief appearance with the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
Ice Palace 30th Anniversary Puck and Tee
The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate the 30th Anniversary of their home arena, the Ice Palace, and you can commemorate the celebration with a 30th Anniversary collectors puck and tee. \u00a0Available in store at Benchmark International Arena and online at TampaBaySports.com<\/a>, while supplies last.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday, October 10 at New York Islanders
Tuesday, October 13 at New York Rangers
Thursday, October 15 vs. Seattle Kraken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Minnesota Wild on Thursday: When: Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-424069","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\/424069","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=424069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}