Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Vancouver Canucks\u00a0on Saturday:<\/p>\n
When: Thursday, October 17 – 4 p.m. ET Lines from Thursday’s game (subject to change) Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli\u00a0– Nikita Kucherov 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 3:30 p.m. ET
Radio coverage: 102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>, Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a>
Stream:\u00a0TampaBayLightning.com\/StreamNow<\/a><\/p>\n
Forwards<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel -Brayden Point – Conor Geekie
Ilya Mikheyev – Zemgus Girgensons – Pontus\u00a0Holmberg \u00a0
Jeff Viel – Dominic James<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – John Carlson
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Victor Hedman – Max Crozier
Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Dennis Hildeby<\/p>\n
The Tampa Bay Lightning face the Vancouver Canucks for the first time this season in a 4 p.m. matchup Saturday at Benchmark International Arena…The Lightning are 23-19-5 all-time against the Canucks, a record that includes a 13-9-2 record on home ice…Tampa Bay went 1-1-0 against Vancouver a season ago, suffering a 6-2 loss on Nov. 16 before responding with a 6-2 win in March…Nikita Kucherov led the Lightning in scoring against Vancouver last season with 2-2\u20144 while Brandon Hagel, Anthony Cirelli and Erik Cernak all added three points…Andrei Vasilevskiy went 1-0-0 against the Canucks last season with a .905 save percentage, and Jonas Johansson was 0-1-0 with a .706 save percentage…Kucherov has scored 13-15\u201428 in 21 career games against Vancouver, tied with Steven Stamkos (16-12\u201428 in 20 GP) for the franchise lead. Brayden Point is next with 8-12\u201420 in 17 games…Vasilevskiy is 11-3-0 with a .923 save percentage against Vancouver over his NHL career, and fellow netminder Dennis Hildeby stopped 16 of 18 shots faced for an .889 save percentage in his lone career start against the Canucks on Jan. 11, 2025 as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
Hello Kitty Collection
It’s Hello Kitty night at Tampa Bay Sports! \u00a0Tonight we launch the latest collaboration, Tampa Bay Lightning by Hello Kitty. \u00a0Check out the full collection now, available in store at Benchmark International Arena and online at TampaBaySports.com<\/a>, while supplies last.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tuesday, October 20 at Vegas Golden Knights
Friday, October 23 at Colorado Avalanche
Saturday, October 24 at Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Vancouver Canucks\u00a0on Saturday: When: Thursday, October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-429876","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\/429876","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=429876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}