{"id":432388,"date":"2026-10-19T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432388\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:01:08","slug":"nuts-bolts-late-night-puck-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432388\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts & Bolts: Late night puck drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday:<\/p>\n

When: Tuesday, October 20 – 10:30 p.m. ET
Where: T-Mobile Arena – Las Vegas, NV
TV coverage:\u00a0ESPN
Pregame Coverage:\u00a0TampaBayLightning.com\/StreamNow<\/a>
Coverage begins at 10 p.m. ET
Radio coverage: 102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>, Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><\/p>\n

Lines from Saturday’s game (subject to change)
Forwards<\/p>\n

Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli\u00a0– Nikita Kucherov
Gage Goncalves -Brayden Point – \u00a0Jake Guentzel\u00a0
Ilya Mikheyev – Zemgus Girgensons – Pontus\u00a0Holmberg \u00a0
Dominic James – Conor Geekie<\/p>\n

Defensemen
JJ Moser – John Carlson
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Victor Hedman – Emil Lilleberg
Charle-Eduord D’Astous<\/p>\n

Goaltenders
Dennis Hildeby
Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s Matchup
The Tampa Bay Lightning open a three-game Western Conference road trip with Tuesday\u2019s 10:30 p.m. ET matchup against the Vegas Golden Knights…Tampa Bay will also play Vegas in Tampa on Jan. 14…The Lightning are 8-5-3 all-time against the Golden Knights, including 4-4-0 on the road…Nikita Kucherov is the team\u2019s career scoring leader against Vegas with 9-17\u201426 in 14 games, while captain Victor Hedman has 1-14\u201415 in 14 games against the Golden Knights…Andrei Vasilevskiy is 8-5-3 with an .897 save percentage in his career against Vegas, and Dennis Hildeby awaits his first career action against the Golden Knights…The Lightning went 2-0-0 last season when playing the Golden Knights, taking a 2-1 win in overtime on Oct. 26 before winning a Nov. 6 road game 6-3…Brandon Hagel paced Tampa Bay on offense in the season series, scoring 3-2\u20145. Kucherov added 3-1\u20144, and Dominic James posted 1-2\u20143 for the Lightning…Vasilevskiy started both games against Vegas a season ago, going 2-0-0 with a .922 save percentage.<\/p>\n

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Check out the latest collection from Headwear! \u00a0Available in store at Benchmark International Arena and online at TampaBaySports.com<\/a>, while supplies last.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Road Ahead
Friday, October 23 at Colorado Avalanche
Saturday, October 24 at Utah Mammoth
Thursday, October 29 vs. Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday: When:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-432388","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\/432388","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=432388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}