{"id":442434,"date":"2026-10-30T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442434\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:20:19","slug":"nashville-takes-on-tampa-bay-following-forsbergs-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442434\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville takes on Tampa Bay following Forsberg’s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> (8-3-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Nashville Predators<\/a> (4-4-5, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n

Nashville, Tennessee; Saturday, 2 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Nashville Predators host the Tampa Bay Lightning after Filip Forsberg<\/a> scored two goals in the Predators’ 4-3 loss to the Washington Capitals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nashville has a 3-2-2 record at home and a 4-4-5 record overall. The Predators have a 1-0-2 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 2-3-1 in road games and 8-3-1 overall. The Lightning have a +six scoring differential, with 44 total goals scored and 38 given up.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Steven Stamkos<\/a> has seven goals and eight assists for the Predators. Ryan O’Reilly<\/a> has seven goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nikita Kucherov<\/a> has four goals and 11 assists for the Lightning. Brandon Hagel<\/a> has eight goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Predators: 3-3-4, averaging three goals, 5.3 assists, 3.7 penalties and eight penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Lightning: 7-2-1, averaging four goals, 5.8 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Predators: William Trudeau<\/a>: out (upper body).<\/p>\n

Lightning: Zemgus Girgensons: day to day (lower-body), Yanni Gourde: out (hip).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning (8-3-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Nashville Predators (4-4-5, in the Central Division) Nashville, Tennessee;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16557,70652,172536,5690,53658,16976,96450,96451,135,862,137,136,172537],"class_list":["post-442434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-brandon-hagel","tag-event_preview","tag-filip-forsberg","tag-nashville-predators","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nikita-kucherov","tag-ryan-oreilly","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-william-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442434","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=442434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}