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Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> (10-3-2, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild<\/a> (12-3-3, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n

Saint Paul, Minnesota; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

LINE: Lightning -137, Wild +113; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning visit the Minnesota Wild after Ilya Mikheyev’s<\/a> two-goal game against the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> in the Lightning’s 4-1 win.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 4-0-1 at home and 12-3-3 overall. The Wild have gone 6-0-2 in games they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 10-3-2 record overall and a 2-3-2 record in road games. The Lightning have a 5-2-0 record when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Lightning won 3-2 in the last matchup. John Carlson<\/a> led the Lightning with two goals.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> has 16 goals and 14 assists for the Wild. Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a> has five goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brandon Hagel<\/a> has eight goals and nine assists for the Lightning. Jake Guentzel<\/a> has five goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Wild: 7-1-2, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.5 assists, 3.3 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 1.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Lightning: 6-2-2, averaging four goals, 5.9 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Wild: Jared Spurgeon: out (lower body), Filip Gustavsson<\/a>: out (hip), Nick Foligno: out (upper body), Michael McCarron<\/a>: day to day (undisclosed), Marcus Foligno<\/a>: out (lower body), Brock Faber: out (skull).<\/p>\n

Lightning: 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 (10-3-2, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (12-3-3, in the Central Division) Saint Paul,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16557,70652,174862,174860,16550,174861,135149,82773,174864,174863,51706,53658,135,862,137,136],"class_list":["post-450206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-brandon-hagel","tag-event_preview","tag-filip-gustavsson","tag-ilya-mikheyev","tag-jake-guentzel","tag-joel-eriksson-ek","tag-john-carlson","tag-kirill-kaprizov","tag-marcus-foligno","tag-michael-mccarron","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450206","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=450206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}