Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\nTampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay arrives in Winnipeg on the second half of a back-to-back after rallying from a two-goal third-period deficit for a thrilling\u00a04-3 overtime victory in Minnesota\u00a0on Saturday night. Due to the quick turnaround, head coach Jon Cooper opted against holding a morning skate ahead of the second stop on their four-game road trip. <\/p>\n
Starter Andrei Vasilevskiy is expected to return to the crease tonight after backup Dennis Hildeby turned aside 19 shots against the Wild. On the roster front, the\u00a0Tampa Bay Lightning\u00a0remain nearly at full strength, with forward Yanni Gourde (hip) serving as the club\u2019s lone injury absence. <\/p>\n
Defenseman Emil Lilleberg is projected to enter the lineup in place of Max Crozier, while forward Scott Sabourin is expected to be a healthy scratch. A victory tonight would sweep the two-game series against Winnipeg, following Tampa Bay\u2019s 6-4 win at home last month, and keep the Bolts firmly atop the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets News & Notes:<\/p>\n
Winnipeg enters Sunday\u2019s matchup with renewed momentum after snapping a nine-game skid with a historic 5-4 overtime comeback in Montreal and a dominant 6-2 rout of the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday. <\/p>\n
On the injury front, top-pairing defenseman Josh Morrissey practiced in a regular jersey on Saturday for the first time in a month, though head coach Scott Arniel confirmed he will not play tonight. Additionally, defenseman Elias Salomonsson has taken a leave of absence to attend to a personal matter, prompting the club to recall Henry Thrun from the AHL\u2019s Manitoba Moose on an emergency basis. Forward Nick Bjugstad (pectoral) and Vladislav Namestnikov (undisclosed) also remain sidelined, while Haydn Fleury is cleared to play after blocking a shot with his hand on Thursday. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Winnipeg Jets are celebrating their fifth annual Filipino Heritage Night at Canada Life Centre against a Lightning squad playing the second half of a back-to-back. A victory tonight would mark the Jets\u2019 first three-game winning streak of the 2026\u201327 season and give them a measure of revenge after falling 6-4 in Tampa late last month.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Guentzel \u2013 Point \u2013 Kucherov
Hagel \u2013 Cirelli \u2013 Goncalves
Mikheyev \u2013 Girgensons \u2013 Holmberg
Viel \u2013 Geekie \u2013 Sabourin<\/p>\n
McDonagh \u2013 Cernak
Carlson \u2013 D\u2019Astous
Hedman \u2013 Moser<\/p>\n
Vasilevskiy
Hildeby<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Vilardi
Perfetti \u2013 Yager \u2013 Mercer
Iafallo \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Bjorck
Koepke \u2013 Barron \u2013 Rosen<\/p>\n
Samberg \u2013 Pionk
Ferraro \u2013 DeMelo
Fleury \u2013 Bauer<\/p>\n
Skinner
Stevenson<\/p>\n
Players To Watch:<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel:\u00a0The top-line winger has been red-hot over the past 10 games (15 points) and fueled Saturday\u2019s comeback in his home state with two goals and an assist, bringing his season total to 10 goals and 18 points.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov:\u00a0Despite ongoing trade request headlines, the reigning MVP snapped a seven-game goal drought with Saturday\u2019s overtime power-play winner\u2014his 10th career OT goal\u2014and leads Tampa Bay with 22 points (5 goals, 17 assists) on the season.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n
Kyle Connor:\u00a0The star winger paces Winnipeg with 13 goals and 19 points through 17 games, and he has been instrumental in the team\u2019s offensive resurgence with four points over his last two outings.<\/p>\n
Dawson Mercer:\u00a0Since his arrival to Winnipeg, Mercer broke out against Vancouver with his first goal and a multi-point night for Winnipeg, giving him growing chemistry on the second line alongside Cole Perfetti and Brayden Yager.<\/p>\n
Next game<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Lightning \u2013 November 11 vs Buffalo Sabres
Winnipeg Jets \u2013 November 10 vs New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning (11-3-2) at Winnipeg Jets (6-8-3)Venue: Canada Life CentreDate: Tonight \u2013 Sunday, November 8Time: 6:00 pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[175111,175112,4386,16550,175045,5691,45818,16976,135,862,137,136,68115],"class_list":["post-451060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-27-nhl-season","tag-dawson-mercer","tag-hockey","tag-jake-guentzel","tag-kyle-connor","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-nikita-kucherov","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451060","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=451060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}