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Tampa Bay Lightning (18-11-2) at New York Islanders (18-11-3)
Venue: UBS Arena
Date: Saturday, December 13
Time: 3:30 pm EST
How To Watch: ESPN+, The Spot, MSGSN
Radio: 103.9 FM, 102.5 The Bone<\/p>\n
Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Lightning have won two in a row after an 8-4 win over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday. Tampa Bay is second in the NHL in penalty killing at 85.9 percent.<\/p>\n New York Islanders News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Islanders have won five of their last six games after a 5-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday. The Isles have the NHL\u2019s 5th-ranked penalty kill at 84.4 percent.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:<\/p>\n Hagel-Cirelli-Kucherov Moser-Raddysh Johansson Buy Tampa Bay Hockey Merchandise Below! New York Islanders Projected Lines<\/p>\n Heineman-Horvat-Shabanov Schaefer-Pulock Sorokin Get your Isles Hockey merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n Players To Watch:<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n Nikita Kucherov<\/a> leads the Lightning with 40 points. Brandon Hagel<\/a> is second on the team with 32 points.<\/p>\n New York Islanders<\/p>\n Emil Heineman<\/a> has ten goals on the season for the Isles. Mat Barzal<\/a> is second on the team with 24 points.<\/p>\n Injury Report:<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n D Ryan McDonagh<\/a> \u2013 IR New York Islanders<\/p>\n F Bo Horvat \u2013 IR Next Game:<\/p>\n \tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo By Dennis Schneidler-USA TODAY Sports Tampa Bay Lightning (18-11-2) at New York Islanders (18-11-3)Venue: UBS ArenaDate: Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4386,8832,45817,40336,5691,45818,16976,135,862,137,136],"class_list":["post-82570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hockey","tag-injury-report","tag-mat-barzal","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-nikita-kucherov","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\/82570","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=82570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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