Lightning Host The Stars & Will Honor Nikita Kucherov
On today’s Daily Strike, the Lightning are looking for their fourth straight win as they host the Stars in honor Nikita Cooer. This is the latest news and notes on the Tampa Bay Lightning for Thursday, October 30th, 2025. I’m Steve Ursnik. The Lighting had the day off on Wednesday after their 5-2 win in Nashville on Tuesday night. They welcomed the Stars to town for the first of two meetings this season. Last year, the Bolts went 1-1 verse Dallas. The Lightning have won the last three games which began at the time Zimus Gurgensson’s returned to the lineup. He talked about missing that time. No. Yeah. anytime you’re out uh you’re missing it, you want to be there uh with the boys, whatever it’s uh losing or winning, you want to be out there, you know, and helping. And uh it’s just uh been nice that uh we got back and we’ve been winning, so it’s been a little bit nicer. The Lightning will be looking to get out to a fast start tonight. They’ve scored 11 goals in the first period this season, tied for the third most in the NHL. Charl Edward Dstw scored his first goal on Tuesday night. He became the 17th player in franchise history to have his first NHL goal be a gamewinner. The last to do it was a Mil Liberg last April. Dest says he’s feeling comfortable. I think the since game one uh if you look like game one, two, game three, I’m already played I only played three games, but I think every game just got better and uh I feel like I I I I deserve to be here and I can easily play with everyone in this league. So uh I think uh yeah, I’m just getting better and better like every every every night and so yeah. I think it’s just getting easier for me. Johnny Gourd had an assist Tuesday night, giving him 350 points for his career. That is the fifth most by any active undrafted player. Anthony Celli is up to 301 points in his career. That passes Brian Bradley for 12th place all time in franchise scoring. He has 60 points from Tyler Johnson for 11th place. Lightning forward Pontis Holberg had two assists on Tuesday night for his second multi-point game of the season. He now has five points in 10 games during his first season as a Bolt. The Lightning have reassigned forward Scott Sabin to the Syracuse Crunch. He has now served his four-game suspension resulting from his actions in the Bolt’s final preseason game versus the Panthers. The Lightning do have an open roster spot. We’ll see if Ax Croer is ready to make his return to the lineup. Dave Michigan and Greg Lenelli will preview tonight’s game against the Stars on Lightning Power Lunch at noon Eastern. You can watch that show on Facebook X and YouTube. Listen live in the Lightning mobile app or download the podcast and listen anytime. The Lightning will have a morning skate at 10:30. Then they’ll host the Dallas Stars tonight at Benchmark International Arena. Be sure to get in your seat by 700 p.m. to see Nikita Cuchov honored for reaching 1,000 points over the weekend. He is just the sixth Russian player to reach that mark and third active behind Alex Ovuchetkin and Yenni Malin. Head coach John Cooper on his star. It’s uh been a privilege to stand on the bench to watch him get a thousand. It seems like just yesterday he was in the league and and uh but he’s a special special player. He’s going to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest player to play in this organization. And and uh you know, he’s got a lot of runway left in him, but he uh I mean thousand points you and you’re doing in what was 800 809 games. It’s a lot of points and not a lot of time. It’s pretty impressive. Get your tickets now to celebrate Cooch at Tampa Bay Lightning.com. If you can’t make it to the game, we’ll carry the ceremony live on the radio. The pregame coverage will begin at 6:30 on 1025 the Bone and in the Lightning mobile app. The game is on TNT tonight for broadcast purposes, but you’ll still get the local pregame show on the spot Tampa Bay channel 66 and in the Lightning app that starts at 6:30 as well. This day in Lightning history, it was on this date in 2017. Barov cuts his way right circle. Dangerous here. Barov behind the net. Barov turns, looks to center it. Shot point blank. Hubo saved by Vasilleski. Andre Vasileleski recorded his ninth straight win as the Lightning beat the Panthers 8 to5. The nine wins tied a team record set by John Graham. He would later eclipse that mark in 2021 when he won 12 straight games. Happy birthday to Pat Ellanuk who played in 63 games in the 1993 94 season. He scored 12 goals and had 14 assists. The Syracuse Crunch beat the Toronto Marlies 5 to4 to improved to six and one on the season. Brandon Hverson earning the win stopping 20 of 24 shots. Syracuse getting goals from Vex to Hoviaak. Tommy Miller, Jacob Peltier, Connor Geeki, and this gamewinner from Boris Kachuk. Rebound off the near boards. Camp had it knocked away. Drop pass. Here’s Boris Kachuk toward the empty net. He shot it wide. He follows up and scores. Boris Kachuk an empty net with 103 to go in the third. It’s 5-3 Crunch. The Crunch host the Udica Comments on Friday night. Orlando Solar Bears, they lose 4 to2 to South Carolina. They got goals from Spencer Kirsten, Emma Milo Roland. They’ll play at Greenville on Saturday night. Thank you for listening to the Daily Strike for Thursday, October 30th, 2025. I’m Steve, where every day is a hockey day.
The Tampa Bay Lightning host the Dallas Stars tonight as they are looking for their 4th straight win. They will also honor Nikita Kucherov pregame to celebrate his 1,000 points in his NHL career.
