NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 1/13/26

(Photo by: Chris O’Meara-AP)

Tampa Bay Lightning (28-13-3, 59 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (21-14-9, 51 pts)

Venue: PPG Paints Arena
Date: Tuesday, January 13
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch: ESPN+, The Spot-MTN
Radio: Sportsnet 95.3 FM WDAE 100.7 WFLA,107.3 Planet Radio, 105.9 FM The X, 970 AM, Fox Sports

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning continue to roll after their tenth straight win, a 5-1 victory over the Flyers on Monday night. With a 5-0-0-0 record in their last five, scoring an average of 5.6 goals per game and allowing an average of 2.2 goals per game.

Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes:

The Penguins lost their last game 1-0 to the Bruins back on Sunday, January 11th in Boston. Pittsburgh has a 3-2-0-0 record over its last five games. The Penguins have scored an average of 2.8 goals per game and have conceded an average of 1.8 goals per game in their last five. The Penguins won the first meeting of the year between these two teams 4-3 back on December 4th.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

Goncalves-Point-Kucherov
Hagel-Cirelli-Guentzel
Girgensons-Gourde-Holmberg
Paul-James-Bjorkstrand

Moser-Raddysh
D’astous-Cernak
Carlile-Crozier

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines

Mantha-Crosby-Rakell
Malkin-Hayes-Chinakhov
Novak-Kindel-Brazeau
Dewar-Lizotte-Acciari

Wotherspoon-Karlsson
Kulak-Letang
Shea-Clifton

Silvos
Skinner

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Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Jake Gunetzel had one assist and three shots in the 4-3 loss to the Penguins back on December 4th for the Lightnight. Guntzel has two goals and six assists for Tampa Bay in their last five games.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Tommy Novak had two assists and two shots in the Penguins’ 4-3 win in the first meeting with the Lightning, back on December 4th. He has one goal on six shots in his last five games.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

D Emil Lilleberg – IR
D Victor Hedman – IR
F Scott Sabourin – IR
D Ryan McDonagh – IR
C- Brayden Point -DTD

Pittsburgh Penguins

C Filip Hallander – IR
G Joel Blomqvist – IR
D Caleb Jones – IR
F Bryan Rust – DTD

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JC Giff

Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.