{"id":453851,"date":"2026-02-11T00:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/453851\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:26:17","slug":"when-to-see-tampa-bay-lightning-players-during-the-2026-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/453851\/","title":{"rendered":"When to see Tampa Bay Lightning players during the 2026 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The NHL is on a break due to the 2026 Winter Olympics. But if you&#8217;re missing hockey already, don&#8217;t worry, there are plenty of opportunities to watch your favorite Tampa Bay Lightning players represent their home countries in Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of the days on which Lightning players are competing in their first games this year for their respective countries. Lightning head coach Jon Cooper is also leading Team Canada.<\/p>\n<p>    Wednesday, Feb. 11<\/p>\n<p>Slovakia vs. Finland<br \/>10:40 a.m. ESTErik Cernak will play for Team SlovakiaSweden vs. Italy<br \/>3:10 p.m. ESTPontus Holmberg and Victor Hedman will play for Team Sweden<br \/>\n    Thursday, Feb. 12<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland vs. France<br \/>6:10 a.m. ESTJ.J. Moser will play for Team SwitzerlandCzechia vs. Canada<br \/>10:40 a.m. ESTBrandon Hagel will play for Team Canada Jon Cooper will coach Team CanadaLatvia vs. USA<br \/>3:10 p.m. ESTJake Guentzel will play for Team USAZemgus Girgensons will play for Team Latvia<\/p>\n<p>For the full list of matches, countries, and more Olympic events, visit <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KATIE.LAGRONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida Sheriff\u2019s claims about immigrant arrests miss key details<\/p>\n<p>A Florida sheriff&#8217;s bold claims about immigrant arrests reveal a more complex picture when court records are examined in detail.<\/p>\n<p>FL\u2019s Sheriff\u2019s claims about immigrant arrests miss key details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The NHL is on a break due to the 2026 Winter Olympics. But if you&#8217;re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[22962,7136,7137,5,2086,189,55118,4,15262,540,92,7138,5168,5167,7139,7140,2787],"class_list":{"0":"post-453851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-2026-winter-games","9":"tag-abc-action-news","10":"tag-abc-action-news-sports","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jon-cooper","13":"tag-lightning","14":"tag-lightning-olympics","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-olympic-hockey","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","19":"tag-tampa-bay-sports","20":"tag-tampabay","21":"tag-tampabaylightning","22":"tag-wfts","23":"tag-wfts-sports","24":"tag-winter-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116049162809995950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}