{"id":486016,"date":"2026-03-05T01:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:51:01","slug":"nhl-game-preview-tampa-bay-lightning-at-minnesota-wild-with-line-combinations-03-03-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486016\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Minnesota Wild with Line Combinations 03\/03\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-102.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning (38-16-4, 80 pts) at Minnesota Wild (35-16-10, 80 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: Grand Casino Arena<br \/>Date: Tuesday, March 3<br \/>Time: 9:30 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0TNT\/HBO Max\/truTV\/The Spot-MTN<br \/>Radio: 102.5 FM The Bone\/104.5 ESPN Radio<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning dropped their second straight with a 6-2 loss to the Sabres on Saturday. They\u2019ve dropped two straight after winning their first game back. Since returning, they\u2019re averaging 3.3 goals per game while allowing 4.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Wild dropped their second straight as they lost 3-1 to the Blues on Sunday. Much like the Lightning, they\u2019ve dropped two of their three games back from the break, averaging 2.7 goals per game while allowing 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Goncalves-Point-Kucherov<br \/>Hagel-Cirelli-Guentzel<br \/>Girgensons-Gourde-Holmberg<br \/>James-Bjorkstrand<\/p>\n<p>Moser-Raddysh<br \/>D\u2019Astous-Hedman<br \/>McDonagh-Cernak<br \/>Lilleberg<\/p>\n<p>Vasilevskiy<br \/>Johansson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Tampa+Bay&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Tampa Bay Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello<br \/>Johansson-Eriksson Ek-Boldy<br \/>Trenin-Yurov-Tarasenko<br \/>Hinostroza-Sturm-Pitlick<\/p>\n<p>Hughes-Faber<br \/>Middleton-Spurgeon<br \/>Hunt-Bogosian<\/p>\n<p>Wallstedt<br \/>Gustavsson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/minnesota-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=minnes&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Minnesota Hockey Merchandise Here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Hagel had a point in each game against the Wild last season, finishing with a goal in one game and an assist in the other. <\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>Kirill Kaprizov had two goals and an assist in each game against Tampa Bay last season, finishing with four goals and two assists against them.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>F Nick Paul\u00a0\u2013 Out<br \/>D Maxwell Crozier \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>D Jonas Brodin \u2013 IR<br \/>F Nick Foligno \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Tampa Bay Lightning (38-16-4, 80 pts) at Minnesota Wild (35-16-10, 80 pts) Venue: Grand Casino ArenaDate: Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[2216,97,1843,5,5236,537,189,38,4,5573,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-486016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-atlantic-division","9":"tag-brandon-hagel","10":"tag-central-division","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-injury-report","13":"tag-kirill-kaprizov","14":"tag-lightning","15":"tag-minnesota-wild","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-game-preview","18":"tag-tampa-bay","19":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","20":"tag-tampabay","21":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116174067865899125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486016","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=486016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}