{"id":521084,"date":"2026-03-25T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/521084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:04:53","slug":"lightning-hope-to-continue-hot-streak-at-home-against-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/521084\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning hope to continue hot streak at home against Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Lightning wrapped up a successful four-game road trip to the Northwest this weekend by splitting a pair of games with Edmonton and Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolts earned seven of a possible eight points on the trip, going 3-0-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lightning&#8217;s Nikita Kucherov moved into first place in the Art Ross Trophy race by leading the NHL in goals (6), assists (t-7), points (13), game-winning goals (t-2), shots on goal (t-20) and plus\/minus (+11) across the four games to earn the NHL&#8217;s First Star of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning will look to keep stacking the points in the standings when they return for a seven-game homestand that begins Tuesday against the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild (40-19-12<\/p>\n<p>At<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning (43-21-5) <\/p>\n<p>When: Tuesday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Where: Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-game coverage is on The Spot &#8211; Tampa Bay 66. This is a nationally televised game. For details on how to watch, click <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/lightning\/multimedia\/how-to-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all Lightning games will be broadcast live on The Spot \u2013 Tampa Bay 66 (WXPX-TV) and will also be <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/lightning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spot Tampa Bay 66 is the official broadcast partner of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Spot and Tampa Bay 28 are both owned by EW Scripps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HCA Florida Brandon Hospital performs Tampa Bay&#8217;s first slipped rib procedure using biodegradable plate<\/p>\n<p>A local hospital has a new way to treat patients suffering from severe, radiating rib pain.<\/p>\n<p>HCA Florida Brandon Hospital performs Tampa Bay&#8217;s first slipped rib procedure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Lightning wrapped up a successful four-game road trip to the Northwest this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[7136,7137,12262,5,189,38,4,540,32946,92,7138,5168,5167,7139,7140],"class_list":["post-521084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-abc-action-news","tag-abc-action-news-sports","tag-bolts","tag-hockey","tag-lightning","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-sports","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning","tag-wfts","tag-wfts-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116286896572372874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521084","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=521084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}