{"id":529107,"date":"2026-03-29T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/529107\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:15:50","slug":"nhl-game-preview-nashville-predators-at-tampa-bay-lightning-with-line-combinations-03-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/529107\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Nashville Predators at Tampa Bay Lightning with Line Combinations 03\/29\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-7-2.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/George Walker IV<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Predators (34-30-9, 77 pts) at Tampa Bay Lightning (45-21-6, 96 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: Benchmark International Arena<br \/>Date: Sunday, March 29<br \/>Time: 5:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: ESPN+\/FDSN SO\/The Spot<br \/>Radio:\u00a099.9 The Fan\/102.5 FM The Bone (WHPT)<\/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>Nashville Predators News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Predators dropped their second straight last night in their 4-1 loss to the Canadiens. Today will start a six-game road trip as they continue their chase for a playoff spot. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging 3.2 goals per game while allowing 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning picked up a 4-2 win on Saturday over the Senators. The Lightning have points in seven straight games, averaging 4.7 goals per game while allowing 2.7 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Nashville Predators Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Stamkos-O\u2019Reilly-Evangelista<br \/>Forsberg-Wood-Marchessault<br \/>L\u2019Heureux-Hauala-Jost<br \/>Schaefer-Svechkov-Wiesblatt<\/p>\n<p>Skjei-Josi<br \/>Hague-Wilsby <br \/>Perbix-Ufko<\/p>\n<p>Annunen<br \/>Saros<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/nashville-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=nashvi&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Nashville Hockey merchandise here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Goncalves-Point-Guentzel  <br \/>Hagel-Cirelli<br \/>Bjorkstrand-Gourde-Holmberg<br \/>Perry-Girgensons-Sabourin<\/p>\n<p>Moser-Raddysh <br \/>McDonagh-Cernak<br \/>D\u2019Astous-Lilleberg<br \/>Santini<\/p>\n<p>Johansson<br \/>Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\"><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>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Predators<\/p>\n<p>Luke Evangelista had a goal and an assist in Nashville\u2019s loss to Tampa Bay back in October. <\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Zemgus Girgensons had two goals in the Lightning\u2019s win over Nashville back on October 28th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Predators<\/p>\n<p>None<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">F Nick Paul\u00a0\u2013 DTD<br \/>D Maxwell Crozier \u2013 IR<br \/>D Declan Carlile \u2013 IR<br \/>F Dominic James \u2013 IR<br \/>D Erik Cernak\u00a0\u2013 DTD<br \/>F Nikita Kucherov \u2013 DTD<br \/>D Victor Hedman \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 Photo\/George Walker IV Nashville Predators (34-30-9, 77 pts) at Tampa Bay Lightning (45-21-6, 96 pts) Venue: Benchmark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[2216,1843,5,5236,9245,2409,231,5281,4,5573,2410,92,2313],"class_list":["post-529107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-atlantic-division","tag-central-division","tag-hockey","tag-injury-report","tag-luke-evangelista","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-predators","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-zemgus-girgensons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116311949325573071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529107","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=529107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}