{"id":530961,"date":"2026-03-30T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530961\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:30:34","slug":"lightning-beat-predators-sweep-back-to-back-newsradio-wfla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530961\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Beat Predators, Sweep Back-To-Back | NewsRadio WFLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning (46-21-6) defeated the Nashville Predators (34-31-9) 3-2 on Sunday evening at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa.  The Lightning swept both ends of a back-to-back, having also defeated the Ottawa Senators on Saturday afternoon, and are now 6-0-2 in their past eight games.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless first period, Nashville got the scoring started with a goal from Joakim Kemell in the second.  Jake Guentzel answered to tie the game at the 13:32 mark of the second.  The Lightning took their first lead early in the third period when Brandon Hagel scored to make it 2-1, but Flip Forsberg tied the game for the Predators just twenty seconds later.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Perry broke the tie with what would prove to be the game-winning goal at the 6:52 mark of the third period.  Jonas Johansson went 29-for-31 in net for Tampa Bay to earn the win.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning continue their seven-game homestand when they host the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.  Puck drop between the Lightning and Canadiens is scheduled for 7:00 PM on Tuesday night at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n<p>COVER PHOTO COURTESY GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning (46-21-6) defeated the Nashville Predators (34-31-9) 3-2 on Sunday evening at Benchmark International Arena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[5,2409,231,5281,4,2410,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-530961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nashville","10":"tag-nashville-predators","11":"tag-nashvillepredators","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-predators","14":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116318137564628466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530961","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=530961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}