{"id":533673,"date":"2026-03-31T23:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533673\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:12:19","slug":"lightnings-nikita-kucherov-expected-to-play-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533673\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Nikita Kucherov: Expected to play Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774998738_557_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/394.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/2094594\/kucherov\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kucherov<\/a> (illness) is set to be in the lineup versus the Canadiens on Tuesday, Eduardo A. Encina of the Tampa Bay Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>Kucherov missed two games while under the weather. The 32-year-old superstar should be good for his usual top-six role and power-play time. He racked up six goals and nine assists over the six games prior to his absence.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kucherov (illness) is set to be in the lineup versus the Canadiens on Tuesday, Eduardo A. Encina of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[276,5,189,4,1335,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-533673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-fantasy-hockey","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-lightning","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nikita-kucherov","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116326326363030150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533673","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=533673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}