{"id":535323,"date":"2026-04-01T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535323\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:22:33","slug":"nuts-bolts-lightning-open-april-at-home-vs-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535323\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts &#038; Bolts: Lightning open April at home vs. Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p>When: Thursday, April 2 &#8211; 7 p.m. ET<br \/>Where:\u00a0Benchmark International Arena &#8211; Tampa, FL<br \/>TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot &#8211; Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)<br \/>Radio coverage:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboneonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/playerservices.streamtheworld.com\/api\/livestream-redirect\/LIGHTNING_RADIO_24_7.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lines from Tuesday&#8217;s game (subject to change)<br \/>Forwards<br \/>Brandon Hagel &#8211; Anthony Cirelli &#8211; Nikita Kucherov<br \/>Gage Goncalves &#8211; Brayden Point-\u00a0 Jake Guentzel<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211;\u00a0Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg<br \/>Corey Perry &#8211; Nick Paul &#8211; Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen<br \/>JJ Moser &#8211; Darren Raddysh\u00a0<br \/>Ryan McDonagh &#8211; Erik Cernak<br \/>Charle-Edouard D&#8217;Astous\u00a0 &#8211; Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders<br \/>Andrei Vasilevskiy<br \/>Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s Matchup<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning wrap up their season series against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday when Pittsburgh visits Benchmark International Arena for a 7 p.m. puck drop&#8230;Tampa Bay is 1-1-0 this season against Pittsburgh with a 4-3 loss in December and a 2-1 shootout win in January&#8230;Brandon Hagel has scored 2-0\u20142 in those two games, while Nikita Kucherov has 1-1\u20142 and Darren Raddysh has added 0-2\u20142&#8230;Andrei Vasilevskiy is 1-0-0 against the Penguins with a .963 save percentage this season, while Jonas Johansson is 0-1-0 with an .871 save percentage in the Lightning net&#8230;Tampa Bay is 49-54-9 all-time against Pittsburgh, including 30-23-3 on home ice&#8230;Steven Stamkos is the franchise career scoring leader versus the Penguins with 18-30\u201448 in 44 games. Kucherov leads all active Bolts with 13-30\u201443 in 32 career matchups&#8230;Victor Hedman is the next current Bolt with 4-30\u201434 in 45 games&#8230;Vasilevskiy is 13-7-1 over his NHL career against Pittsburgh with a .906 save percentage, and Johansson is 1-3-0 with an .885 save percentage versus the franchise over his career.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game<br \/>Game-Worn 24-25 Away Jersey Auction\u00a0<br \/>Own a piece of history, and bid on an Away Game-worn Jersey from the 2024-25 season. \u00a0Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/tampabaysports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TampaBaySports.com<\/a> for more information and to place your bid today. \u00a0Available while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Ahead<br \/>Saturday, April 4 vs. Boston Bruins<br \/>Monday, April 6 at Buffalo\u00a0Sabres<br \/>Tuesday, April 7 at Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning&#8217;s matchup against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday: When: Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-535323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116331318209849155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535323","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=535323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}