{"id":536633,"date":"2026-04-02T14:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536633\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:03:23","slug":"bolts-host-pittsburgh-penguins-as-7-game-homestead-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536633\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolts host Pittsburgh Penguins as 7-game homestead continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Lightning have eight games to go in the regular season as their hunt for a playoff spot continues. <\/p>\n<p>Forward Jake Guentzel has scored a goal in five straight games, raising his point total to 81 this season. That\u2019s one more than his total from last year. After Tuesday\u2019s 4-1 loss to Montreal, Nikita Kucherov (121 points) is chasing Edmonton\u2019s Connor McDavid (125 points) for the league lead in total points.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh sits in second place in the Metropolitan Division and is paced by Sidney Crosby\u2019s team-high of 67 points.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins (38-21-16) <\/p>\n<p>Vs. <\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning (46-22-6)<\/p>\n<p>When: Thursday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Where: Benchmark International Arena<\/p>\n<p>Coverage for Thursday&#8217;s game starts at 6:30 p.m. on The Spot-Tampa Bay 66.<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/sports\/how-to-watch-tampa-bay-lightning-for-the-2025-26-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Here&#8217;s <\/a>how to watch.<\/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\/03\/REBECCA.PETIT.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suspect arrested for murder of Bartow man found in &#8216;pool of blood&#8217;: PCSO<\/p>\n<p>Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (PCSO) announced it arrested the suspect involved in the murder of a 56-year-old Bartow man found in a &#8220;pool of blood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arrest in &#8216;violent death&#8217; of Florida man found in &#8216;pool of blood&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Lightning have eight games to go in the regular season as their hunt for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[7136,7137,12262,5,189,4,61623,540,32946,92,7138,5168,5167,7139,7140],"class_list":{"0":"post-536633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-abc-action-news-sports","10":"tag-bolts","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-lightning","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-pittsburg-penguins","15":"tag-tampa-bay","16":"tag-tampa-bay-28","17":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","18":"tag-tampa-bay-sports","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabaylightning","21":"tag-wfts","22":"tag-wfts-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116335491483156496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536633","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=536633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}