Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Boston Bruins on Saturday:<\/p>\n
When: Saturday, April 4 – 5 p.m. ET Lines from Tuesday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Saturday’s Matchup<\/p>\n The Tampa Bay Lightning will play the Boston Bruins on Saturday for the first time since the 2026 NHL Stadium Series game in the first of two meetings this month…The Lightning are 2-0-0 against the Bruins this season, led on offense by Nikita Kucherov (1-3\u20144) and Jake Guentzel (0-4\u20144)…Jonas Johansson is 1-0-0 with a .909 save percentage versus Boston this season, while Andrei Vasilevskiy is 1-0-0 with an .853 save percentage…The teams will close the season series one week from today in Boston…Tampa Bay is 41-64-19 all-time against Boston as a franchise and are led in career scoring by Vincent Lecavalier\u2019s 20-29\u201449 in 50 games…Kucherov leads all active Bolts with 12-25\u201437 in 42 games against the Bruins, followed by Victor Hedman with 11-24\u201435 in 58 games…Vasilevskiy holds a 12-13-2 career record versus Boston and holds a .909 save percentage with one shutout…Johansson is unbeaten against the Bruins over his career, with both starts coming as a member of the Lightning. Johansson is 2-0-0 with an .883 save percentage against Boston.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game The Road Ahead
Where:\u00a0Benchmark International Arena – Tampa, FL
TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)
Radio coverage:\u00a0102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><\/p>\n
Forwards
Jake Guentzel – Brayden Point\u00a0– Nikita Kucherov
Oliver Bjorkstrand – Anthony Cirelli – \u00a0Gage Goncalves
Zemgus Girgensons –\u00a0Yanni Gourde – Pontus Holmberg
Corey Perry – Nick Paul – Mitchell Chaffee<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh\u00a0
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Charle-Edouard D’Astous\u00a0 – Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
Levelwear 3rd Jersey Player Tees
Tonight the players will wear the alternate 3rd jersey on home ice for the last time of the 25-26 regular season, so grab your favorite 3rd Jersey Player Name & Number tee today! \u00a0Available in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at TampaBaySports.com<\/a>, while supplies last.<\/p>\n
Monday, April 6 at Buffalo Sabres
Tuesday, April 7 at Ottawa Senators
Thursday, April 9 at Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Boston Bruins on Saturday: When: Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5105],"tags":[5,189,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-538968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-lightning","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116342324292855812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538968","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=538968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}