{"id":540126,"date":"2026-04-04T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540126\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:46:50","slug":"lightning-host-division-rival-bruins-as-hedman-hits-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540126\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning host division rival Bruins as Hedman hits injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Thursday, the Lightning put defenseman Victor Hedman on long-term injured reserve. He won&#8217;t be eligible to return until April 13, when Tampa Bay hosts the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p>Hedman is on a leave of absence due to personal reasons. He hasn&#8217;t played since appearing briefly in the Bolts&#8217; 6-2 win in Vancouver on March 19.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Nikita Kucherov continues his noteworthy campaign. He registered a goal and two assists in the Lightning&#8217;s 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. His 124 points are second to Edmonton&#8217;s Connor McDavid (126).<\/p>\n<p>Boston enters play with 94 points, just six back of the Atlantic Division-leading Lightning and Buffalo Sabres. The Bruins&#8217; 944 penalty minutes are second only to Tampa Bay&#8217;s 1,088. Their power play is 9th in the NHL, but their penalty kill ranks 26th.<\/p>\n<p>Boston Bruins (43-25-8)<\/p>\n<p>vs.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning (47-22-6)<\/p>\n<p>When:\u00a0Saturday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Where:\u00a0Benchmark International Arena<\/p>\n<p>Coverage for Saturday&#8217;s game starts at 4:30 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\">\u00a0Here&#8217;s\u00a0<\/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\/02\/JADA.WILLIAMS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s someone&#8217;s loved one&#8217;: Tampa approves land swap to preserve the stolen graves at Zion Cemetery<\/p>\n<p>The City of Tampa said council members approved a land swap agreement to transfer privately owned land believed to be Zion, Tampa&#8217;s first African American cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Zion Cemetery land swap approved by Tampa City Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Thursday, the Lightning put defenseman Victor Hedman on long-term injured reserve. He won&#8217;t be eligible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[7136,7137,5,189,4,540,92,7138,5168,5167,7139,7140],"class_list":{"0":"post-540126","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-hockey","11":"tag-lightning","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","15":"tag-tampa-bay-sports","16":"tag-tampabay","17":"tag-tampabaylightning","18":"tag-wfts","19":"tag-wfts-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116346279339234453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540126","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=540126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}