{"id":540477,"date":"2026-04-04T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:51:15","slug":"nhl-game-preview-boston-bruins-at-tampa-bay-lightning-with-line-combinations-4-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540477\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Boston Bruins at Tampa Bay Lightning with Line Combinations 4\/4\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nikita-Kucherov-Tampa-Bay-Lightning.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Nikita Kucherov skating for the Tampa Bay Lightning\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Andrew Fielder | Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p>Boston Bruins (37-26-12) at Tampa Bay Lightning (47-22-6)<br \/>Venue: Benchmark International Arena<br \/>Date: Saturday, April 4<br \/>Time: 5:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0NESN\/ESPN+\/The Spot<br \/>Radio: 98.5 The Sports Hub\/102.5 FM The Bone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boston Bruins News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins lost 2-1 to the Florida Panthers on Thursday, snapping a four-game winning streak. Boston is in the first wild card spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning have won three of their last four games after a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday. Tampa Bay has the fourth-ranked penalty kill at 82 percent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Boston Bruins Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Khusnutdinov-Minten-Pastrnak<br \/>Mittelstadt-Zacha-Arvidsson<br \/>Reichel-E. Lindholm-Geekie<br \/>Jeannot-Kuraly-Kastelic<\/p>\n<p>Aspirot-McAvoy<br \/>H. Lindholm-Jokiharju<br \/>Zadorov-Peeke<\/p>\n<p>Swayman <br \/>Korpisalo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/bruins-benders?_pos=1&amp;_psq=br&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruins Benders \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Guentzel-Point\u2013Kucherov<br \/>Goncalves-Cirelli-Bjorkstrand<br \/>Girgensons-Gourde-Holmberg<br \/>Perry-Paul-Chaffee<\/p>\n<p>Raddysh-Moser<br \/>McDonagh-Cernak<br \/>D\u2019Astous-Lilleberg<\/p>\n<p>Vasilevskiy<br \/>Johansson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Tampa+Bay&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Tampa Bay Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Boston Bruins<\/p>\n<p>David Pastrnak leads the team with 96 points, including a career-high 67 assists. Morgan Geekie leads the Bruins with 34 goals, but has not scored in 15 straight games.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Kucherov is second in the NHL with 124 points and has registered a plus-45. JJ Moser is second on the team with a plus-43.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Boston Bruins<\/p>\n<p>D Mason Lohrei \u2013 Day to day<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>D Maxwell Crozier \u2013 IR<br \/>C Dominic James \u2013 IR<br \/>D Decklan Carlile \u2013 IR<br \/>D Victor Hedman \u2013 Day to day<br \/>LW Brandon Hagel \u2013 Day to day<br \/>RW Scott Sabourin \u2013 Day to day<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Andrew Fielder | Inside The Rink Boston Bruins (37-26-12) at Tampa Bay Lightning (47-22-6)Venue: Benchmark International ArenaDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[95,2178,5,5236,189,4,5573,1335,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-540477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-david-pastrnak","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-injury-report","12":"tag-lightning","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-game-preview","15":"tag-nikita-kucherov","16":"tag-tampa-bay","17":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540477","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=540477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}