{"id":544770,"date":"2026-04-07T02:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544770\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:49:14","slug":"nuts-bolts-off-to-ottawa-for-the-second-half-of-the-back-to-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544770\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts & Bolts: Off to Ottawa for the second half of the back-to-back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday:<\/p>\n

When: Tuesday, April 7 – 7 p.m. ET
Where: Canadian Tire Centre – Ottawa, ON
TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)
Radio coverage:\u00a0102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><\/p>\n

Lines from Monday’s game (subject to change)
Forwards
Gage Goncalves – Brayden Point\u00a0– Nikita Kucherov
Jake Guentzel – Nick Paul – Oliver Bjorkstrand
Zemgus Girgensons –\u00a0Yanni Gourde – Pontus Holmberg
Corey Perry – Mitchell\u00a0Chaffee – Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n

Defensemen
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh\u00a0
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Charle-Edouard D’Astous\u00a0 – Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n

Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s Matchup
The Tampa Bay Lightning close their 2025-26 season series against the Ottawa Senators with Tuesday\u2019s 7 p.m. game at Canadian Tire Centre…The Lightning are 1-1-0 versus the Senators this season after a 5-4 loss in the season opener and a 4-2 win on March 28…Jake Guentzel,\u00a0Brayden Point\u00a0and\u00a0Emil Lilleberg\u00a0have each scored 1-2\u20143 across the two games against the Senators to lead Tampa Bay…Andrei Vasilevskiy\u00a0started both games in net, going 1-1-0 with a .902 save percentage…The Lightning are 53-58-11 all-time when playing Ottawa, a record that includes a 22-33-5 pace on the road…Nikita Kucherov\u00a0is the franchise\u2019s career scoring leader versus the Senators with 17-38\u201455 in 40 games, and\u00a0Victor Hedman\u00a0is the next active Bolt with 14-29\u201443 in 53 games…Vasilevskiy holds a 13-9-0 record across his NHL career when playing Ottawa, posting an .896 save percentage and 3.02 goals against average…Jonas Johansson\u00a0is 2-0-0 against the Senators with an .863 save percentage during his NHL career, including 1-0-0 with an .857 save percentage as a member of the Lightning.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game
New Men’s Polos
Gear up this spring with the latest drop in men’s polos! New styles from Antigua and Columbia are available in store at Benchmark International Arena, and online at TampaBaySports.com, while supplies last.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Road Ahead
Thursday, April 9 at Montreal Canadiens
Saturday, April 11 at Boston Bruins
Monday, April 13 vs. Detroit Red Wings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday: When: Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[5,189,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-544770","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\/116361151381857134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544770","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=544770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}