Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday:<\/p>\n
When: Thursday, April 9 – 7 p.m. ET Lines from Tuesday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Thursday’s Matchup Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game The Road Ahead
Where: Bell Centre – Montr\u00e9al, QC
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
Gage Goncalves – \u00a0Nick Paul – Corey Perry
Zemgus Girgensons –\u00a0Yanni Gourde – Oliver Bjorkstrand
Jakob Pelletier – Conor Geekie<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh\u00a0
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Charle-Edouard D’Astous\u00a0 – Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Jonas Johansson
Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n
The Tampa Bay Lightning face another divisional opponent on Thursday when they face the Montreal Canadiens for the final time this regular season…Tampa Bay is 2-1-0 against Montreal this season after a pair of wins in December and a loss on the final day of March…Nikita Kucherov leads the Lightning in scoring against the Canadiens this season with 3-1\u20144, while Brayden Point has 1-2\u20143 and Oliver Bjorkstrand has scored 0-3\u20143…Goalie Jonas Johansson is 2-0-0 against Montreal this season with a .919 save percentage, and Andrei Vasilevskiy is 0-1-0 with a .905 save percentage…The Lightning are 63-42-17 all-time against the Canadiens, including 32-17-13 on home ice…Victor Hedman is the team\u2019s career scoring leader versus Montreal with 10-41\u201451 in 52 games, and Kucherov is the next active Bolt with 20-28\u201448 in 41 games…Vasilevskiy is 16-4-2 with a .930 career save percentage in games against the Canadiens, and Johansson is 4-2-0 with an .875 save percentage versus the team over his NHL career, including 3-1-0 with a .906 save percentage as a Bolt.<\/p>\n
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Saturday, April 11 at Boston Bruins
Monday, April 13 vs. Detroit Red Wings
Wednesday, April 15 vs. New York Rangers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday: When: Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547938,"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-547937","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\/116370841413628115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547937","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=547937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}