Tampa Bay Lightning (48-25-6, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Boston Bruins (43-26-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Boston; Saturday, 12:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Bruins play the Tampa Bay Lightning as losers of four in a row.<\/p>\n
Boston is 43-26-10 overall and 11-11-3 against the Atlantic Division. The Bruins are second in the league with 366 total penalties (averaging 4.6 per game).<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is 48-25-6 overall with a 14-9-1 record against the Atlantic Division. The Lightning lead league play serving 14.9 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season. The Lightning won 3-1 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: David Pastrnak has 29 goals and 69 assists for the Bruins. Pavel Zacha has seven goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel has 37 goals and 49 assists for the Lightning. Nikita Kucherov has three goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bruins: 5-3-2, averaging 3.3 goals, six assists, 3.9 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Lightning: 5-4-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.3 assists, 7.1 penalties and 19.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bruins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Lightning: Brandon Hagel: out (lower-body), Max Crozier: out (abdomen), Dominic James: out (leg), Victor Hedman: out (personal), Pontus Holmberg: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning (48-25-6, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Boston Bruins (43-26-10, in the Atlantic Division) Boston; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[62410,301,5,189,4,292,43,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-549678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-62410","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-lightning","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay","16":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","17":"tag-tampabay","18":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116381484503935474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549678","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=549678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}