Tampa Bay Lightning @ Carolina Hurricanes

Tampa Bay LightningLightningTB

16-10-2, 8-3-2 Away

CAR

Carolina HurricanesHurricanesCAR

17-9-2, 9-5-1 Home

Lightning

NAME	WINS	L	OTL	SO	GAA	SV%
A. Vasilevskiy	11	6	2	1	2.31	.917
J. Johansson	5	4	0	0	2.85	.896

Hurricanes

NAME	WINS	L	OTL	SO	GAA	SV%
F. Andersen	5	7	2	0	3.15	.875
B. Bussi	8	1	0	1	2.21	.903
P. Kochetkov	4	1	0	1	1.96	.914

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TB

CAR

Points

Nikita KucherovRW #86

Sebastian AhoC #20

Goals

Brandon HagelLW #38

Seth JarvisC #24

Assists

Nikita KucherovRW #86

Shayne GostisbehereD #4

Tampa Bay Lightning

Name, Pos	Status	Est. Return Date
Curtis Douglas C	OUT	9 Dec
Dominic James C	OUT	9 Dec
Andrei Vasilevskiy G	IR	11 Dec
Ryan McDonagh D	IR	11 Dec
Erik Cernak D	IR	15 Dec

Carolina Hurricanes

Name, Pos	Status	Est. Return Date
Jaccob Slavin D	IR	9 Dec

team	GF/G	GAA	SF/G	SA/G	PIM	PPG	PCT	PPGA	PCT	SHG	SHGA
TB	3.14	2.61	27.4	27.2	316	14	15.9	12	86.7	2	0
CAR	3.32	2.89	33.3	24.3	224	13	15.3	17	79.0	3	0

Lightning Last 5

DATE	OPP	RESULT
12/7/25	vsNYI	L2-0
12/5/25	vsPIT	L4-3
12/3/25	@NYI	L2-1
11/29/25	@NYR	W4-1
11/28/25	@DET	W6-3

Hurricanes Last 5

DATE	OPP	RESULT
12/7/25	vsSJ	L4-1
12/7/25	vsNSH	W6-3
12/5/25	vsTOR	L5-1
11/30/25	vsCGY	W1-0 OT
11/28/25	vsWPG	W5-1

Regular Season Series

Series starts 12/20

Hurricanes
Lightning

Game 1

21/12

Lightning
Hurricanes

Game 2

27/2

Hurricanes
Lightning

Game 3

14/3

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS
Tampa Bay	16	10	2	34
Boston	17	13	0	34
Montreal	15	10	3	33
Detroit	15	11	3	33
Florida	14	12	2	30
Toronto	13	11	4	30
Ottawa	13	11	4	30
Buffalo	11	13	4	26

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS
Washington	18	9	3	39
Carolina	17	9	2	36
NY Islanders	16	11	3	35
Pittsburgh	14	7	6	34
NY Rangers	15	12	4	34
Philadelphia	15	9	3	33
New Jersey	16	12	1	33
Columbus	13	10	6	32

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