Everything you need to know ahead of Tampa Bay’s game against the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday.

When: Thursday, October 17 – 7:00 PM ET
Where: AMALIE Arena-Tampa, FL
TV coverage: Bally Sports (view local listings)
Radio coverage: 102.5 MHz FM, Lightning radio 24/7

Lines from Tuesday’s match (under the condition)
Forward
Jake Guentzel – Brayden Point – Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Nick Paul
Mikey Eyssimont-Conor Geekie-Conor Sheary
Zemgus Girgensons – Luke Glendening – Mitchell Chaffee

Defenders
Victor Hedman-JJ Moser
Ryan McDonagh-Erik Cernak
Darren Raddysh-Nick Perbix

Goalkeepers
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Thursday’s matchup
The Vegas Golden Knights will visit the Lightning at AMALIE Arena on Thursday for the first of a two-game series between the clubs this season…Tampa Bay defeated the Golden Knights last year and previously won a Dec. 21 game 5- 4 winning the March 19 rematch 5-3… Forward Nikita Kucherov went 2-5-7 to lead Tampa Bay in scoring against Vegas last year. Brayden Point went 4-1-5 in the series, while Nick Paul (1-2-3) and Victor Hedman (0-3-3) each had 3-point nights against Vegas on Dec. 21…Kucherov leads the franchise in career scoring against the Golden Knights with 3-16-19 in 10 games. Point has nine goals in 10 games against Vegas, while Hedman has a statistical line of 1-10-11 in 10 games… The Lightning are 5-4-3 all-time against the Golden Knights since the latter joined the NHL to the 2017-2018 season. Vegas has outscored the Lightning 40-39 in their 12 career games… Andrei Vasilevskiy has started all 12 of the franchise’s games against Vegas. The goaltender has 332 saves on 371 shots, good for a career save percentage of .895 against Vegas.

The way forward
Saturday, October 19 at Ottawa Senators
Monday, October 21 at the Toronto Maple Leafs
Tuesday, October 22 at New Jersey Devils