NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Boston Bruins with Line Combinations 1/14/2025

Tampa Bay Lightning (23-15-3, 49 Pts) at Boston Bruins (21-19-5, 47 Pts)  

Venue: TD Garden
Date: Tuesday, January 14
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN+/FDSN Sun/NESN
Radio:
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone
Boston – 98.5 The Sports Hub

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Tampa Bay -1.5 ML -107
Boston +1.5 ML -114
O/U 6

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning are coming in off a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday. They got goals from Nicholas Paul, Brandon Hagel, Anthony Cirelli, and two from Nikita Kucherov. The Lightning are 5-4-1 in their last ten and have scored an average of 2.9 goals per game and allowed an average of two goals per game. They currently hold the third spot in the Atlantic Division with a two-point advantage over the Bruins with four games in hand.

Boston Bruins News & Notes:

The Bruins snapped a six-game skid on Saturday with a 4-3 overtime win over the Florida Panthers. The Bruins got goals from Oliver Wahlstrom, Morgan Geekie, and two from David Pastrnak. Jeremy Swayman stopped 40 of the 43 shots he faced to pick up his first win since December 28^th. The Bruins are 3-6-1 in their last ten and have averaged 2.5 goals per game in that stretch while allowing 3.2 goals per game.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

Guentzel-Point-Kucherov
Hagel-Cirelli-Paul
Chaffee-Girgensons-Eyssimont
Goncalves-Glendening-Atkinson

Hedman-Raddysh
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Boston Bruins Projected Lines

Geekie-Zacha-Pastrnak
Marchand-E. Lindholm-Lettieri Coyle
Wahlstrom-Poitras-Frederic
Koepke-Beecher-Brazeau

Lohrei-Oesterle
Wortherspoon-Carlo
Zadorov-Peeke

Swayman
Korpisalo

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Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Brandon Hagel this season has 48 points on 20 goals and 28 assists. He’s faced the Bruins 13 times in his career recording 11 points on seven goals and four assists; in the game last Thursday he had a goal and an assist.

Boston Bruins

Brad Marchand this season has 33 points on 15 goals and 18 assists. He’s faced the Lightning 49 times in his career recording 44 points on 18 goals and 26 assists; he had an assist in the loss to the Lightning last Thursday.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

D J.J. Moser – IR

Boston Bruins

D Hampus Lindholm – IR
D Charlie McAvoy – IR
F Charlie Coyle – DTD
F Mark Kastelic – IR

Next Game

Tampa Bay – January 16 vs. Anaheim Ducks
Boston – January 18 at Ottawa Senators

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