NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Boston Bruins with Line Combinations 3/15/2025

David Pastrnak and Pavel Zacha of the Boston Bruins
Photo: Steven Senne

Tampa Bay Lightning at Boston Bruins (29-28-8, 66 Pts)
Venue: TD Garden
Date: Tonight – Saturday, March 15
Time: 7:00 pm EST

TV: NESN, ESPN+, FDSSUN
Radio:
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone
Boston – 98.5 The Sports Hub

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Tampa Bay -1.5 ML -140
Boston +1.5 ML +150
O/U 5.5

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning have lost three straight games after a 4-3 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday. Tampa Bay is 14-15-3 on the road this season. The Bolts are 8-11-0 against the Atlantic Division this season.

Boston Bruins News & Notes:

The Bruins are coming off a 6-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Thursday. Boston is 19-11-5 at home this season. The Bruins won the last meeting with Tampa Bay 4-0.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

Guentzel-Point-Paul
Hagel-Cirelli-Girgensons
Goncalves-Gourde-Bjorkstrand
Chaffee-Glendening-Atkinson

Hedman-Moser
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Boston Bruins Projected Lines

Geekie-Zacha-Pastrnak
Koepke-Mittelstadt-Lettieri
Khusnutdinov-E. Lindholm-Lauko
Beecher-Kastelic-Brown

Zadorov-Jokiharju
Lohrei-Peeke
Wotherspoon-Mitchell

Swayman
Korpisalo

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Players To Watch

Tampa Bay Lightning:

Jake Guentzel has scored five goals and added four assists over the past ten games. Brandon Hagel had 30 goals and 42 assists this season.

Boston Bruins:

Pavel Zacha has scored 13 goals with 27 assists for the Bruins. David Pastrnak has six goals and eight assists over the last ten games. Cole Koepke scored twice against the Lightning in the last meeting.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

RW Nikita Kucherov – Day to day

Boston Bruins

D Hampus Lindholm – Out for season
D Charlie McAvoy – Week to week

Next Game

Tampa Bay Lightning – March 17 vs. Philadelphia Flyers
Boston Bruins – March 17 vs Buffalo Sabres

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