NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at  Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 1/12/2025

Tampa Bay Lightning (22-15-3, 47 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (18-18-8, 44 pts)

Venue: PPG Paints Arena
Date: Sunday, January 12
Time: 5:00 pm EST

TV: ESPN+ / FDSS / SN PT
Radio:
Tampa Bay Lightning – The Bone 102.5. FM
Pittsburgh Penguins – 105.9 The X

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Tampa Bay Lightning -1.5 ML -145
Pittsburgh Penguins +1.5 ML +125
O/U 6.5

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning’s road losing streak reached four games with their 3-2 overtime loss to the Devils yesterday in New Jersey. Tampa Bay is 9-9-2 on the road this season and is 4-5-1 in their last ten games. The Lightning have a +36 goal differential this season and won the previous matchup with the Penguins 3-2 in overtime on November 19.

Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes:

The Penguins were blanked 5-0 by the Ottawa Senators on Saturday and are 3-4-3 in their last ten games. The Penguins have been good at home this season with a 12-8-3 record as they try to get back on the winning track. Pittsburgh is 16-4-4 when they score three or more goals this season.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lineup:

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

Hedman-Raddysh
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix

Johansson
Vasilevskiy

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Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lineup:

Rakell-Crosby-Rust
Bunting-Glass-Beauvillier
O’Connor-Hayes-Puljujarvi
Nieto-Lizotte-Acciari

Pettersson-Letang
Grzelcyk-Karlsson
Pickering-P.O. Joseph

Nedeljkovic
Jarry

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Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Nikita Kucherov has a four-game point streak and leads the Lightning in scoring with 59 points (18g, 41a) in 38 games. Kucherov has been the Lightning’s undisputed offensive leader with 41 points in the 21 Lightning wins, and still a better than a point-per-game player with 18 points in the 17 Losses.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Rickard Rakell has four goals in his last five games and is on pace for a career-high 41 goals. Rakell has 36 points (21g, 15a) which is second on the Penguins in scoring. The 31-year-old Swede has found a home on the wing next to Sidney Crosby and is currently in the midst of one of the best seasons of his career.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

D JJ Moser – IR

Pittsburgh Penguins

C Evgeni Malkin – OUT
C Philip Tomasino – IR

Next Game:

Tampa Bay Lightning – January 14 at Boston Bruins
Pittsburgh Penguins – January 14 vs. Seattle Kraken

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