Wild vs. Lightning (Oct 8, 2026)

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Wild MIN

2-0-1

2-0-1 in Last 10

Lightning TBL

2-1-0

2-1-0 in Last 10

Preview

Wild

Lightning

Predictions

Notes

preview Wild Lightning predictions Notes

Odds

MIN

TBL

+141

Money

-144

Money

o5.5

-122

u5.5

+120

+1.5

-174

-1.5

+167

o6.0

Open

-149

Open

B. Hagel Over 0.5 Goals +186 K. Kaprizov Over 0.5 Goals +167

Forward Matchup

K. Kaprizov

MIN LW #97

N. Kucherov

TBL RW #86

Goals

Points

Shots on Goal

Defenseman Matchup

Q. Hughes

MIN D #43

J. Carlson

TBL D #74

Points

Blocks

Hits

Goalie Matchup

J. Wallstedt

MIN G #30

A. Vasilevskiy

TBL G #88

Wins

.933

Save Pct

.900

1.63

Goals Against Avg

2.05

MIN

Team Stats

TBL

Goals per Game

2.67

1.67

Goals Against per Game

2.33

26.67

Shots per Game

30.00

25.00

Shots Against per Game

20.33

36.4

Power Play Pct

0.0

100.0

Penalty Kill Pct

85.7

.933

Save Pct

.885

MIN

Injuries

TBL

Nick Foligno

Day to day (Upper Body)

Dominic James

Day to day (Hand)

Brock Faber

Out (Skull)

Emil Lilleberg

Out (Undisclosed)

Filip Gustavsson

Out (Hip)

Yanni Gourde

Out (Hip)

2026-27 Central Division

MINTBL

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Jets	3	0	1	7	2
Mammoth	3	1	0	6	9
Wild	2	0	1	5	4
Avalanche	2	1	0	4	8
Predators	1	1	1	3	-2
Stars	1	2	0	2	0
Blues	1	2	0	2	-3
Blackhawks	1	3	0	2	-8

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Panthers	2	0	2	6	0
Senators	2	1	0	4	2
Lightning	2	1	0	4	1
Sabres	2	1	0	4	-1
Maple Leafs	2	2	0	4	0
Bruins	2	2	0	4	-2
Canadiens	1	1	1	3	-2
Red Wings	1	2	0	2	-1

MIN

Last 5

TBL

Tue, Oct 6

Mon, Oct 5

Sat, Oct 3

Sat, Oct 3

Thu, Oct 1

Thu, Oct 1

Game Info

October 8, 2026

ESPN+

Benchmark International Arena

Tampa, Florida

First Goal Scorer

Yes No

N. Kucherov +614

B. Hagel +641

J. Guentzel +641

K. Kaprizov +641

M. Boldy +641

Goals

Line Over Under

A. Cirelli 0.5 +355 -413

B. Brink 0.5 +567

B. Coleman 0.5 +388 -441

B. Hagel 0.5 +186 -194

B. Point 0.5 +208 -233

Points

Line Over Under

K. Kaprizov 1.5 +223

M. Boldy 1.5 +245

N. Kucherov 1.5 +127 -150

A. Cirelli 0.5 +127 -153

B. Coleman 0.5 +156 -199

Assists

Line Over Under

A. Cirelli 0.5 +245 -264

B. Coleman 0.5 +308 -335

B. Hagel 0.5 +147 -160

B. Point 0.5 +160 -178

G. Goncalves 0.5 +270 -292

Shots on Goal

Line Over Under

K. Kaprizov 3.5 +144 -170

M. Boldy 3.5 +141 -170

B. Hagel 2.5 -156 +133

B. Point 2.5 +141 -160

J. Eriksson Ek 2.5 +133 -170

Team Leaders

K. Kaprizov

Q. Hughes

GWG

Q. Hughes

SV%

.933

J. Wallstedt

Season

Career vs TBL

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	GWG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Quinn Hughes Q. Hughes	3	1	3	4	+2	0	1	0	1	10	10.0	0	0	0	0	2	1	4	26:28
Michael McCarron M. McCarron	3	0	3	3	+3	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	24	43	55.8	10	2	0	3	15:13
Jared Spurgeon J. Spurgeon	3	1	2	3	+1	4	0	1	0	2	50.0	0	0	0	1	5	0	4	20:21
Kirill Kaprizov K. Kaprizov	3	3	0	3	+1	0	1	0	0	9	33.3	1	4	25.0	1	0	0	2	21:33
Blake Coleman B. Coleman	3	1	1	2	-2	2	1	1	1	5	20.0	1	2	50.0	6	1	1	4	15:01
Bobby Brink B. Brink	3	0	2	2	-2	0	0	2	0	5	0.0	0	1	0.0	3	2	0	3	12:09
Danila Yurov D. Yurov	3	1	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	4	25.0	12	24	50.0	5	1	1	2	13:10
Maxim Shabanov M. Shabanov	3	1	1	2	+1	0	0	1	0	2	50.0	0	0	0	4	2	3	5	15:51
Ryan Hartman R. Hartman	3	0	1	1	-3	4	0	1	0	0	0	18	32	56.3	2	2	0	4	12:41
Olli Maatta O. Maatta	3	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	3	1	4	21:22
Joel Eriksson Ek J. Eriksson Ek	3	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	5	0.0	24	53	45.3	3	1	0	2	19:31
Nick Foligno N. Foligno	3	1	0	1	+2	0	0	0	0	3	33.3	3	9	33.3	0	0	0	1	9:57
Zach Bogosian Z. Bogosian	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	14:53
Jonas Brodin J. Brodin	3	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	9	2	3	20:28
Marcus Foligno M. Foligno	3	0	0	0	+3	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	10	0	1	2	12:35
Yakov Trenin Y. Trenin	3	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	0	2	0.0	12	1	0	2	13:37
Matt Boldy M. Boldy	3	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	16	0.0	1	5	20.0	2	4	1	4	20:59
Daemon Hunt D. Hunt	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	12:48

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Jesper Wallstedt J. Wallstedt	3	3	2	0	1	75	70	.933	5	1.63	0	184

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	GWG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Nick Foligno N. Foligno	53	12	12	24	-7	56	6	5	0	3	104	11.5	108	231	46.8	106	18	22	15	15:01
Quinn Hughes Q. Hughes	12	4	12	16	+1	2	1	7	0	0	27	14.8	0	0	0	2	10	6	10	25:34
Marcus Foligno M. Foligno	31	8	5	13	+3	35	2	0	0	1	32	25.0	21	32	65.6	125	16	8	13	14:25
Kirill Kaprizov K. Kaprizov	9	8	5	13	+9	6	2	1	0	1	26	30.8	0	0	0	2	2	4	9	20:50
Zach Bogosian Z. Bogosian	39	3	9	12	+1	31	0	2	0	0	68	4.4	0	0	0	56	56	16	26	21:23
Jared Spurgeon J. Spurgeon	20	4	6	10	+4	10	1	2	0	1	30	13.3	0	0	0	10	28	6	5	22:39
Joel Eriksson Ek J. Eriksson Ek	15	8	2	10	+8	8	0	1	1	0	50	16.0	115	254	45.3	24	6	8	4	17:52
Matt Boldy M. Boldy	8	2	8	10	-1	0	1	4	0	2	23	8.7	5	8	62.5	1	7	6	5	17:43
Ryan Hartman R. Hartman	17	1	5	6	-5	23	0	0	0	1	28	3.6	47	85	55.3	20	12	11	7	14:07
Blake Coleman B. Coleman	18	2	3	5	+1	22	0	0	0	0	42	4.8	24	43	55.8	44	11	11	13	16:00
Olli Maatta O. Maatta	28	1	4	5	-1	6	0	1	0	0	41	2.4	0	0	0	40	51	8	17	18:51
Yakov Trenin Y. Trenin	17	3	2	5	+6	0	0	0	0	0	27	11.1	3	3	100.0	47	4	11	7	12:50
Bobby Brink B. Brink	6	3	2	5	+1	4	0	1	0	0	9	33.3	1	8	12.5	9	4	2	5	16:14
Brock Faber B. Faber	6	3	2	5	+3	6	1	0	0	0	13	23.1	0	0	0	4	9	1	4	23:53
Jonas Brodin J. Brodin	21	0	4	4	+7	6	0	0	0	0	24	0.0	0	0	0	11	42	10	7	22:24
Tyler Pitlick T. Pitlick	11	1	2	3	-1	0	0	0	0	0	4	25.0	2	2	100.0	20	5	1	2	11:00
Nico Sturm N. Sturm	10	1	1	2	-6	9	0	0	0	0	9	11.1	48	76	63.2	24	5	4	3	13:04
Michael McCarron M. McCarron	15	0	1	1	-3	32	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	57	104	54.8	23	8	2	3	11:17
Maxim Shabanov M. Shabanov	3	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	0	1	0.0	1	2	1	4	13:59
Daemon Hunt D. Hunt	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	15:47
Danila Yurov D. Yurov	2	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	10	18	55.6	4	3	1	2	12:41

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Filip Gustavsson F. Gustavsson	5	5	3	2	0	152	136	.895	16	3.24	0	296
	Calvin Pickard C. Pickard	4	3	0	0	3	122	109	.893	13	3.27	0	239

Team Leaders

J. Guentzel

N. Kucherov

GWG

P. Holmberg

SV%

.900

A. Vasilevskiy

Season

Career vs MIN

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	GWG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	3	1	3	4	+2	0	0	5	20.0	1	1	100.0	0	1	1	10	22:57
Jake Guentzel J. Guentzel	3	1	2	3	+2	0	0	10	10.0	13	22	59.1	1	1	1	3	21:13
Brandon Hagel B. Hagel	3	1	2	3	+2	2	0	17	5.9	1	3	33.3	1	1	3	4	21:59
Ilya Mikheyev I. Mikheyev	3	1	2	3	0	0	0	3	33.3	0	0	0	6	2	0	2	13:52
Pontus Holmberg P. Holmberg	3	1	1	2	0	2	1	6	16.7	1	3	33.3	2	1	0	4	14:30
John Carlson J. Carlson	3	0	2	2	0	0	0	5	0.0	0	0	0	1	3	0	4	20:42
Brayden Point B. Point	3	1	1	2	+2	2	0	7	14.3	12	27	44.4	0	3	1	2	20:26
Conor Geekie C. Geekie	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	4	25.0	9	20	45.0	6	0	0	0	11:10
Zemgus Girgensons Z. Girgensons	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0.0	18	37	48.6	11	5	1	0	12:10
Charle-Edouard D'Astous C. D'Astous	3	1	0	1	-1	2	0	4	25.0	0	0	0	2	4	1	6	14:37
Erik Cernak E. Cernak	3	0	0	0	+3	0	0	6	0.0	0	0	0	11	4	0	0	19:36
Victor Hedman V. Hedman	3	0	0	0	+1	0	0	4	0.0	0	0	0	2	8	1	2	15:47
Ryan McDonagh R. McDonagh	3	0	0	0	+1	2	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	1	4	2	3	15:40
Anthony Cirelli A. Cirelli	3	0	0	0	+1	2	0	5	0.0	26	50	52.0	3	4	0	2	18:03
Jeff Viel J. Viel	3	0	0	0	-3	7	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	13	1	0	1	8:24
Gage Goncalves G. Goncalves	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0.0	0	1	0.0	3	0	1	3	14:43
J.J. Moser J.J. Moser	3	0	0	0	+2	4	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	2	4	0	2	17:07
Emil Lilleberg E. Lilleberg	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	10:30
Max Crozier M. Crozier	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	15:24

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Andrei Vasilevskiy A. Vasilevskiy	3	3	2	1	0	60	54	.900	6	2.05	0	176

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	21	10	11	21	-4	8	2	7	0	0	0	65	15.4	0	0	0	8	4	11	11	20:18
Ryan McDonagh R. McDonagh	27	4	15	19	+5	2	0	3	0	0	0	36	11.1	0	0	0	22	48	9	17	22:14
Jake Guentzel J. Guentzel	16	7	11	18	-8	4	4	5	0	0	0	52	13.5	21	28	75.0	14	7	5	5	19:09
Victor Hedman V. Hedman	24	4	8	12	-11	8	2	7	0	0	1	66	6.1	0	0	0	23	37	11	16	23:36
Brayden Point B. Point	16	7	5	12	+5	8	4	1	0	0	1	41	17.1	69	148	46.6	3	10	8	6	19:54
Yanni Gourde Y. Gourde	20	4	6	10	+2	7	0	0	2	0	1	35	11.4	116	201	57.7	20	11	8	11	15:44
Brandon Hagel B. Hagel	11	3	6	9	-10	18	1	3	1	0	0	24	12.5	5	11	45.5	6	1	12	7	19:41
John Carlson J. Carlson	23	0	8	8	+4	8	0	6	0	0	0	58	0.0	0	0	0	11	39	9	24	23:31
Anthony Cirelli A. Cirelli	14	4	3	7	-13	12	2	2	0	1	0	20	20.0	83	170	48.8	7	10	4	4	18:10
Erik Cernak E. Cernak	9	2	3	5	-4	4	0	0	0	1	1	10	20.0	0	0	0	22	7	1	4	17:44
Zemgus Girgensons Z. Girgensons	22	2	2	4	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	32	6.3	25	65	38.5	33	15	6	1	13:34
Pontus Holmberg P. Holmberg	4	1	1	2	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	50.0	6	14	42.9	3	6	0	3	14:12
Ilya Mikheyev I. Mikheyev	14	2	0	2	+1	6	0	0	0	0	0	21	9.5	1	3	33.3	2	2	3	9	15:43
Charle-Edouard D'Astous C. D'Astous	2	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	6	5	0	0	18:05
Gage Goncalves G. Goncalves	1	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	1	0.0	1	0	0	2	15:31
J.J. Moser J.J. Moser	13	1	0	1	-3	4	0	0	0	0	0	18	5.6	0	0	0	10	15	1	8	20:49
Jeff Viel J. Viel	5	0	0	0	-2	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	12	1	0	4	8:00
Scott Sabourin S. Sabourin	3	0	0	0	-1	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	1	7:26
Emil Lilleberg E. Lilleberg	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	0	0	0	14	2	0	3	15:32
Conor Geekie C. Geekie	3	0	0	0	-3	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	4	5	80.0	5	1	1	5	11:49
Max Crozier M. Crozier	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	16:12

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Andrei Vasilevskiy A. Vasilevskiy	16	16	7	7	2	452	410	.907	42	2.63	1	958
	Dennis Hildeby D. Hildeby	1	0	0	0	0	9	9	1.000	0	0.00	0	19

Lightning and Wild face off in out-of-conference matchup

The Associated Press

Oct 7, 2026

Minnesota Wild (2-0-1, in the Central Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (2-1, in the Atlantic Division)

Tampa, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning host the Minnesota Wild in a non-conference matchup.

Tampa Bay went 50-26-6 overall and 27-16-2 in home games last season. The Lightning committed 424 total penalties last season, averaging 5.2 per game and serving 14.6 penalty minutes per game.

Minnesota had a 46-24-12 record overall and a 25-17-5 record in road games last season. The Wild scored 268 goals while allowing 235 for a +33 goal differential last season.

INJURIES: Lightning: Emil Lilleberg: out (undisclosed), Dominic James: out (hand), Yanni Gourde: out (hip).

Wild: Filip Gustavsson: out (hip), Brock Faber: out (skull).

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

Wild MIN

Lightning TBL

Odds

Forward Matchup

Defenseman Matchup

Goalie Matchup

Team Stats

Injuries

2026-27 Central Division

Last 5

Game Info

First Goal Scorer

Goals

Points

Assists

Shots on Goal

Lightning and Wild face off in out-of-conference matchup

Players Mentioned

Yanni Gourde

Filip Gustavsson

Brock Faber