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Minnesota Wild @ Tampa Bay Lightning

Wild

NAME	WINS	L	OTL	SO	GAA	SV%
J. Wallstedt	2	0	0	0	1.01	.957

Lightning

NAME	WINS	L	OTL	SO	GAA	SV%
A. Vasilevskiy	2	1	0	0	2.05	.898

Benchmark International Arena

7:00 PM, October 8, 2026Coverage: ESPN+

Tampa, FL

MIN

Points

Kirill KaprizovLW #97

3PTS

Nikita KucherovRW #86

4PTS

Goals

Kirill KaprizovLW #97

1PPG

Nikita KucherovRW #86

0PPG

Assists

Quinn HughesD #43

0PPA

2+/-

Nikita KucherovRW #86

0PPA

2+/-

Minnesota Wild

Name, Pos	Status	Est. Return Date
Danila Yurov RW	Day-To-Day	Oct 6
Brock Faber D	IR	Oct 15
Filip Gustavsson G	IR	Nov 1

Tampa Bay Lightning

Name, Pos	Status	Est. Return Date
Emil Lilleberg D	OUT	Oct 13
Yanni Gourde C	IR-NR	Dec 2
Dominic James C	IR-NR	Oct 8

team	GF/G	GAA	SF/G	SA/G	PIM	PPG	PCT	PPGA	PCT	SHG	SHGA
MIN	3.50	1.00	30.0	23.5	14	3	42.9	0	100.0	0	0
TB	2.67	2.33	30.0	20.0	30	0	0.0	1	85.7	0	0

Wild Last 5

DATE	OPP	RESULT
10/3/26	vsBOS	W4-1
10/1/26	@NSH	W3-1
9/25/26	vsDAL	L2-1
9/23/26	@DAL	L2-0
9/21/26	@CHI	L4-3 OT

Lightning Last 5

DATE	OPP	RESULT
10/5/26	vsPHI	W4-1
10/3/26	vsWSH	W3-1
10/1/26	@NYR	L5-1
9/26/26	@FLA	W3-2 SO
9/24/26	vsFLA	L5-3

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Regular Season Series

Series starts 10/8

Wild
Lightning

Game 1

10/8

ESPN+

Lightning
Wild

Game 2

11/7

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS
Winnipeg	2	0	1	5
Colorado	2	0	0	4
Minnesota	2	0	0	4
Utah	2	1	0	4
Nashville	1	1	0	2
St. Louis	1	1	0	2
Dallas	1	2	0	2
Chicago	0	3	0	0

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS
Ottawa	2	0	0	4
Tampa Bay	2	1	0	4
Florida	1	0	2	4
Boston	2	2	0	4
Montreal	1	0	1	3
Buffalo	1	1	0	2
Toronto	1	2	0	2
Detroit	0	2	0	0

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Minnesota Wild @ Tampa Bay Lightning

Scoring Leaders

Kirill KaprizovLW #97

Nikita KucherovRW #86

Kirill KaprizovLW #97

Nikita KucherovRW #86

Quinn HughesD #43

Nikita KucherovRW #86

Injury Report

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