Minnesota Wild at Tampa Bay LightningOct 8, 2026

Time TBDThursday, Oct 8, 2026

away

Minnesota WildMIN

at

home

Tampa Bay LightningTBL

Preview

Probable goalies, start odds, schedule edge and each team's lines from its last game.

Schedule Edge

No schedule edge

MINaway±0.0 pts

1 day rest · 1,691 km travel

1 day rest vs 2 days rest

TBLhome±0.0 pts

2 days rest

2 days rest vs 1 day rest

No meaningful schedule edge: MIN (1 day rest) at TBL (2 days rest).

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Minnesota Wild

Goalie: Starter not announced
Start probability: Jesper Wallstedt58%
Filip Gustavsson30%
Calvin Pickard13%
Schedule: Rested
Last game: W 3–1 at NSH · Oct 1

L1Hartman – Trenin – Brink
7:33
L2Foligno – Foligno – McCarron
7:13
L3Coleman – Eriksson Ek – Boldy
6:14
L4Kaprizov – Yurov – Shabanov
5:53
D1Spurgeon – Hughes
13:16
D2Brodin – Maatta
9:43
D3Bogosian – Hunt
7:57
PP1Eriksson Ek – Kaprizov – Hughes – Boldy – Shabanov
5:28

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Tampa Bay Lightning

Goalie: Starter not announced
Start probability: Andrei Vasilevskiy98%
Schedule: Rested
Last game: L 1–5 at NYR · Oct 1

L1Guentzel – Cirelli – Hagel
8:05
L2Kucherov – Point – Mikheyev
6:58
L3Harkins – Goncalves – Geekie
5:04
L4Girgensons – Viel – Holmberg
4:59
D1McDonagh – Cernak
11:26
D2Hedman – D'Astous
11:01
D3Carlson – Moser
9:29
PP1Carlson – Kucherov – Guentzel – Point – Hagel
7:18

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Game day: all games on Oct 8.

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Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.