Game

Wild at Lightning

Lightning 3, Wild 2 · first star John Carlson (2 G, 0 A).

2026-27 regular season · 2026-27 regular season, updated nightly. Data as of October 24, 2026, source NHL.

Minnesota Wild 2 at Tampa Bay Lightning 3

Wild MIN

2 FINAL 3

Lightning TBL

Thursday, October 8, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	0	2	0	2	36
Lightning	2	1	0	3	35

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild attack left, Lightning attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: MIN 36, TBL 35.

MIN in red TBL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 36 shots on goal (2 goals, 11 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 35 shots on goal (3 goals, 15 missed, 20 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT
1st	9	0	16	14	2	32
2nd	12	2	25	10	1	17
3rd	15	0	21	11	0	21
Total	36	2	62	35	3	70

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	TBL SOG	TBL G
Even strength	32	1	29	2
Power play	4	1	4	1
Short-handed	0	0	2	0

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 53.0% of the shot attempts, and 55.0% of the 109 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Lightning and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Lightning
Period	TBL CF%	TBL FF%
1st	66.7	65.6
2nd	40.5	41.2
3rd	50.0	48.4
Game	53.0	51.5

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

05:26 Anthony Cirelli (1) Erik Cernak (1), Brandon Hagel (3) · tip-in 0–1
06:02 John Carlson (1) Nikita Kucherov (4), Brayden Point (2) · wrist 0–2

2nd period

02:32 Quinn Hughes (2) Bobby Brink (3), Jared Spurgeon (3) · wrist 1–2
04:55 John Carlson (2) PP Nikita Kucherov (5), Jake Guentzel (3) · slap 1–3
14:01 Blake Coleman (2) PP Kirill Kaprizov (1), Quinn Hughes (4) · wrist 2–3

Three stars

John Carlson TBL · D #74 · 2 G, 0 A
Dennis Hildeby TBL · G #35 · 0 GA, .944 SV%
Jesper Wallstedt MIN · G #30 · 0 GA, .914 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	12:34	MIN	Jonas Brodin	interference	2	Gage Goncalves
2nd	04:02	MIN	Michael McCarron	holding	2	Anthony Cirelli
2nd	08:11	TBL	Max Crozier	hooking	2	Ryan Hartman
2nd	12:27	TBL	Pontus Holmberg	high sticking	2	Quinn Hughes
2nd	14:52	MIN	Zach Bogosian	holding	2	Jeffrey Viel

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Quinn Hughes #43	D	1	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	32:36
Blake Coleman #20	L	1	0	1	0	6	1	0	0	0.0	14:20
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	1	1	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	23:07
Bobby Brink #10	R	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	0	0.0	12:01
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	1	1	+1	3	2	5	0	0.0	24:54
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	52.4	21:16
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	2	62.5	10:50
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	0	80.0	10:56
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	0	0.0	12:47
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	0	0.0	10:54
Matt Boldy #12	L	0	0	0	0	3	4	4	0	0.0	22:14
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	-1	0	4	2	0	66.7	11:23
Maxim Shabanov #49	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	16:36
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	50.0	11:15
Daemon Hunt #48	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:03
David Spacek #82	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	08:23
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	2	2	0.0	23:00
Zach Bogosian #24	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	2	0.0	19:29

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jesper Wallstedt #30	L	35	32	3	.914	27/29	3/4	59:03

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
John Carlson #74	D	2	0	2	0	9	2	3	0	0.0	16:48
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	2	2	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	20:55
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	1	0	1	+1	4	0	0	0	42.9	19:25
Brayden Point #21	C	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	63.6	17:34
Jake Guentzel #59	C	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	21:12
Brandon Hagel #38	L	0	1	1	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	22:55
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	19:32
Conor Geekie #94	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	14.3	10:30
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	16:12
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	45.5	14:26
Jeffrey Viel #25	L	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	08:23
Ilya Mikheyev #95	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:08
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	14:02
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0.0	16:04
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	13:21
Max Crozier #24	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	4	2	0.0	21:02
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	17:16
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	12:04

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Dennis Hildeby #35	W	36	34	2	.944	31/32	3/4	59:37

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-10-24.