{"id":497805,"date":"2023-01-12T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=497805"},"modified":"2023-01-22T00:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:05:04","slug":"after-improved-performance-lightning-to-face-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/after-improved-performance-lightning-to-face-canucks","title":{"rendered":"After improved performance, Lightning to face Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following his team&#8217;s recent road swing where it lost its last two games at Minnesota and Winnipeg, Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper had stern words for his team and a hard practice leading up its game Tuesday night. The Lightning responded with three power-play goals in a 6-3 win over the struggling Columbus Blue Jackets and will look to carry that momentum to Thursday&#8217;s first meeting this season with the Vancouver Canucks. According to Cooper, his club needed to get back to basics and take care of the business it is supposed to &#8212; winning at home against competition it&#8217;s expected to beat. &#8220;What&#8217;s going with us right now is internal,&#8221; Cooper said before Tuesday&#8217;s win, the Lightning&#8217;s eighth straight at home. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get our game in order. It was great coming out of the (holiday) break and we slipped a little here. We&#8217;re playing a team that we have to beat. &#8230; We&#8217;ve got to look<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his team&#8217;s recent road swing where it lost its last two games at Minnesota and Winnipeg, Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nhl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}