Projected Lineups for Canucks vs Panthers – 12/12/24

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Florida Panthers tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

PANTHERS (18-9-2) at CANUCKS (14-8-5)

10 p.m. ET; TVAS, SNP, SCRIPPS

Panthers projected lineup

Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Jesper Boqvist — Sam Bennett — Matthew Tkachuk
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Evan Rodrigues
A.J. Greer — Tomas Nosek — Mackie Samoskevich

Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Nate Schmidt — Uvis Balinskis

Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight

Scratched: Adam Boqvist, Jonah Gadjovich

Injured: None

Status report

  • The Panthers won’t make any lineup changes from a 2-1 shootout win at the Seattle Kraken on Friday.

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Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk — Elias Pettersson — Kiefer Sherwood
Nils Hoglander — J.T. Miller — Brock Boeser
Dakota Joshua — Pius Suter — Conor Garland
Max Sasson — Teddy Blueger — Danton Heinen

Quinn Hughes — Tyler Myers
Carson Soucy — Noah Juulsen
Derek Forbort — Mark Friedman

Kevin Lankinen
Thatcher Demko

Scratched: Erik Brannstrom, Aatu Raty

Injured: Vincent Desharnais (illness), Filip Hronek (upper body)

Status report

  • Miller returns after missing 10 games on a personal leave of absence that began Nov. 19. … Forbort returns after missing 17 games with a lower body injury sustained during a Nov. 4 practice. … Brannstrom, a defenseman, will be a healthy scratch for the second straight game.

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