Projected Lineups for the Bruins vs Lightning - 3/8/25 - The Hockey Writers - Projected Lineups

The Boston Bruins take on the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena this afternoon. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

BRUINS (28-28-8) at LIGHTNING (37-21-4)

3 p.m. ET; ABC, ESPN+, SN1, TVAS

Bruins projected lineup

Morgan Geekie — Pavel Zacha — David Pastrnak
Casey Mittelstadt — Elias Lindholm — Riley Tufte
Cole Koepke — Matthew Poitras — Vinni Lettieri
John Beecher — Marat Khusnutdinov — Mark Kastelic

Nikita Zadorov — Ian Mitchell
Mason Lohrei — Andrew Peeke
Parker Wotherspoon — Henri Jokiharju

Jeremy Swayman
Joonas Korpisalo

Scratched: Patrick Brown, Jakub Lauko

Injured: Charlie McAvoy (shoulder) Hampus Lindholm (knee)

Status Report:

Mittelstadt and Jokiharju each will make his Bruins debut after being acquired in trades Friday, Mittelstadt from the Colorado Avalanche and Jokiharju from the Buffalo Sabres. … Also on Friday, Boston traded forward Brad Marchand to the Florida Panthers, defenseman Brandon Carlo to the Toronto Maple Leafs and forward Charlie Coyle to the Avalanche as part of the Mittelstadt trade.

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Lightning projected lineup

Jake Guentzel — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Nick Paul
Gage Goncalves — Yanni Gourde — Oliver Bjorkstrand
Zemgus Girgensons — Luke Glendening — Mitchell Chaffee

Victor Hedman — J.J. Moser
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg — Darren Raddysh

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Scratched: Cam Atkinson, Nick Perbix

Injured: None

Status report:

Hedman is questionable after leaving in the first period of a 6-5 win against the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday with an undisclosed injury; he did not practice Friday and Lightning assistant coach Jeff Blashill said his availability for Saturday was still being determined.

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