Projected Lineups for the Canadiens vs Panthers – 3/30/25

The Montreal Canadiens take on the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena this afternoon. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

CANADIENS (33-30-9) at PANTHERS (44-25-3)

1 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, NHLN, TSN2, RDS

Canadiens projected lineup

Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Joshua Roy — Alex Newhook — Patrik Laine
Josh Anderson — Christian Dvorak — Brendan Gallagher
Emil Heineman — Jake Evans — Joel Armia

Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier
Jayden Struble — Lane Hutson
Arber Xhekaj — David Savard

Sam Montembeault
Jakub Dobes

Scratched: Michael Pezzetta

Injured: Kaiden Guhle (quad)

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Panthers projected lineup

Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Brad Marchand — Sam Bennett — Mackie Samoskevich
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Jesper Boqvist
A.J. Greer — Nico Sturm — Evan Rodrigues

Gustav Forsling — Seth Jones
Niko Mikkola — Nate Schmidt
Uvis Balinskis — Tobias Bjornfot

Sergei Bobrovsky
Vitek Vanecek

Scratched: Tomas Nosek, Jonah Gadjovich

Injured: Matthew Tkachuk (lower body), Dmitry Kulikov (upper body)

Suspended: Aaron Ekblad

Status report:

Marchand made his Panthers debut in a 2-1 win against the Utah Hockey Club on Friday; he began the game at right wing on the second line and moved to left wing during the third period.

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