The Vancouver Canucks take on the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
CANUCKS (0-0-2) at LIGHTNING (1-0-0)
7 p.m. ET; BSSUN, SNP
Canucks projected lineup
Nils Hoglander — J.T. Miller — Brock Boeser
Jake DeBrusk — Elias Pettersson — Danton Heinen
Pius Suter — Teddy Blueger — Kiefer Sherwood
Nils Aman — Aatu Raty — Conor Garland
Quinn Hughes — Filip Hronek
Carson Soucy — Vincent Desharnais
Derek Forbort — Tyler Myers
Kevin Lankinen
Arturs Silovs
Scratched: Arshdeep Bains, Noah Juulsen, Daniel Sprong
Injured: Thatcher Demko (lower body), Dakota Joshua (testicular cancer recovery)
Status report
- Myers returned to practice Monday and coach Rick Tocchet said there is a good chance the defenseman will be in the lineup.
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Lightning projected lineup
Jake Guentzel — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Nicholas Paul
Cameron Atkinson — Conor Geekie — Michael Eyssimont
Zemgus Girgensons — Luke Glendening — Mitchell Chaffee
Victor Hedman — Janis Moser
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Darren Raddysh — Nick Perbix
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson
Scratched: Emil Lilleberg, Conor Sheary
Injured: None
Status report
- Eyssimont (lower body) was taken off the “injured, non-roster” list Tuesday morning and is expected to play.
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