The Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
LIGHTNING (18-11-2) at PANTHERS (22-11-2)
7 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS
Lightning projected lineup
Jake Guentzel — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Conor Geekie
Gage Goncalves — Nick Paul — Mitchell Chaffee
Zemgus Girgensons — Luke Glendening — Michael Eyssimont
Victor Hedman — Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg — Nick Perbix
Jonas Johansson
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Scratched: Declan Carlile, Cam Atkinson
Injured: J.J. Moser (upper body)
Status report:
Neither team held a morning skate Monday following Florida’s 4-2 win in the first half of the home-and-home back-to-back at Tampa Bay on Sunday. … Johansson is expected to start after Vasilevskiy made 22 saves Sunday.
Latest for THW:
- Panthers Win First Game of Home-and-Home Against Lightning
- Projected Lineups for Panthers vs Lightning – 12/22/24
- Lightning’s Options for Replacing JJ Moser
Panthers projected lineup
Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Matthew Tkachuk
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Sam Reinhart
Evan Rodrigues — Sam Bennett — Mackie Samoskevich
A.J. Greer — Tomas Nosek — Rasmus Asplund
Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Uvis Balinskis — Nate Schmidt
Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight
Scratched: Adam Boqvist
Injured: Jesper Boqvist (upper body), Jonah Gadjovich (upper body)
Status report
Neither team held a morning skate Monday following Florida’s 4-2 win in the first half of the home-and-home back-to-back at Tampa Bay on Sunday. … Johansson is expected to start after Vasilevskiy made 22 saves Sunday.
Latest for THW:
- Panthers Win First Game of Home-and-Home Against Lightning
- Projected Lineups for Panthers vs Lightning – 12/22/24
- Panthers’ Goaltending Needs to Improve Soon
