Projected Lineups for the Lightning vs Panthers – 12/23/24

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. 

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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. 

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• Panthers Win First Game of Home-and-Home Against Lightning
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