Projected Lineups for the Lightning vs Utah – 03/22/25

The Utah Hockey Club hosts the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Delta Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others. 

LIGHTNING (40-23-5) at UTAH (31-27-11)

5 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, Utah16

Lightning Projected Lineup

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

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

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Scratched: Mitchell Chaffee, Cam Atkinson

Injured: None

Status Report: 

The Lightning, who did not practice Friday, are expected to dress the same lineup they used in a 3-2 shootout win at the Dallas Stars on Thursday, and could again utilize 11 forwards and seven defensemen.

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Utah Projected Lineup

Clayton Keller — Logan Cooley — Nick Schmaltz
Michael Carcone — Barrett Hayton — Dylan Guenther
Lawson Crouse — Jack McBain — Josh Doan
Alexander Kerfoot — Kevin Stenlund — Mattias Maccelli

Mikhail Sergachev — John Marino
Olli Maatta — Sean Durzi
Ian Cole — Michael Kesselring

Karel Vejmelka
Jaxson Stauber

Scratched: Nick Bjugstad, Nick DeSimone

Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body)

Status report:

Utah is expected to dress the same 18 skaters used in a 5-2 win against the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday.

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