Projected Lineups for the Panthers vs Lightning - 4/15/25 - The Hockey Writers - Projected Lineups

The Florida Panthers 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.

PANTHERS (47-30-4) at LIGHTNING (46-26-8)

7:30 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, ESPN, SN360, TVAS

Panthers projected lineup

Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Evan Rodrigues — Sam Bennett — Jesper Boqvist
Rasmus Asplund — Nico Sturm — Jesse Puljujarvi
A.J. Greer — Tomas Nosek — Jonah Gadjovich

Gustav Forsling — Uvis Balinskis
Jaycob Megna — Seth Jones
Dmitry Kulikov — Nate Schmidt

Vitek Vanecek
Sergei Bobrovsky

Scratched: Brad Marchand, Anton Lundell, Eetu Luostarinen, Mackie Samoskevich, Matt Kiersted, Niko Mikkola

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Injured: Matthew Tkachuk (lower body)

Suspended: Aaron Ekblad

Status report:

Sturm is questionable after sustaining an undisclosed injured in the final seconds of a 5-3 loss to the New York Rangers on Monday. … Panthers coach Paul Maurice said there could be additional lineup changes.

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Lightning projected lineup

Yanni Gourde — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Jake Guentzel
Gage Goncalves — Nick Paul — Conor Geekie
Zemgus Girgensons — Mitchell Chaffee

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

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Scratched: None

Injured: Oliver Bjorkstrand (lower body), Luke Glendening (upper body)

Status Report:

Raddysh is expected to play after leaving in the second period of a 7-4 win against the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday because of an undisclosed injury. … Glendening, a forward, participated in the Lighting’s optional morning skate but will play. … Tampa Bay could dress 11 forwards and seven defensemen.