Projected Lineups for the Utah HC vs Panthers – 3/28/25 - The Hockey Writers -

The Utah Hockey Club 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.

UTAH (32-29-11) at PANTHERS (43-25-3)

7 p.m. ET; Utah16, SCRIPPS, NHLN, SNW, SNO, SNE

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 — Nick Bjugstad

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

Karel Vejmelka
Matt Villalta

Scratched: Mattias Maccelli, Nick DeSimone, Kailer Yamamoto

Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body), Liam O’Brien (lower body)

Status report:

Utah did not hold a morning skate following an 8-0 loss at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday. … Utah recalled Villalta from Tucson of the American Hockey League on Friday. … Goalie Jaxson Stauber was reassigned to Tucson.

Latest for THW:

Panthers projected lineup

Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Mackie Samoskevich — Sam Bennett — Brad Marchand
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Jesper Boqvist
A.J. Greer — Nico Sturm — Evan Rodrigues

Gustav Forsling — Seth Jones
Niko Mikkola — Nate Schmidt
Uvis Balinskis — Tobias Bjornfot

Sergei Bobrovsky
Vitek Vanecek

Scratched: Tomas Nosek, Jonah Gadjovich

Injured: Matthew Tkachuk (lower body), Dmitry Kulikov (upper body)

Suspended: Aaron Ekblad

Status report:

Marchand, who has played all 1,090 of his NHL regular-season games with the Boston Bruins, is expected to make his Panthers debut; he was acquired in a trade March 7 and had been out since March 1 with an upper-body injury. … Kulikov, a defenseman, is expected to start skating next week and could return to the lineup before the end of the regular season, Florida coach Paul Maurice said.