Projected Lineups for the Lightning vs Blues 11/5/24

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The Tampa Bay Lightning take on the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

LIGHTNING (7-5-0) at BLUES (6-6-0)

8 p.m. ET; FDSNMW, FDSNSUN

Lightning projected lineup

Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Nikita Kucherov
Jake Guentzel — Nick Paul — Mitchell Chaffee
Gage Goncalves — Conor Geekie — Cam Atkinson
Zemgus Girgensons — Luke Glendening — Michael Eyssimont

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

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Scratched: Darren Raddysh

Injured: Brayden Point (undisclosed)

Status report

  • Point will not play; the center was limited to 3:47 of ice time during a 7-4 loss at the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday. “We’ll take it one game at a time,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said.
  • Tampa Bay shuffled all four lines with Point out of the lineup.
  • Lilleberg will play after being a healthy scratch Sunday and replace Raddysh, a defenseman.
  • Goncalves was recalled from Syracuse of the American Hockey League and play in his third NHL game.

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Blues projected lineup

Brandon Saad — Pavel Buchnevich — Jake Neighbours
Dylan Holloway — Brayden Schenn — Jordan Kyrou
Alexey Toropchenko — Radek Faksa — Zack Bolduc
Alexandre Texier — Oskar Sundqvist — Nathan Walker

Ryan Suter — Colton Parayko
Pierre-Olivier Joseph — Justin Faulk
Scott Perunovich — Matthew Kessel

Jordan Binnington
Joel Hofer

Scratched: None

Injured: Robert Thomas (ankle), Nick Leddy (lower body), Philip Broberg (knee), Mathieu Joseph (lower body), Kasperi Kapanen (upper body)

Status report

  • Broberg, a defenseman, is out 4-6 weeks.
  • Leddy, a defenseman, and Mathieu Joseph, a forward, each remains day to day.

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