Projected Lineups for Lightning vs Panthers – 4/28/25

The Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Florida Panthers today. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

LIGHTNING (2A) at PANTHERS (3A)

Eastern Conference First Round, Game 4

7 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS, ESPN, SN, TVAS

Florida leads best-of-7 series 2-1

Lightning projected lineup

Yanni Gourde – Brayden Point – Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Jake Guentzel
Gage Goncalves – Nick Paul – Conor Geekie
Zemgus Girgensons – Luke Glendening

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

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Status report:

Cirelli did not participate in the Lightning’s morning skate, but coach Jon Cooper said he would play.

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Panthers projected lineup

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

Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad
Nate Schmidt — Seth Jones
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov

Sergei Bobrovsky
Vitek Vanecek

Scratched: Mackie Samoskevich, Tomas Nosek, Jonah Gadjovich, Jaycob Megna, Uvis Balinskis

Injured: None

Status report

Greer will play a Stanley Cup Playoff game for the first time, replacing Samoskevich, a forward, on the fourth line.

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