Projected Lineups for the Lightning vs Bruins – 3/15/25

The Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Boston Bruins at TD Garden tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

LIGHTNING (37-23-5) at BRUINS (30-29-8)

7 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, NESN

Lightning projected lineup

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

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

Jonas Johansson
Andrei Vasilevskiy

Scratched: Darren Raddysh, Cam Atkinson

Injured: None

Status report

Kucherov is expected to return after missing a 4-3 shootout loss at the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday because of an illness.

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Bruins projected lineup

Morgan Geekie — Pavel Zacha — David Pastrnak
Cole Koepke — Casey Mittelstadt — Vinni Lettieri
Marat Khusnutdinov — Elias Lindholm — Jakub Lauko
John Beecher — Patrick Brown — Mark Kastelic

Nikita Zadorov — Henri Jokiharju
Mason Lohrei — Andrew Peeke
Parker Wotherspoon — Ian Mitchell

Jeremy Swayman
Joonas Korpisalo

Scratched: None

Injured: Charlie McAvoy (shoulder), Hampus Lindholm (knee)

Status report

Swayman will start after being pulled after the first period of a 6-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Thursday; he allowed four goals on 15 shots. … McAvoy, who has been out since the 4 Nations Face-Off, continues to progress; the defenseman has been skating and shooting on his own, but is still week to week according to Bruins coach Joe Sacco.

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