Projected Lineups for Panthers vs Canadiens – 4/1/25

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

PANTHERS (44-26-3) at CANADIENS (34-30-9)

7 p.m. ET; RDS, TSN2, SCRIPPS

Panthers projected lineup

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

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

Vitek Vanecek
Sergei Bobrosvky

Scratched: Tomas Nosek, Jonah Gadjovich

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

Suspended: Aaron Ekblad

Status report:

Vanecek will make his first start in four games; Bobrovsky is expected to start at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday. … Tkachuk took part in the Panthers morning skate; the forward was injured during the 4 Nations Face-Off in February and is not expected to return before the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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Canadiens projected lineup

Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Emil Heineman — Alex Newhook — Patrik Laine
Josh Anderson — Christian Dvorak — Brendan Gallagher
Michael Pezzetta — Jake Evans — Joel Armia

Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier
Kaiden Guhle — Lane Hutson
Jayden Struble — David Savard

Sam Montembeault
Jakub Dobes

Scratched: Joshua Roy, Arber Xhekaj

Injured: None

Status report:

The Canadiens will dress the same lineup they used in a 4-2 win at the Panthers on Sunday.

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