Projected Lineups for the Panthers vs Capitals – 2/4/25

The Florida Panthers take on the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

PANTHERS (32-19-3) at CAPITALS (34-11-7)

7 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, MNMT

Panthers projected lineup

Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Matthew Tkachuk — Sam Bennett — Jesper Boqvist
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Evan Rodrigues
Jonah Gadjovich — Tomas Nosek — A.J. Greer

Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Uvis Balinskis — Nate Schmidt

Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight

Scratched: None

Injured: Mackie Samoskevich (illness)

Status report:

Each team held an optional morning skate Tuesday. … Samoskevich, a forward, skated but will miss his third consecutive game.

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Capitals projected lineup

Alex Ovechkin — Dylan Strome — Tom Wilson
Aliaksei Protas — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Connor McMichael
Taylor Raddysh — Lars Eller — Ethen Frank
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Andrew Mangiapane

Rasmus Sandin — John Carlson
Martin Fehervary — Matt Roy
Jakob Chychrun — Trevor van Riemsdyk

Logan Thompson
Charlie Lindgren

Scratched: Dylan McIlrath, Alexander Alexeyev, Jakub Vrana

Injured: Sonny Milano (upper body)

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