Projected Lineups for the Panthers vs Islanders – 3/16/25

The Florida Panthers are in New York tonight to take on the New York Islanders at UBS Arena. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

PANTHERS (41-23-3) at ISLANDERS (29-28-8)

7:30 p.m. ET ; SCRIPPS, MSGSN

Panthers projected lineup

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

Gustav Forsling — Seth Jones
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Uvis Balinskis — Nate Schmidt

Vitek Vanecek
Sergei Bobrovsky

Scratched: Tomas Nosek

Injured: Brad Marchand (upper body), Matthew Tkachuk (lower body)

Suspended: Aaron Ekblad

Status report

The Panthers did not hold a morning skate after a 3-1 loss at the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.

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Islanders projected lineup

Simon Holmstrom — Bo Horvat — Kyle Palmieri
Anders Lee — Jean-Gabriel Pageau — Anthony Duclair
Pierre Engvall — Casey Cizikas — Hudson Fasching
Maxim Tsyplakov — Kyle MacLean — Marc Gatcomb

Alexander Romanov — Tony DeAngelo
Noah Dobson — Ryan Pulock
Mike Reilly — Scott Mayfield

Ilya Sorokin
Marcus Hogberg

Scratched: Scott Perunovich, Matt Martin

Injured: Mathew Barzal (lower body), Semyon Varlamov (lower body), Adam Boqvist (upper body), Adam Pelech (lower body)

Status report

Reilly will return to the lineup for the first time since Nov. 1, when he sustained a concussion and then had a heart procedure Nov. 19.

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