Projected Lineups for the Panthers vs Maple Leafs - 4/2/25 - The Hockey Writers - Projected Lineups

The Florida Panthers take on the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

PANTHERS (44-26-3) AT MAPLE LEAFS (45-25-4)

7:30 p.m. ET; SN, TVAS2, 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

Sergei Bobrosvky
Vitek Vanecek

Scratched: Tomas Nosek, Jonah Gadjovich

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

Suspended: Aaron Ekblad

Status report:

The Panthers did not hold a morning skate after a 3-2 overtime loss at the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday… Sturm’s status is unclear because he left that game after one shift at 3:17 of the first period following a collision with linemate A.J. Greer. Coach Paul Maurice said after the game, “We’ll get him looked at again (Wednesday). He didn’t feel he could come back, so we’ll get him assessed (Wednesday).”

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Maple Leafs projected lineup

Matthew Knies — Auston Matthews — Mitch Marner
Bobby McMann — John Tavares — William Nylander
Scott Laughton — Max Domi — Calle Jarnkrok
Pontus Holmberg — David Kampf — Steven Lorentz

Morgan Rielly — Brandon Carlo
Jake McCabe — Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit — Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Anthony Stolarz
Joseph Woll

Scratched: Nicholas Robertson, Philippe Myers

Status report:

The Maple Leafs will use the same 18 skaters for the third straight game.

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