Projected Lineups for Panthers vs Lightning – 12/22/24

The Florida Panthers take on the Tampa Bay Lightning today at Amalie Arena. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

PANTHERS (21-11-2) at LIGHTNING (18-10-2)

5 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS, SN, TVAS

Panthers projected lineup

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

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

Spencer Knight
Sergei Bobrovsky

Scratched: Adam Boqvist

Injured: Jesper Boqvist (upper body)

Status report

Jesper Boqvist, a forward, did not play Friday against the Minnesota Wild and is questionable for tonight.

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Lightning projected lineup

Jake Guentzel — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Conor Geekie
Gage Goncalves — Nick Paul — Mitchell Chaffee
Zemgus Girgensons — Luke Glendening — Michael Eyssimont

Victor Hedman — Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg — Nick Perbix

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Scratched: Declan Carlile, Cam Atkinson

Injured: J.J. Moser (upper body)

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