The Utah Hockey Club takes on the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
UTAH (32-28-11) at LIGHTNING (41-25-5)
7 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, Utah 16, SNO, SN1
Utah projected lineup
Clayton Keller — Logan Cooley — Nick Schmaltz
Michael Carcone — Barrett Hayton — Dylan Guenther
Lawson Crouse — Jack McBain — Josh Doan
Alexander Kerfoot — Kevin Stenlund — Nick Bjugstad
Mikhail Sergachev — John Marino
Ian Cole — Sean Durzi
Olli Maatta — Michael Kesselring
Karel Vejmelka
Jaxson Stauber
Scratched: Mattias Maccelli, Nick DeSimone, Kailer Yamamoto
Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body), Liam O’Brien (lower body)
Status report:
Utah recalled Yamamoto, a forward, from the Tucson of the American Hockey League on Wednesday.
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Lightning projected lineup
Jake Guentzel — Anthony Cirelli — Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel — Brayden Point — Nick Paul
Oliver Bjorkstrand — Yanni Gourde — Gage Goncalves
Zemgus Girgensons — Luke Glendening
Victor Hedman — J.J. Moser
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg — Nick Perbix
Darren Raddysh
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson
Scratched: Mitchell Chaffee, Cam Atkinson
Injured: None
Status report:
Cernak participated in the Lightning morning skate and is expected to play after leaving during the first period of a 6-1 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday.
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