Projected Lineups for the Utah HC vs Lightning – 3/27/25

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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