PANTHERS (29-24-3) at LIGHTNING (36-14-4)<\/p>\n
7:30 p.m. ET; HULU, ESPN+, SNP, SNW, SNO, TVAS<\/p>\n
Panthers projected lineup<\/p>\n
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Sam Reinhart<\/p>\n
Carter Verhaeghe — Sam Bennett — Matthew Tkachuk<\/p>\n
A.J. Greer — Evan Rodrigues — Brad Marchand<\/p>\n
Sandis Vilmanis — Cole Schwindt — Mackie Samoskevich<\/p>\n
Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad<\/p>\n
Niko Mikkola — Uvis Balinskis<\/p>\n
Donovan Sebrango — Jeff Petry<\/p>\n
Daniil Tarasov<\/p>\n
Sergei Bobrovsky<\/p>\n
Scratched: Luke Kunin, Jesper Boqvist<\/p>\n
Injured: Tobias Bjornfot (undisclosed), Brad Marchand (lower body), Seth Jones (upper body), Aleksander Barkov (knee), Tomas Nosek (knee), Jonah Gadjovich (upper body), Dmitry Kulikov (shoulder)<\/p>\n
Lightning projected lineup<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel — Jake Guentzel — Nikita Kucherov<\/p>\n
Oliver Bjorkstrand — Dominic James — Gage Goncalves<\/p>\n
Zemgus Girgensons — Yanni Gourde — Pontus Holmberg<\/p>\n
Curtis Douglas — Jack Finley — Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n
J.J. Moser — Darren Raddysh<\/p>\n
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak<\/p>\n
Victor Hedman — Declan Carlile<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
Scratched: Max Crozier<\/p>\n
Injured: Brayden Point (lower body), Emil Lilleberg (undisclosed), Charle-Edouard D’Astous (undisclosed), Anthony Cirelli (upper body), Nick Paul (undisclosed)<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Marchand is questionable for the second leg of a back-to-back after playing and scoring the deciding shootout goal in a 5-4 win against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday; the forward has missed nine of the Panthers’ past 14 games. … Bjornfot will not play after the defenseman left in the second period Wednesday. … Vilmanis is expected to be available after missing the final two periods Wednesday. … Point, a center, was a full participant in the Lightning’s optional morning skate but will not be in the lineup and is questionable for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. … Defensemen D’Astous and Lilleberg also took part in the skate; each is expected to return after the Olympic break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANTHERS (29-24-3) at LIGHTNING (36-14-4) 7:30 p.m. ET; HULU, ESPN+, SNP, SNW, SNO, TVAS Panthers projected lineup Eetu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-460594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}