PANTHERS (37-35-3) at PENGUINS (38-22-16)<\/p>\n
5 p.m. ET; SN-PIT, SCRIPPS<\/p>\n
Panthers projected lineup<\/p>\n
Carter Verhaeghe — Sam Bennett — Matthew Tkachuk<\/p>\n
Mackie Samoskevich — Eetu Luostarinen — A.J. Greer<\/p>\n
Noah Gregor — Tomas Nosek — Jesper Boqvist<\/p>\n
Nolan Foote — Luke Kunin — Vinnie Hinostroza<\/p>\n
Gustav Forsling — Seth Jones<\/p>\n
Donovan Sebrango — Mike Benning<\/p>\n
Tobias Bjornfot — Mikulas Hovorka<\/p>\n
Sergei Bobrovsky<\/p>\n
Daniil Tarasov<\/p>\n
Scratched: Cole Reinhardt<\/p>\n
Injured: Aaron Ekblad (hand), Dmitry Kulikov (broken nose), Evan Rodrigues (finger), Sam Reinhart (foot), Niko Mikkola (knee), Anton Lundell (ribs), Uvis Balinskis (fractured foot), Brad Marchand (lower body), Cole Schwindt (lower body), Aleksander Barkov (knee), Jonah Gadjovich (upper body)<\/p>\n
Penguins projected lineup<\/p>\n
Egor Chinakhov — Sidney Crosby — Bryan Rust<\/p>\n
Tommy Novak — Ben Kindel — Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n
Anthony Mantha — Rikard Rakell — Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n
Elmer Soderblom — Connor Dewar — Noel Acciari<\/p>\n
Parker Wotherspoon — Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Samuel Girard — Kris Letang<\/p>\n
Ryan Shea — Connor Clifton<\/p>\n
Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
Stuart Skinner<\/p>\n
Scratched: Ilya Solovyov, Ryan Graves, Avery Hayes<\/p>\n
Injured: Kevin Hayes (upper body), Filip Hallander (blood clot), Blake Lizotte (upper body), Jack St. Ivany (upper body)<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Kulikov and Schwindt each could return during the weekend back-to-back at Pittsburgh, Florida coach Paul Maurice said prior to a 2-1 win against the Boston Bruins on Thursday. Kulikov, a defenseman, missed the game Thursday; Schwindt, a forward, has been out since Feb. 26. … Rust returned in a 6-3 loss at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday after being a late scratch for a 5-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday. … Penguins defenseman Caleb Jones, who last played Oct. 23, will be out the remainder of the season after having surgery on his right shoulder; he expected to recover in time for the start of next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANTHERS (37-35-3) at PENGUINS (38-22-16) 5 p.m. ET; SN-PIT, SCRIPPS Panthers projected lineup Carter Verhaeghe — Sam Bennett…\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":{"0":"post-583315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583315","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=583315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583315\/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=583315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}