NHL Game Preview: Florida Panthers at Boston Bruins with Line Combinations 10/14/2024

Inside The Rink Game Day Preview

Florida Panthers (1-2-0, 2 Pts) at Boston Bruins (2-1-0, 4 pts)

Date: Saturday, October 14

TD Garden – Boston, Massachusetts

Time: 1:00 pm EST

TV: NESN

Radio: 98.5 The Sports Hub

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Florida +1.5 ML +105

Boston -1.5 ML -125

O/U 5.5

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Florida Panthers Notes:

The Panthers are without number one center Aleksander Barkov, who suffered a lower-body injury against Ottawa. Anton Lundell has been moved up to the first line for Florida in his absence.

Boston Bruins Notes:

The Bruins have won two in a row since dropping the opener to Florida. Boston has been eliminated from the playoffs each of the last two seasons.

Florida Panthers Lineup:

Luostarinen-Lundell-Reinhart

Verhaeghe-Bennett-Rodrigues

Greer-J. Boqvist-Samoskevich

Gadjovich-Giles-Schmidt

Forsling-Ekblad

Mikkola-Kulikov

Balinskis-A. Boqvist

Bobrovsky

Driedger

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Boston Bruins Lineup:

Zacha-E. Lindholm-Pastrnak

Marchand-Coyle-Geekie

Frederic-Poitras-Brazeau

Beecher-Kastelic-Koepke

Zadorov-McAvoy

H. Lindholm-Carlo

Lohrei-Peeke

Korpisalo

Swayman

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Players To Watch:

Florida – Sam Bennett has registered three goals this season, including two in the season-opening win over Boston. Sam Reinhart and Evan Rodrigues each have three points.

Boston – David Pastrnak scored a goal in each of the first three games for Boston, including being the game-winner in overtime to beat the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday. Elias Lindholm has registered two goals and three assists in the three games.

Injuries:

Florida – Tomas Nosek (Undisclosed), Matthew Tkachuk (Illness), Aleksander Barkov (Lower Body)

Boston – None

Next game  

Florida – October 15 at Columbus at 7:00 pm EST.

Boston – October 16 at Colorado at 9:30 pm EST.

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