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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Boston Hockey – Inside The Rink
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.
