NHL Game Preview: Nashville Predators vs. Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 11/7/2024

NHL Game Preview: Nashville Predators vs. Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 11/7/2024

The Nashville Predators will face the Florida Panthers tonight. The Predators lost 3-2 to the Washington Capitals last night, while the Panthers won 4-2 over the Dallas Stars on Saturday.

Nashville Predators (4-8-1, 9 Points) vs. Florida Panthers (9-3-1, 19 Points)

When: Thursday, November 7
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
Where: Amerant Bank Arena (Sunrise, FL)
TV: FanDuel Sports Network South

Scoring Leaders

Nashville Predators

Points: Filip Forsberg – 10
Goals: Filip Forsberg – 6
Assists: Ryan O’Reilly – 7

Florida Panthers

Points: Sam Reinhart – 21
Goals: Sam Reinhart – 10
Assists Sam Reinhart – 11

Team Stats

Nashville Predators

Power-Play: 20.9 (13)
Penalty Kill: 93.2 (2)
GF: 2.38 (29)
GA: 3.38 (26)
Faceoff: 53.2 (6)

Florida Panthers

Power-Play: 25.7 (7)
Penalty Kill: 86.8 (5)
GF: 3.69 (6)
GA: 3.15 (17)
Faceoff: 45.2 (31)

Expected Line Combinations

Nashville Predators

Filip Forsberg – Ryan O’Reilly – Steven Stamkos
Jonathan Marchessault – Colton Sissons – Gustav Nyquist
Philip Tomasino – Juuso Parssinen – Luke Evangelista
Cole Smith – Michael McCarron – Zachary L’Heureux
Roman Josi – Brady Skjei
Jeremy Lauzon – Alexandre Carrier
Marc Del Gaizo – Luke Schenn

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Florida Panthers

Evan Rodrigues – Aleksander Barkov – Sam Reinhart
Carter Verhaeghe – Sam Bennett – Matthew Tkachuk
Eetu Luostarinen – Anton Lundell – Jesper Boqvist
A.J. Greer – Tomas Nosek – Mackie Samoskevich
Gustav Forsling – Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola – Dmitry Kulikov
Nate Schmidt – Uvis Balinskis

Between The Pipes

Nashville: Scott Wedgewood (1-1-0, 3.54 GAA)

Wedgewood will likely start in the net after Juuse Saros started last night. Wedgewood got the start last Saturday, picking up his first win of the season stopping 25 of the 28 shots. This season he is 1-1-0 with a 3.54 goals-against average and a .854 save percentage. He’s 1-1-0 against the Panthers in his career with a .891 save percentage and a 3.30 goals-against average.

Florida: Sergei Bobrovsky (6-2-1, 3.08 GAA) 

Bobrovsky gets the start he is 6-2-1 with a 3.08 goals against average and an .892 save percentage, his last start came on Friday and he picked up the win stopping 32 of the 36 shots he faced. In his career against the Predators, he is 10-10-1 with a 3.18 goals-against average and a .900 save percentage. In his lone start last season he suffered a loss giving up three goals on 37 shots.

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Players To Watch

Nashville: Filip Forsberg (6-4-10)

Forsberg this season has ten points on six goals and four assists. In his career against Florida, he has 23 points in 21 games coming on seven goals and 16 assists. Last season in two games he had three points on two goals and an assist.

Florida: Sam Bennett (8-5-13)

Bennett this season has 13 points coming on eight goals and five assists. In his career against the Predators he has 12 points in 20 games on four goals and eight assists, last season in two games he had three points on three assists.

Head to Head & Next Up

The Predators went 1-1-0 against the Panthers last season with both teams scoring four goals, in their last ten they are 6-4-0 and have outscored them 30-27 over that span. The Predators will face the Utah Hockey Club on Saturday while the Panthers will face the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.

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