NHL Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 3/23/2025

Pittsburgh Penguins (29-32-10, 68 Pts) at Florida Panthers (42-25-3, 87 Pts)

Venue: Amerant Bank Arena
Date: Sunday, March 23
Time: 6:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN+/Sportsnet PT/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Pittsburgh – 105.9 The X
Florida – 560 AM WQAM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Pittsburgh +1.5 ML +225
Florida -1.5 ML -278
O/U 5.5

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Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes:

The Penguins got back in the win column with a 6-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. They improved to 5-4-1 in March and are averaging 3.4 goals per game while allowing 3.3 goals per game. Sidney Crosby is on a six game point streak recording six goals and four assists.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers suffered a 6-3 loss to the Washington Capitals yesterday. The loss dropped them to 6-4-0 in March and they are averaging 2.4 goals per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game.

Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines

Rakell-Crosby-Rust
Dewar-Malkin-Tomasino
Koppanen-Lizotte-Acciari
Heinen-Hayes-Imama

Grzelcyk-Letang
Timmins-Karlsson
Graves-Kolyachonok

Jarry
Nedeljkovic

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Samoskevich-Barkov-Reinhart
Verhaeghe-Bennett-Rodrigues
Luostarinen-Lundell-J. Boqvist
Greer-Sturm-Gadjovich

Forsling-Jones
Mikkola-Balinskis
Schmidt-Bjornfot

Bobrovsky
Vanecek

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Players To Watch:

Pittsburgh Penguins

Evgeni Malkin this season has 45 points on 14 goals and 31 assists. He’s faced the Panthers 47 times in his career recording 51 points on 18 goals and 33 assists; in the two meetings this season he has combined for three points on a goal and two assists.

Florida Panthers

Aleksander Barkov this season has 63 points on 19 goals and 44 assists. He’s faced the Penguins 31 times in his career recording 27 points on six goals and 21 assists; in the two meetings he’s combined for two assists.

Injury Report:

Pittsburgh Penguins

D Pierre-Olivier Joseph – OUT
C Tommy Novak – DTD

Florida Panthers

RW Matthew Tkachuk – IR
LW Brad Marchand – Out
D Aaron Ekblad – Out (Suspension)
D Dmitry Kulikov – Out

Next Game

Pittsburgh Penguins – March 25 at Tampa Bay Lightning
Florida Panthers – March 28 vs Utah Hockey Club

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