NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 12/23/2024

Florida Panthers celebrating a goal
(AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Tampa Bay Lightning (18-11-2, 38 Pts) at Florida Panthers (22-11-2, 46 Pts)
Venue: Amalie Arena
Date: Tonight – Monday, December 23
Time: 7:00 pm EST

TV: ESPN+, FanDuel Sports Network Sun, SCRIPPS
Radio:
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone
Tampa Bay – 560 WQAM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Tampa Bay +1.5 ML +130
Florida -1.5 ML -155
O/U 6.5

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

After Sunday’s loss to the Panthers, the Lightning are now 0-4-0 against Atlantic Division opponents. Tampa Bay had their four-game winning streak snapped. The Lightning have the league’s fifth-ranked power play.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers defeated the Lightning 4-2 on Sunday. Florida has now won four in a row. The Panthers have the NHL’s third-ranked power play.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

Guentzel-Point-Kucherov

Hagel-Cirelli-Geekie

Atkinson-Paul-Chaffee

Girgensons-Glendening-Eyssimont

Hedman-Raddysh

McDonagh-Cernak

Lilleberg-Perbix

Vasilevskiy

Johansson

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Tkachuk

Luostarinen-Lundell-Reinhart

Rodrigues-Bennett-Samoskevich

Greer-Nosek-Asplund

Forsling-Ekblad

Mikkola-Kulikov

Balinskis-Schmidt

Bobrovsky

Knight

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Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Nikita Kucherov has 14 goals and 34 assists for the Lightning. Jake Guentzel has scored nine goals with four assists over the past ten games.

Florida Panthers

Aleksander Barkov has ten goals and 23 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk has eight goals and eight assists over the last ten games. Sam Reinhart scored twice in Sunday’s win.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

D J.J. Moser – Day to day

Florida Panthers

C Jesper Boqvist – Day to day

Next Game

Tampa Bay Lightning – December 28 vs New York Rangers
Florida Panthers – December 28 vs Montreal Canadiens

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