NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 3/3/2025

Tampa Bay Lightning (35-20-4, 74 Pts) at Florida Panthers (37-21-3, 77 Pts)

Venue: Amerant Bank Arena
Date: Monday, March 3
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN+/FDSN SUN/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone
Florida – 560 WQAM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Tampa Bay +1.5 ML +118
Florida -1.5 ML -143
O/U 6.5

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning won their eighth straight on Saturday in a 3-1 win over the Washington Capitals. They also have points in their last ten straight games. During the win streak they’ve scored an average of 4.25 goals per game while allowing 1.63 goals per game.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers have a win streak of three games after Saturday’s 3-0 shutout win over the Calgary Flames. They’ve also won eight of their last ten. In that ten game stretch they’ve are averaging 3.70 goals per game while allowing 1.90 goals per game.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

Guentzel-Point-Kucherov
Hagel-Cirelli-Girgensons
Chaffee-Paul-Goncalves
Eyssimont-Glendening-Perbix

Hedman-Moser
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Raddysh

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
Samoskevich-Bennett-Rodrigues
Luostarinen-Lundell-Boqvist
Greer-Nosek-Gadjovich

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Schmidt-Kulikov

Bobrovsky
Driedger

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Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Victor Hedman this season has 47 points on nine goals and 38 assists. He’s faced the Panthers 66 times in his career recording 48 points on seven goals and 41 assists; in the two meetings this season he’s recorded three assists.

Florida Panthers

Sam Reinhart this season has 64 points on 31 goals and 33 assists. He’s faced the Lightning 33 times in his career recording 25 points on 18 goals and seven assists; in two meetings this season he has two goals.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

None

Florida Panthers

F Matthew Tkachuk – Out

Next Game

Tampa Bay – March 4 vs. Columbus Blue Jackets
Florida – March 6 vs. Columbus Blue Jackets

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