NHL Game Preview: Toronto Maple Leafs at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 4/8/2025

Florida Panthers
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Toronto Maple Leafs (47-25-4, 98 Pts) at Florida Panthers (44-29-4, 92 Pts)
Venue: Amerant Bank Arena
Date: Tonight – April 8
Time: 7:00 pm EST

TV: ESPN
Radio:
Toronto
Florida – 560 AM WQAM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Toronto
-1.5 ML -120
Florida +1.5 ML +100
O/U 5.5

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Toronto Maple Leafs News & Notes:

The Maple Leafs have won four consecutive games after a 5-0 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday. The Leafs are 22-12-3 on the road this season. Toronto won the last matchup with Florida 3-2.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers have lost five straight games after a 2-1 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday. Florida has scored just seven goals during the losing streak. The Panthers are 9-11-2 against the Atlantic Division this season.

Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines

Knies-Matthews-Marner
McMann-Tavares-Nylander
Laughton-Domi-Jarnkrok
Lorentz-Holmberg-Robertson

Rielly-Carlo
Ekman-Larsson-Tanev
Benoit-Myers

Stolarz
Woll

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
Luostarinen-Lundell-Marchand
Puljujarvi-Rodrigues-Samoskevich
Greer-Nosek-Gadjovich

Mikkola-Jones
Forsling-Schmidt
Megna-Balinskis

Bobrovsky
Vanecek

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Players To Watch:

Toronto Maple Leafs

Mitch Marner has 24 goals and 70 assists for the Maple Leafs. John Tavares has scored nine goals and added five assists over the last ten games.

Florida Panthers

Carter Verhaeghe has 17 goals and 31 assists for the Panthers. Anton Lundell has registered 17 goals and 27 assists.

Injury Report:

Toronto Maple Leafs

LW Max Pacioretty – IR
Jani Hakanpaa – IR
D Jake McCabe – Day to day
C David Kampf – Day to day

Florida Panthers

RW Matthew Tkachuk – Week to week
D Aaron Ekblad – Suspension
C Nico Sturm – Day to day
D Dmitry Kulikov – Week to week
C Sam Bennett – Out for regular season

Next Game

Toronto Maple Leafs – April 9 at Tampa Bay Lightning
Florida Panthers – April 10 vs Detroit Red Wings

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