Florida Panthers (1-0-0) at Tampa Bay Lightning (0-1-0)
Venue: Amalie Arena
Date: Tuesday, April 22
Time: 8:30 pm EST
TV: TBS/truTV/SN360/FDSSUN/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Florida – 560 WQAM
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone
DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Florida +1.5 ML +102
Tampa Bay -1.5 ML -122
O/U 5.5
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Florida Panthers News & Notes:
The Panthers started the series off with a 6-2 win. They are looking to take a 2-0 series lead before they head back home for game three. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 20 of the 22 shots he faced in Tuesday night’s win.
Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:
The Lightning look to even the series before they hit the road for games three and four. Despite losing 6-2, they outshot Florida 22-16 on Tuesday. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped ten of the 16 shots he faced.
Florida Panthers Projected Lines
Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
Samoskevich-Bennett-Tkachuk
Luostarinen-Lundell-Marchand
Boqvist-Sturm-Rodrigues
Forsling-Jones
Mikkola-Kulikov
Schmidt-Balinskis
Bobrovsky
Vanecek
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Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines
Gourde-Point-Kucherov
Hagel-Cirelli-Guentzel
Geekie-Paul-Goncalves
Girgensons-Glendening-Raddysh
Hedman-Moser
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix
Vasilevskiy
Johansson
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Players To Watch:
Florida Panthers
Matthew Tkachuk this season had 57 points on 22 goals and 35 assists. He returned to the Panthers’ lineup in game one and made a statement, scoring two goals and adding an assist. In two games against the Lightning in the regular season, he had just an assist and finished as a minus-two.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Jake Guentzel this season had 80 points on 41 goals and 39 assists. He had one of the Lightning’s two goals on Tuesday. This season against Florida, in four games, he had a point per game, recording two goals and two assists. Guentzel was even in plus/minus against the Panthers.
Injury Report:
Florida Panthers
D Aaron Ekblad – Out (Suspension)
Tampa Bay Lightning
RW Oliver Bjorkstrand – Out
Next Game
Game 3: Saturday, April 26 at Amerant Bank Arena
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