NHL Playoff Preview: Florida Panthers at Tampa Bay Lightning with Line Combinations 4/30/2025

NHL Playoff Preview: Florida Panthers at Tampa Bay Lightning with Line Combinations 4/30/2025

Tampa Bay Lightning (1-3-0) at Florida Panthers (3-1-0)

Venue: Amalie Arena
Date: Wednesday, April 30
Time: 7:30 pm EST
TV: ESPN2/TVAS2/FDSNSUN/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Florida – 560 WQAM
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Florida +1.5 ML +100
Tampa Bay -1.5 ML -120
O/U 5.5

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Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers took a 3-1 series lead with a 4-2 win on Monday night. They will look to end the series tonight on the road. Sergei Bobrovsky this series, is posting a 2.01 goals-against average and a .902 save percentage.

Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning enter this game needing a win to continue their season. They need their super star in Nikita Kucherov to step up as he has yet to find the back of the net in this series. Andrei Vasilevskiy is posting a 2.79 save percentage and a .884 save percentage.

Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
Rodrigues-Bennett-Tkachuk
Luostarinen-Lundell-Marchand
Greer-Sturm-Boqvist

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Schmidt-Kulikov

Bobrovsky
Vanecek

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Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

Guentzel-Point-Kucherov
Hagel-Cirelli-Raddysh
Gourde-Paul-Goncalves
Girgensons-Glendening-Chaffee

Hedman-Moser
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Players To Watch:

Florida Panthers

Anton Lundell this season had 57 points on 22 goals and 35 assists. He has three goals and an assist in the series. In three meetings in the regular season, he finished with an assist.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Nikita Kucherov this season had 121 points on 37 goals and 84 assists. He has four assists so far in this series. In four games against the Panthers in the regular season, he had two goals and an assist.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

RW Oliver Bjorkstrand – Out

Florida Panthers

None

Next Game

Game 6: Friday, May 2 at Amerant Bank Arena (If Neccasary)

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