NHL Playoff Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 4/26/2025

NHL Playoff Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 4/26/2025

Tampa Bay Lightning (0-2-0) at Florida Panthers (2-0-0)

Venue: Amerant Bank Arena
Date: Saturday, April 26
Time: 1:00 pm EST
TV: TBS/truTV/Sportsnet/FDSNSUN/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone
Florida – 560 WQAM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Tampa Bay +1.5 ML +114
Florida -1.5 ML -135
O/U 5.5

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning are looking to avoid going down 3-0 in the series. Andrei Vasilevskiy is posting a 3.56 save percentage and a .821 save percentage.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers are averaging four goals per game while allowing a goal per game to start the series. With the Panthers returning home up 2-0, they have a solid chance of taking complete control of this series, more so than they already have. Sergei Bobrovsky this series, is posting a 1.00 goals-against average and a .951 save percentage.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

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

Hedman-Moser
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

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

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Balinskis-Kulikov

Bobrovsky
Vanecek

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Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Nikita Kucherov this season had 121 points on 37 goals and 84 assists. He had an assist in game one. In four games against the Panthers in the regular season, he had two goals and an assist. He was a plus-three in those games.

Florida Panthers

Sam Bennett this season had 51 points on 25 goals and 26 assists. He has two goals and an assist through two games to start the series. In four games in the regular season, he was held pointless and was a minus-three.

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

RW Oliver Bjorkstrand – Out

Florida Panthers

F Aleksander Barkov – Game Time Decision

Next Game

Game 4: Monday, April 28 at Amerant Bank Arena


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