NHL Playoff Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 4/28/2025

NHL Playoff Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 4/28/2025

Tampa Bay Lightning (1-2-0) at Florida Panthers (2-1-0)

Venue: Amerant Bank Arena
Date: Monday, April 28
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN/Sportsnet/TVAS/FDSSUN/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Tampa Bay – 102.5 The Bone
Florida – 560 WQAM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Tampa Bay +1.5 ML +120
Florida -1.5 ML -142
O/U 5.5

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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning picked up a much-needed win on Saturday to get back into the series. Tampa Bay will look to even things up before returning home. They are averaging 2.3 goals per game in the series. Andrei Vasilevskiy is posting a 2.70 save percentage and a .890 save percentage.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers dropped a tough one on Saturday at home. Florida will look to make it a 3-1 series lead. They are now averaging three goals per game in the series. Sergei Bobrovsky this series, is posting a 2.01 goals-against average and a .903 save percentage.

Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines

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

Hedman-Moser
McDonagh-Cernak
Lilleberg-Perbix

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

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

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Schmidt-Kulikov

Bobrovsky
Vanecek

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Players To Watch:

Tampa Bay Lightning

Jake Guentzel this season had 80 points on 41 goals and 39 assists. He has two goals and two assists so far in this series. In four games against the Panthers in the regular season, he had a point in every game recording two goals and two assists.

Florida Panthers

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

Injury Report:

Tampa Bay Lightning

RW Oliver Bjorkstrand – Out
LW Brandon Hagel – Out

Florida Panthers

None

Next Game

Game 5: Wednesday, April 30 at Amalie Arena

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