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Florida Panthers (29-24-3, 61 pts)at Tampa Bay Lightning (36-14-4, 76 pts)

Venue: Benchmark International Arena
Date: Thursday, February 5
Time: 7:30 pm EST
How To Watch: ESPN+/Hulu
Radio: 560AM WQAM/96.5 FM/102.5 FM The Bone

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Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers are coming off a 5-4 shootout win over the Bruins last night. The win snapped a four-game skid. It was a much needed win a Florida looks to build some momentum heading into the Olympic Break.

Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning picked up their fourth straight win with a 4-3 overtime victory over the Sabres on Tuesday. They’ve won seven of their last eight games, averaging 3.9 goals per game while allowing 2.5 goals per game. They’ve also recorded points in 20 of their last 21 games.

Florida Panthers Projected Lines:

Verhaeghe-Lundell-Reinhart
Luostarinen-Bennett-Tkachuk
Greed-Rodrigues-Marchand
Vilmanis-Schwindt-Samoskevich

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Balinskis
Bjornfot-Petry

Tarasov
Bobrovsky

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Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:

Hagel-Guentzel-Kucherov
Bjorkstrand-James-Goncalves
Girgensons-Gourde-Holmberg
Douglas-Finley-Sabourin

Moser-Raddysh
McDonagh-Cernak
Hedman-Carlile

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Players To Watch:

Florida Panthers

Sam Reinhart has a point in all three games against Tampa Bay this season with tw goals and two assists.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Nikita Kucherov has a point in two of the three games against the Panthers this season with two goals and an assist.

Injury Report:

Florida Panthers

D Seth Jones – IR
F Jonah Gadjovich – IR
F Aleksander Barkov – IR
D Dmitry Kulikov – IR
F Tomas Nosek – Out

Tampa Bay Lightning

D Charle-Edouard D’Astous – IR
F Nick Paul – DTD
F Anthony Cirelli – DTD
C Brayden Point – IR
D Emil Lilleberg – IR

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