The Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

7:45 p.m. ET; The Spot, FDSNSO, TVAS

Lightning projected lineup

Jake Guentzel — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Curtis Douglas
Oliver Bjorkstrand — Dominic James — Gage Goncalves
Zemgus Girgensons — Yanni Gourde — Pontus Holmberg

Victor Hedman — J.J. Moser
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg — Charle-Edouard D’Astous

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Scratched: Jack Finley, Darren Raddysh

Injured: Max Crozier (lower body), Nick Paul (upper body)

Status report

Raddysh will miss the game because of the birth of his child.

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Predators projected lineup

Filip Forsberg — Ryan O’Reilly — Matthew Wood
Tyson Jost — Steven Stamkos — Jonathan Marchessault
Michael Bunting — Erik Haula — Luke Evangelista
Cole Smith — Michael McCarron — Ozzy Wiesblatt

Adam Wilsby — Nicholas Hague
Brady Skjei — Nick Perbix
Spencer Stastney — Justin Barron

Juuse Saros
Justus Annunen

Scratched: Nick Blankenburg, Fedor Svechkov

Injured: Roman Josi (upper body)

Status report

Stamkos will play at center for the second game in a row after starting the season at left wing.

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