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Tampa Bay Lightning (20-13-3) at Florida Panthers (20-14-2)
Venue: Benchmark International Arena
Date: Saturday, December 27
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch: SCRIPPS, The Spot, ESPN+
Radio: 560 AM WQAM, 102.5 The Bone
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Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:
The Lighting have won two in a row heading into the break. Tampa Bay has the NHL’s third-best penalty kill at 84.3 percent.
Florida Panthers News & Notes:
The Panthers come out of the break winners of eight of their last ten games. Florida beat the Lightning 5-2 on December 15.
Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines
Gourde-Point-Kucherov
Guentzel-Paul-Bjorkstrand
Holmberg-Cirelli-Girgensons
Finley-James-Goncalves
Moser-Raddysh
McDonagh-D’Astous
Carlile-Crozier
Vasilevskiy
Johansson
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Florida Panthers Projected Lines:
Luostarinen-Lundell-Reinhart
Greer-Bennett-Marchand
Boqvist-Rodrigues-Verhaeghe
Gregor-Kunin-Studnicka
Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Petry-Balinskis
Bobrovsky
Tarasov
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Players To Watch:
Tampa Bay Lightning
Nikita Kucherov leads the Lightning with 45 points. Jake Guentzel is second on the club with 38 points.
Florida Panthers
Brad Marchand leads the Panthers with 41 points. Sam Reinhart is second on the team with 38 points.
Injury Report:
Tampa Bay Lightning
D Erik Cernak – OUT
D Emil Lilleberg – OUT
D Victor Hedman – IR
LW Brandon Hagel – Day to day
Florida Panthers
LW Matthew Tkachuk – IR
C Aleksander Barkov – LTIR
C Tomas Nosek – IR
D Dmitry Kulikov – IR
LW Jonah Gadjovich – Out
C Cole Schwindt – Out
RW Mackie Samoskevich – Day to day
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