{"id":540671,"date":"2026-04-04T18:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540671\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:02:24","slug":"nhl-game-preview-florida-panthers-at-pittsburgh-penguins-with-line-combinations-04-04-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540671\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Florida Panthers at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 04\/04\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHL<\/p>\n

(Photo by: Rebecca Blackwell-AP)<\/p>\n

Florida Panthers (37-35-3, 77 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (38-22-16, 92 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: PPG Paints Arena
Date: Saturday, April 4
Time: 5:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+, Scripps Sports
Radio:\u00a0560AM WQAM \/ 105.9 The X<\/p>\n

Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n

Florida Panthers News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Panther beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday night. In their last five games, Florida has a 2-3-0 record, scoring 2.6 goals per game while conceding three. The Panthers lost the first game of the season against the Penguins 5-3 back on October 23rd.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Penguins lost their last game to the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-3 on Thursday night. In their previous five games, Pittsburgh has a 3-2-0 record, scoring 4.6 goals per game while allowing 3.8. This will be the first of back-to-back games with the Panthers.<\/p>\n

Florida Panthers Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Verhaeghe-Bennett-Tkachuk
Samoskevich-Luostrarinen-Greer
Gregor-Nosek-Boqvist
Foote-Kunin-Hinostroza<\/p>\n

Forsling-Benning
Sebrango-Jones
Bjornfot-Hovorka<\/p>\n

Bobrovsky
Tarasov<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Chinakov-Crosby-Rust
Novak-Malkin-Rakell
Mantha-Kindel-Brazeau
Soderblom-Dewar-Acciari<\/p>\n

Wotherspoon-Karlsson
Girard-Letang
Shea-Clifton<\/p>\n

Silovs
Skinner<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Florida Panthers<\/p>\n

Mackie Samoskevich<\/a> had two assists in the Panthers 5-3 loss to the Penguins in their first meeting back on October 23rd.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

Sidney Crosby<\/a> had two goals and an assist in the Penguins\u2019 5-3 win over the Panthers on October 23rd.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Florida Panthers<\/p>\n

F Jonah Gadjovich \u2013 IR
F Aleksander Barkov \u2013 IR
F Brad Marchand \u2013 IR
F Anton Lundell \u2013 DTD
F Sam Reinhart \u2013 DTD
D Aaron Ekblad \u2013 OUT
F Evan Rodrigues \u2013 Out
D Dmitry Kulikov \u2013 OUT<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Filip Hallander<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
G\u00a0Joel Blomqvist<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
D\u00a0Jack St. Ivany<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n

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JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n

Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Rebecca Blackwell-AP) Florida Panthers (37-35-3, 77 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (38-22-16, 92 pts) Venue: PPG Paints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[803,91,245,254,257,247,2522,57,5,1610,98,250,251,4,5573,118,1469,100,5216,252,768],"class_list":{"0":"post-540671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-aaron-ekblad","9":"tag-aleksander-barkov","10":"tag-anton-lundell","11":"tag-brad-marchand","12":"tag-dmitry-kulikov","13":"tag-evan-rodrigues","14":"tag-filip-hallander","15":"tag-florida-panthers","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-jack-st-ivany","18":"tag-joel-blomqvist","19":"tag-jonah-gadjovich","20":"tag-mackie-samoskevich","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-nhl-game-preview","23":"tag-penguins","24":"tag-pittsburgh","25":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","26":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","27":"tag-sam-reinhart","28":"tag-sidney-crosby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116347755910535989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}