GameDay 79: Lineups, Betting Odds for Lightning at Panthers
The Florida Panthers are going to play their final home game of the season on Sunday night. The Panthers have already clinched the Atlantic Division title and first place in the Eastern Conference. Tampa Bay Lightning will play the Panthers in their last game. Last year, the Lightning played two games in Sunrise and won both. Florida is going the be the top-seeded team in East.
Tampa Bay and Florida are going to play each other in the playoffs. Last year, Tampa Bay won in six games and went on to win its second consecutive Cup title. Florida set a franchise record with its 13th consecutive win on Saturday night. Tampa doesn't want to face the Panthers in first round.
Jonathan Huberdeau, Sasha Barkov, Anthony Duclair, Mason Marchment, Sam Bennett, Claude Giroux, Noel Acciari, Anton Lundell, Ryan Lomberg, Eetu Luostarinen, Patric Hornqvist, Ben Chiarot, MacKenzie Weegar, Gus Forsling, Brandon Montour, Radko Gudas, Spencer Knight, Sergei Bobrovsky are the projected Florida Panthers lineups.
Lucas Carlsson, Petteri Lindbohm, Joe Thornton, Maxim Mamin, Carter Verhaeghe, Marcus Nutivaara, Jonas Johansson and Aaron Ekblad were scratched.
Tampa Bay Lightning are expected to start with Nick Paul, 21 Brayden Point, 86 Nikita Kucherov, 18 Ondrej Palat, 91 Steven Stamkos, 79 Ross Colton, 38 Brandon Hagel, 71 Anthony Cirelli, 17 Alex Killorn, 14 Patrick Maroon, 10 Corey Perry, 24 Zach Bogosian, 27 Ryan McDonagh, 81 Erik Cernak, 98 Mikhail Sergachev, 52 Cal Foote.
