Lightning at Panthers

LIGHTNING (36-16-3) AT PANTHERS (36-14-5)

Lightning projected lineup
Ondrej Palat -- Brayden Point -- Alex Barre-Boulet
Alex Killorn -- Anthony Cirelli -- Ross Colton
Daniel Walcott -- Yanni Gourde -- Blake Coleman
Mitchell Stephens -- Tyler Johnson -- Mathieu Joseph
Mikhail Sergachev -- Erik Cernak
Fredrik Claesson -- David Savard
Luke Schenn -- Ben Thomas
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Curtis McElhinney
Scratched:Christopher Gibson, Gemel Smith
Injured:Steven Stamkos (lower body), Victor Hedman (lower body), Ryan McDonagh (upper body), Jan Rutta (lower body)
Suspended:Patrick Maroon
Panthers projected lineup
Carter Verhaeghe -- Aleksander Barkov -- Anthony Duclair
Jonathan Huberdeau -- Mason Marchment -- Owen Tippett
Frank Vatrano -- Alex Wennberg -- Aleksi Heponiemi
Ryan Lomberg -- Noel Acciari -- Grigori Denisenko
Gustav Forsling -- MacKenzie Weegar
Markus Nutivaara -- Anton Stralman
Keith Yandle -- Radko Gudas
Chris Driedger
Sergei Bobrovsky
Scratched:Kevin Connauton, Spencer Knight, Noah Juulsen, Nikita Gusev, Juho Lammikko, Matt Kiersted, Eetu Luostarinen, Lucas Wallmark, Patric Hornqvist
Injured:Sam Bennett (undisclosed), Brandon Montour (undisclosed)
Status report
The Lightning did not have a morning skate. … Maroon, a forward, received a one-game suspension from the NHL Department of Player Safety for unsportsmanlike conduct against the Panthers on Saturday. ... Verhaeghe will be back in the lineup after missing 13 games with an upper-body injury. … Panthers coach Joel Quenneville said that Bennett, a center, and Montour, a defenseman, are day-to-day. … Hornqvist will miss his seventh consecutive game, though Quenneville said the forward could have played against the Lightning on Saturday.