The Boston Bruins welcome the Florida Panthers to TD Garden tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
7 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, NESN, SN, TVAS
Panthers Projected Lineup
Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Mackie Samoskevich — Sam Bennett — Evan Rodrigues
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Jesper Boqvist
A.J. Greer — Nico Sturm — Tomas Nosek
Gustav Forsling — Seth Jones
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Uvis Balinskis — Nate Schmidt
Sergei Bobrovsky
Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Jonah Gadjovich
Injured: Matthew Tkachuk (lower body), Brad Marchand (upper body)
Suspended: Aaron Ekblad
Status Report:
Ekblad, a defenseman, will begin serving a 20-game suspension issued Monday for violating the terms of the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program. … Marchand skated with the Panthers for the first time; the forward, acquired in a trade with the Bruins on Friday, is week to week. … Balinskis will enter the lineup after being scratched the past three games.
Latest from THW:
Bruins Projected Lineup
Morgan Geekie — Pavel Zacha — David Pastrnak
Cole Koepke — Casey Mittelstadt — Vinni Lettieri
Marat Khusnutdinov — Elias Lindholm — Jakub Lauko
John Beecher — Mark Kastelic — Patrick Brown
Nikita Zadorov — Henri Jokiharju
Mason Lohrei — Andrew Peeke
Parker Wotherspoon — Ian Mitchell
Jeremy Swayman
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched: None
Injured: Charlie McAvoy (shoulder), Hampus Lindholm (knee)
Status report:
The Bruins reassigned forward Matthew Poitras, a forward, to Providence of the American Hockey League on Monday.
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