Florida Panthers: Game Preview, Lineups for Dec. 10 Game at Seattle Kraken

The Florida Panthers will put their six game point streak on the line on Tuesday night in Seattle.

The Florida Panthers have firmly gotten themselves out of their mid-November slog with a 5-1-0 stretch in their last five, but the will need to keep their legs under them as they begin a five game road trip out West.

That starts tonight against the Seattle Kraken.

“I think we got our legs back,” Florida coach Paul Maurice said. “I think we had a 10-day block where we were behind it. We weren’t really out of structure, we weren’t cheating the game, we just couldn’t get to the hits, couldn’t get to the passes and then because we lost a bunch of games we had that mental focus. … And then in our last six games we had a little bit of jump.”

Seattle is going to be a big test for a Florida team coming off of a cross-country flight.

The Kraken are winners of three of their past four games coming off of an East Coast road trip against four of the best teams in the Metropolitan Division. They sit three points out of the Western Conference playoff picture as of Tuesday afternoon.

“That will be the key tonight,“ Maurice said (of his team’s jump.) “They are a very, very quick team and we just got off a long plane ride. We had a morning skate and a time zone change, so we have to be ready to skate early this game.”

Seattle has two of the top 10 hottest scorers in the NHL since the calendar flipped to December and the team embarked on that four-game road trip out East.

Forward Oliver Bjorkstrand and defenseman Vince Dunn are both tied for seventh in that span in points. The former has three goals in this span while the latter has two. Two goals and four points of Bjorkstrand’s total game in a 7-5 track meet win over the struggling-but-talented New York Rangers on Sunday.

This is a Kraken team that has been competitive with some of the East’s best — nabbing a 4-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on the same trip — and the Panthers need to be prepared.

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THE NEWS

Sergei Bobrovsky will start in goal for the Panthers against the Kraken tonight. No changes will be made to Florida’s lineup from its 3-1 win over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.

Today’s game will air at 10:00 p.m. EST and will be broadcasted on Scripps Sports and the Panthers Plus app. It will also be available on ESPN+ for out-of-market viewers.

For more information on how to catch Panthers games this season, visit nhl.com/panthers/info/how-to-watch.

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PANTHERS PROJECTED LINEUP

Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart

Jesper Boqvist — Sam Bennett — Matthew Tkachuk

Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Evan Rodrigues

A.J. Greer — Tomas Nosek — Mackie Samoskevich

Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad

Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov

Nate Schmidt — Uvis Balinskis

Sergei Bobrovsky

Spencer Knight

Scratched: Adam Boqvist, Jonah Gadjovich

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SEATTLE KRAKEN PROJECTED LINEUP

Jaden Schwartz — Marty Beniers — Yanni Gourde

Jared McCann — Chandler Stephenson — Andre Burakovsky

Eeli Tolvanen — Shane Wright — Oliver Bjorkstrand

Tye Kartye — Mitchell Stephens — Brandon Tanev

Vince Dunn — Adam Larsson

Jamie Oleksiak — Brandon Montour

Ryker Evans — Will Borgen

Philipp Grubauer

Joey Daccord

(Lines via DailyFaceoff.com)

*Opposing team lines subject to change.