Florida Panthers: Lines, Updates, Preview for March 15 Game vs. Montreal Canadiens
The Florida Panthers seek their eighth win in their past nine games against a hot and hungry Montreal Canadiens team.
The Florida Panthers will be looking to keep the good times rolling as they seek their eighth win in their past nine games when they visit the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre.
Florida secured one of its biggest wins of the season on Thursday night — defeating the Maple Leafs 3-2 to jump four points ahead of them for first place in the Atlantic Division — but the Panthers have their work cut out for them yet again on Saturday night.
Montreal sits one point behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference and comes into the night with a 6-2-2 record in their past 10 games.
“It’s going to be great,” A.J. Greer said. “You know the building is going to be lively. For us, we’re coming off of a big win, so we can’t dip down to any level. We gotta stick to what we do best and I think that level of competitiveness and that level of drive is what is going to come out tonight, whether we want it or not.”
THE NEWS
Sergei Bobrovsky will start in net for the Panthers tonight.
Tonight’s game will start at 7:00 p.m. EST and will be broadcasted on Scripps Sports and Panthers Plus. Out-of-market viewers in the United States can stream the game on ESPN+.
For more information on how to catch Panthers games this season, visit nhl.com/panthers/info/how-to-watch.
FLORIDA PANTHERS PROJECTED LINEUP
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Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Mackie Samoskevich — Sam Bennett — Evan Rodrigues
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Jesper Boqvist
A.J. Greer — Nico Sturm — Jonah Gadjovich
Gustav Forsling — Seth Jones
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Nate Schmidt — Uvis Balinskis
Sergei Bobrovsky
Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Tomas Nosek
Suspended: Aaron Ekblad
Injured: Matthew Tkachuk (LTIR), Brad Marchand (upper-body injury)
MONTREAL CANADIENS PROJECTED LINEUP
Cole Caufield — Nick Suzuki — Juraj Slafkovsky
Joshua Roy — Alex Newhook — Brendan Gallagher
Patrik Laine — Christian Dvorak — Josh Anderson
Emil Heineman — Jake Evans — Michael Pezzetta
Mike Matheson — Alexandre Carrier
Jayden Struble — Lane Hutson
Arber Xhekaj — David Savard
Samuel Montembeault
Jakub Dobes
(Lines via DailyFaceoff.com)
*Opposing team lines subject to change.