THE NEWS
Operations at Pucks and Palms were briefly affected by power outages caused from Hurricane Milton, but we are back.
Game coverage will go on as expected tonight.
— Chris Driedger and Mackenzie Entwistle were both sent to AHL Charlotte after clearing waivers on Wednesday.
— Spencer Knight was called up from AHL Charlotte.
— Sergei Bobrovsky will start for Florida while Linus Ullmark will start for Ottawa.
— Adam Boqvist made the trip to Ottawa, but will not play on Thursday night after taking a puck to the face. He skated on Thursday morning in a face shield, and per Jameson Olive, coach Paul Maurice feels good about him playing against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday.
— Tonight’s game will be locally broadcasted on Scripps Sports and the Panthers+ app. For more information on how to watch, visit floridapanthers.com/info/how-to-watch.
PANTHERS PROJECTED LINEUP
Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Evan Rodrigues — Sam Bennett — Matthew Tkachuk
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Mackie Samoskevich
Jonah Gadjovich — Jesper Boqvist — A.J. Greer
Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Uvis Balinskis — Nate Schmidt
Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight
Scratched: N/A
Injured: Tomas Nosek, Justin Sourdif, Adam Boqvist
(Lineup via Jameson Olive)
SENATORS PROJECTED LINEUP
Brady Tkachuk — Tim Stutzle — Claude Giroux
Ridley Grieg — Josh Norris — Drake Batherson
David Perron — Shane Pinto — Michael Amadio
Noah Gregor — Adam Gaudette — Nick Cousins
Jake Sanderson — Artem Zub
Thomas Chabot — Nick Jensen
Tyler Klevin — Travis Hamonic
Linus Ullmark
Anton Forsberg
(Lineup via the Ottawa Senators)