Sam Bennett will not be in the Florida Panthers lineup on Tuesday night against the New Jersey Devils.
Bennett appeared to be a late scratch for Florida after coach Paul Maurice initially told the media that there would be no lineup changes during Tuesday’s morning skate.
UPDATE: Per the Panthers, Bennett will miss tonight’s game due to an upper-body injury.
Mackie Samoskevich will draw in the lineup for Florida.
Bennett did not participate in the team’s optional skate on Tuesday morning and did not participate in warm-ups on Tuesday.
The team will run with the following lines when they look to extend their winning streak to eight games:
Rodrigues — Barkov — Reinhart
Verhaeghe — J. Boqvist — Tkachuk
Luostarinen — Lundell — Samoskevich
Greer — Nosek — Gadjovich
Forsling — Ekblad
Mikkola — Kulikov
Schmidt — Balinskis
Spencer Knight in net
This is a developing story which will be updated at a later time.