Tkachuk, Nosek Skate; Gadjovich Out vs. Golden Knights for Panthers
Florida Panthers forwards Matthew Tkachuk and
FORT LAUDERDALE — Florida Panthers forwards Matthew Tkachuk and Tomas Nosek both got some work in on the ice ahead of Saturday’s morning skate.
Tkachuk had been missing for the past week with an illness and is on track to return for Tuesday night’s game against the Minnesota Wild.
“He’s feeling better today, but he won’t play tonight,” coach Paul Maurice said. “Matthew skated this morning, felt really good, so we believe we’re on the timeline for Minnesota.”
Nosek skated for the first time since leaving the Panthers’ first preseason game of the year with an injury after taking a hard fall into the boards.
He was placed on LTIR before the start of the season and is expected to return when he becomes eligible to when Florida makes its trip up to Finland for the NHL’s Global Series in November.
“Nosek will be ready to go for Finland,” Maurice said.
Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov, also among the group that skated ahead Florida’s morning skate on Saturday morning.
Maurice said the captain is still on track to return to the lineup during next week’s trip to New York.
Jonah Gadjovich will be out of the lineup after something “tightened up on him” during the first period of Florida’s 3-2 overtime loss to Vancouver on Tuesday.
The Panthers will be forced to play a man short (10 forwards, seven defensemen) due to salary cap constraints, but will likely avoid needing to make an emergency recall on Tuesday with Tkachuk expected to return.
Sergei Bobrovsky will start in net on Saturday night against the Vegas Golden Knights.
THE NEWS
Today’s game will air at 6 p.m. EST on Scripps Sports and Panthers Plus. It will also be available for streaming on ESPN+ for those outside of the Panthers’ broadcast territory.
For more information on how to catch this afternoon’s game, visit nhl.com/panthers/info/how-to-watch.
PANTHERS PROJECTED LINEUP
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Sam Reinhart
Carter Verhaeghe — Sam Bennett — Evan Rodrigues
A.J. Greer — Jesper Boqvist — Mackie Samoskevich
Uvis Balinskis — Patrick Giles
Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Adam Boqvist — Nate Schmidt
Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight
Scratched: Matthew Tkachuk (illness)
Injured: Tomas Nosek (LTIR), Justin Sourdif (SOIR), Aleksander Barkov, Jonah Gadjovich
VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS PROJECTED LINEUP
Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Mark Stone
Tanner Pearson — Tomas Hertl — Pavel Porofeyev
Brendan Brisson — Cole Schwindt — Alexander Holtz
Brett Howden — Nicolas Roy — Keegan Kolesar
Shea Theodore — Alex Pietrangelo
Noah Hanifin — Nicolas Hague
Brayden McNabb — Zach Whitecloud
Adin Hill
Ilya Samsonov
Injured: William Karlsson, Victor Olofsson
(Golden Knights lines via DailyFaceoff.com)
Game tonight is at 6 EST!