PANTHERS (5-2-2) at SENATORS (6-3-0)
7:30 p.m. ET; Prime, SCRIPPS
Panthers projected lineup
Brady Tkachuk -- Sam Bennett -- Matthew Tkachuk
Carter Verhaeghe -- Sam Reinhart -- Lars Eller
Eetu Luostarinen -- Anton Lundell -- Sandis Vilmanis
Bokondji Imama -- Cole Schwindt -- Garnet Hathaway
Gustav Forsling -- Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola -- Seth Jones
Dmitry Kulikov -- Radko Gudas
Akira Schmid
Cooper Black
Scratched: Uvis Balinskis
Injured: Jacob Markstrom (upper body), Aleksander Barkov (knee), Brad Marchand (knee), Jonah Gadjovich (neck)
Senators projected lineup
Fabian Zetterlund -- Tim Stutzle -- Claude Giroux
Warren Foegele -- Dylan Cozens -- Drake Batherson
Ridly Greig -- Shane Pinto -- Michael Amadio
Nick Cousins -- Stephen Halliday -- Hayden Hodgson
Jake Sanderson -- Artem Zub
Tyler Kleven -- Jordan Spence
Nikolas Matinpalo -- Carter Yakemchuk
Linus Ullmark
Samuel Ersson
Scratched: Cameron Crotty, Andre Burakovsky
Injured: William Eklund (ankle), Kurtis MacDermid (upper body), Thomas Chabot (upper body)
Status report
Brady Tkachuk will play his first game in Ottawa since the Panthers acquired him in a trade with the Senators on June 21. ... Markstrom is out 1-2 weeks; the goalie was injured during practice Monday; Schmid will start and Black, recalled from Charlotte of the American Hockey League along with Schwindt on Tuesday, will back up. ... Gudas will return after missing three games with a lower-body injury. ... Sanderson will return after missing eight games; the defenseman sustained a lower-body injury in a season-opening 3-2 win at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Oct. 3. ... Hodgson will replace Burakovsky, a forward.
