Panthers at Lightning preview

PANTHERS (8-7-3) at LIGHTNING (14-6-1)
7:30 p.m. ET; SUN, FS-F, NHL.TV

The Panthers forward has 19 points (nine goals, 10 assists) in a 16-game point streak, his longest in the NHL. Florida is 1-2-0 in its past three games following a five-game winning streak.
The Panthers will be without center Vincent Trocheck, out indefinitely after having surgery to repair a fractured ankle. He was injured in the first period of a 7-5 win at the Ottawa Senators on Monday.
Goalie Louis Domingue will start for the Lightning, who are 2-1-0 in their past three games and 6-3-0 in their past nine.

Players to Watch

Panthers forward Evgenii Dadonov has 17 points (nine goals, eight assists) in his past 16 games, with points in 15 of them.
Lightning center Brayden Point has seven points (five goals, two assists) in a three-game multipoint streak.

They said it

"It's never easy losing a guy like [Trocheck]. We thought a lot about the lines and combinations and who should play with who. Bottom line is you're never going to replace him, but there going to be some opportunities for guys to get a lot more ice time." -- Panthers coach Bob Boughner
"We're excited to be back home. I don't think we played our best hockey on the road so we'll look to sort some things out here and just get back to winning." -- Lightning center Steven Stamkos

Panthers projected lineup

Evgenii Dadonov -- Aleksander Barkov -- Mike Hoffman
Jonathan Huberdeau -- Jared McCann -- Nick Bjugstad
Dryden Hunt -- Juho Lammikko -- Frank Vatrano
Micheal Haley -- Colton Sceviour -- Troy Brouwer
Mike Matheson -- Aaron Ekblad
Keith Yandle -- Alexander Petrovic
Mark Pysyk -- MacKenzie Weegar
Roberto Luongo
James Reimer
Scratched:Denis Malgin , Bogdan Kiselevich
Injured: Vincent Trocheck (ankle surgery), Derek MacKenzie (upper body)

Lightning projected lineup

J.T. Miller -- Steven Stamkos -- Nikita Kucherov
Yanni Gourde -- Brayden Point -- Tyler Johnson
Alex Killorn -- Anthony Cirelli -- Mathieu Joseph
Adam Erne -- Cedric Paquette -- Ryan Callahan
Victor Hedman -- Dan Girardi
Ryan McDonagh -- Mikhail Sergachev
Braydon Coburn -- Slater Koekkoek
Louis Domingue
Edward Pasquale
Scratched:Danick Martel, Erik Cernak
Injured: Ondrej Palat (lower body), Anton Stralman (upper body), Andrei Vasilevskiy (left foot fracture)

Status report

Palat and Stralman each participated in the morning skate but Cooper ruled them out for Wednesday. ... Paquette is expected to return after missing one game. ... Hoffman will move to the first power-play unit, Boughner said.

Stat pack

Barkov has eight points (four goals, four assists) in his past seven games. ... Yandle has 10 points (three goals, seven assists) in his past 11 games. ... Huberdeau is one goal from 100 in the NHL. … Kucherov has 10 points (three goals, seven assists) in his past seven games. … Gourde has eight points (four goals, four assists) in his past nine games.