Panthers at Lightning

PANTHERS (10-2-2) at LIGHTNING (6-3-3)

Panthers projected lineup
Carter Verhaeghe -- Aleksander Barkov -- Anthony Duclair
Jonathan Huberdeau -- Sam Bennett -- Owen Tippett
Frank Vatrano -- Anton Lundell -- Sam Reinhart
Ryan Lomberg -- Eetu Luostarinen -- Patric Hornqvist
MacKenzie Weegar -- Aaron Ekblad
Gustav Forsling -- Radko Gudas
Lucas Carlsson
-- Brandon Montour
Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight
Scratched: Maxim Mamin, Kevin Connauton
Injured: Joe Thornton (undisclosed), Mason Marchment (upper body), Markus Nutivaara (undisclosed)
Lightning projected lineup
Ondrej Palat -- Brayden Point -- Anthony Cirelli
Alex Killorn -- Steven Stamkos -- Mathieu Joseph
Patrick Maroon -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Corey Perry
Taylor Raddysh -- Ross Colton --
Alex Barre-Boulet
Victor Hedman -- Jan Rutta
Ryan McDonagh -- Zach Bogosian
Mikhail Sergachev -- Cal Foote
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Brian Elliott
Scratched: Andrej Sustr, Boris Katchouk, Fredrik Claesson
Injured: Nikita Kucherov (lower body), Gemel Smith (lower body), Erik Cernak (upper body)
Status report
Thornton skated Saturday morning and Panthers coach Andrew Brunette said he hopes the forward could return next week. … Bogosian will be back in the lineup after missing the past 11 games with a lower-body injury. … Sergachev will be back after missing the past two games while serving his NHL suspension for an illegal hit to the head of Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner. … Cernak, a defenseman, is week to week after being injured in the first period of Tampa Bay's 2-1 overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday.