Maple Leafs at Lightning

MAPLE LEAFS (15-5-5) at LIGHTNING (14-8-1)

Maple Leafs projected lineup
Michael Bunting -- Auston Matthews -- William Nylander
Nicholas Robertson -- John Tavares -- Mitch Marner
Alex Kerfoot -- Pontus Holmberg -- Pierre Engvall
Zach Aston-Reese -- David Kampf -- Wayne Simmonds
Mark Giordano -- Justin Holl
Rasmus Sandin -- Timothy Liljegren
Victor Mete -- Mac Hollowell
Matt Murray
Ilya Samsonov
Scratched: Denis Malgin, Connor Timmins
Injured: Jake Muzzin (neck), TJ Brodie (oblique), Jordie Benn (upper body), Morgan Rielly (lower body), Calle Jarnkrok (groin)
Lightning projected lineup
Brandon Hagel -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov
Steven Stamkos -- Nick Paul -- Alex Killorn
Vladislav Namestnikov -- Anthony Cirelli -- Ross Colton
Pat Maroon
-- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Corey Perry
Victor Hedman -- Mikhail Sergachev
Ian Cole -- Erik Cernak
Zach Bogosian -- Nick Perbix
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Brian Elliott
Scratched: Cal Foote, Haydn Fleury
Injured: Rudolfs Balcers (upper body)
Status report
Cirelli will make his season debut after having offseason shoulder surgery. … Simmonds will play after being a healthy scratch the past three games. ... Jarnkrok, a forward, will miss at least two weeks with a groin injury sustained in a 3-1 win against the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday. ... Lightning defenseman Philippe Myers was reassigned to Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Saturday.