Panthers GameDay v Flames: How to Watch, Lines, Goalies, Odds

SUNRISE — The Florida Panthers and Calgary Flames will both be trying to put their last games behind them when they meet up this afternoon.

It’s Black Friday at Sawgrass Mills so, if you were planning on parking at the mall for today’s 4 p.m. start, hope you are already there.

The Panthers are coming off a 4-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers in which they dominated all facets of play yet gave up two weird goals in the second period — then the Flyers scored twice in the final minute.

The game-winning goal was set up when Tyson Foerster fired a shot off the shin or ankle of Aaron Ekblad.

When Ekblad hit the ice, the puck came right back to Foerster, he wound up and sent a shot through traffic that beat Sergei Bobrovsky.

Ekblad, coach Paul Maurice said Thursday, is fine and will play today.

Calgary was down 4-0 to the Tampa Bay Lightning just 10 minutes into Wednesday’s game on the other coast, eventually losing 5-1.

The Flames, with three former Panthers who are off to very slow starts, should have some extra jump in their skates today.

Just saw Jonathan Huberdeau, MacKenzie Weegar, and Ryan Lomberg coming into the arena and it was, as usual, homecoming day for those three as they stopped to talk with staffers and security folks on the walk to the locker room area.

The Panthers will not make any lineup changes after Maurice said Thursday there may be an illness or two the team is keeping an eye on.

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NOTEBOOK: FLAMES AT PANTHERS

• Starting Goalies: Daniil Tarasov will be back in net for the Panthers after stopping 36 shots against the Predators on Monday night. The Flames may go back with Devin Cooley after he relieved Dustin Wolf in the first period of Werdnesday’s rout in Tampa.
• How to Watch/Stream: The Panthers are on local television this afternoon. The game can be streamed locally on Panthers+ or nationally on ESPN+.
• NHL Betting Odds: The Panthers are pretty solid favorites (-190) on the money line at the local book. To win with the Panthers, a $190 bet pays $100.

ON DECK: GAME No. 23

CALGARY FLAMES at FLORIDA PANTHERS

• When: Friday, 4 p.m.
• Where: Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise
• Local TV: Scripps Sports — WSFL 39 (Miami/FtL); WHDT 9 (WPB); LAFF 36.3 (SWFla)
• Streaming: Panthers+, ESPN+
• Radio: WQAM; WBZT 1230-AM (Palm Beach); WCTH 100.3-FM (Florida Keys); SiriusXM
• Panthers Radio Streaming: SiriusXM 932, NHL App
• Local Betting Odds — Panthers Favored: MoneyLine (-190); Puck Line -1.5 (+130); O/U 5.5 (-120/+100)
• Last Season: Even 1-1 
• This Season — At Calgary: March 20. At Florida: Friday.
• All-Time Regular Season Series: Calgary leads 27-12-3, 3 ties
• Up Next for the Panthers: Tuesday vs. Toronto Maple Leafs, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN+)

PROJECTED FLORIDA PANTHERS (12-10-1) LINES

11 Mackie Samoskevich // 15 Anton Lundell // 63 Brad Marchand

10 A.J. Greer // 17 Evan Rodrigues // 13 Sam Reinhart

23 Carter Verhaeghe // 9 Sam Bennett // 70 Jesper Boqvist

18 Noah Gregor// 71 Luke Kunin // 38 Jack Devine

42 Gus Forsling // 5 Aaron Ekblad

77 Niko Mikkola // 3 Seth Jones

26 Uvis Balinskis // 2 Jeff Petry

40 Daniil Tarasov

72 Sergei Bobrovsky

Scratched: Donovan Sebrango

Injured: Eetu Luostarinen (lower body), Sasha Barkov (knee), Matthew Tkachuk (lower body), Tomas Nosek (knee), Dmitry Kulikov (shoulder), Jonah Gadjovich (upper body), Cole Schwindt (broken arm)

PROJECTED CALGARY FLAMES (8-14-3) LINES

10 Jonathan Huberdeau // 16 Morgan Frost // 27 Matt Coronato

17 Yegor Sharangovich // 91 Nazem Kadri // 86 Joel Farabee

47 Connor Zary // 11  Mikael Backlund // 20 Blake Coleman

70 Ryan Lomberg // 18 John Beecher // 43 Adam Klapka

7 Kevin Bahl // 4 Rasmus Andersson

37 Yan Kuznetsov // 52 MacKenzie Weegar

44 Joel Hanley // 94 Brayden Pachal

1 Devin Cooley

32 Dustin Wolf

Scratched: Jake Bean, Dryden Hunt, Sam Morton

Injured: Martin Pospisil (undisclosed), Zayne Parekh (upper body), Samuel Honzek (upper body)