Senators at Panthers: How to Watch, Lines, Goalies, Betting Odds

FORT LAUDERDALE — The Florida Panthers and Ottawa Senators have one more game before both teams take off for almost two weeks off for the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off.

The Panthers will not play their next game until Feb. 22 against Seattle; the Senators play host to Montreal that same night.

So, there is NHL hockey for one more night.

The Panthers will be without rookie forward Mackie Samoskevich after he left Thursday’s game in the second period in St. Louis.

Coach Paul Maurice said it was a precautionary decision; Samoskevich took part in the morning skate Saturday but stayed late on the ice.

Jonah Gadjovich gets back in tonight.

“We got him looked at yesterday and it was much better,’’ Maurice said. “He woke up much stronger than he was.’’

NOTES: SENATORS @ PANTHERS

• The Panthers will celebrate Black History Night with the team having “several activations including a live painter on plaza level” as well as a special drumline performance from The sound Check Group. The team will be selling Black History Night merchandise with player-signed jerseys available for auction on FlaPanthers.givesmart.com. The jerseys were designed by Miami artist Mwanel Pierre-Louis.
• Ottawa will again be without center Shane Pinto due to an injury sustained Tuesday in Tampa. The Senators will go 11-7 tonight.
• How to Watch: Tonight’s game is back on local TV. The game can also be streamed on Panthers+ locally and ESPN+ nationally. The game will also be part of Hockey Night in Canada which is why it is a 7 p.m. start instead of the usual 6 p.m. Saturday night time.
• Starting Goalies: The Panthers will have Sergei Bobrovsky back in net; Linus Ullmark starts for the Senators.
• NHL Betting Odds: The Panthers are favorites on the money line (-180) at the local book. To win with the Panthers, a $180 bet pays $100.

ON DECK: GAME No. 57

OTTAWA SENATORS at FLORIDA PANTHERS 

• When: Saturday, 7 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: WPOW 96.5-FM2; WBZT 1230-AM (Palm Beach); WCTH 100.3-FM (Florida Keys); SiriusXM
• Panthers Radio Streaming: SiriusXM 932, NHL App
• Betting Odds — Panthers Favored: Money Line (-180); Puck line (-1.5, +130); Over/Under 5.5 (-115/-105)
• Last Season: Panthers won 4-0
• This Season (Senators Lead 1-0) — At Ottawa: Senators 3, Panthers 1 (Oct 10); Ap. 5. At Florida: Saturday.
• All-time Regular Season Series: Ottawa leads 58-48-5, 3 ties
• Up Next for the Panthers: Feb. 22 vs. Seattle Kraken, 6 p.m.

PROJECTED FLORIDA PANTHERS (33-20-3) LINES

23 Carter Verhaeghe // 16 Sasha Barkov // 13 Sam Reinhart

17 Evan Rodrigues// 9 Sam Bennett // 19 Matthew Tkachuk

27 Eetu Luostarinen // 15 Anton Lundell // 70 Jesper Boqvist

10 A.J. Greer // 94 Tomas Nosek // 12 Jonah Gadjovich

42 Gus Forsling // 5 Aaron Ekblad

77 Niko Mikkola // 7 Dmitry Kulikov

88 Nate Schmidt // 26 Uvis Balinskis

72 Sergei Bobrovsky

30 Spencer Knight

Scratched: None

Injured: Mackie Samoskevich (upper body)

PROJECTED OTTAWA SENATORS (29-22-4) LINES

7 Brady Tkachuk // 71 Ridly Greig // 28 Claude Giroux

57 David Perron // 18 Tim Stutzle //22 Michael Amadio

15 Matthew Highmore // 38 Zack Ostapchuk // 19 Drake Batherson

51 Cole Reinhardt // 81 Adam Gaudette

85 Jake Sanderson // 2 Artem Zub

72 Thomas Chabot // 3 Nick Jensen

43 Tyler Kleven // 23 Travis Hamonic

// 33 Nikolas Matinpalo

35 Linus Ullmark

31 Anton Forsberg

Scratched: None

Injured: Josh Norris (undisclosed), Jacob Bernard-Docker (high ankle sprain), Noah Gregor (lower body), Nick Cousins (knee), Shane Pinto (upper body)

Ottawa Senators Lines Courtesy NHL.com