Florida Panthers vs Tampa Bay Lightning — Sep 24, 2026

Who is unavailable, in each club’s own words to the league. A day-to-day designation still allows a start, so a name here is not always a scratch; an injured-list stint is.

Florida Panthers5 listed

Brad MarchandLW · is listed injured reserve. Back 2026-10-10.

Radko GudasD · is out. Back 2026-09-15.

Jacob MarkstromG · is out. Back 2026-09-15.

Carter VerhaegheCatcher · is out. Back 2026-09-15.

Sam BennettCatcher · is out. Back 2026-09-15.

Tampa Bay Lightning1 listed

Pontus HolmbergRW · is out. Back 2026-09-15.

Each club's active roster, as filed with ESPN. Nobody posts a projected line for this sport, so this is the group available to play, sorted by position.

Florida Panthers37 players

Forwards21

16Aleksander Barkov6' 3"30 yrs13 yr

John Beecher6' 3"25 yrs3 yr

9Sam Bennett6' 1"30 yrs11 yrOut

Lars Eller6' 2"37 yrs16 yr

71Luke Kunin6' 0"28 yrs9 yr

Sam Lafferty6' 2"31 yrs7 yr

15Anton Lundell6' 1"24 yrs5 yr

27Eetu Luostarinen6' 3"27 yrs6 yr

13Sam Reinhart6' 1"30 yrs11 yr

23Carter Verhaeghe6' 2"31 yrs7 yrOut

Angus Crookshank5' 10"26 yrs2 yr

12Jonah Gadjovich6' 3"27 yrs5 yrInjured Reserve

Bokondji Imama6' 1"30 yrs2 yr

63Brad Marchand5' 9"38 yrs17 yrInjured Reserve

92Tomas Nosek6' 3"33 yrs10 yr

29Cole Reinhardt6' 1"26 yrs2 yr

7Brady Tkachuk6' 4"26 yrs8 yr

19Matthew Tkachuk6' 2"28 yrs10 yr

95Sandis Vilmanis6' 1"22 yrsRookie

Garnet Hathaway6' 2"34 yrs11 yr

79Cole Schwindt6' 2"25 yrs2 yr

Defensemen13

26Uvis Balinskis6' 0"30 yrs3 yrOut

20Mike Benning5' 9"24 yrsRookie

Tobias Bjornfot6' 0"25 yrs5 yr

5Aaron Ekblad6' 4"30 yrs12 yr

42Gustav Forsling6' 1"30 yrs9 yrOut

7Radko Gudas6' 0"36 yrs14 yrOut

96Mikulas Hovorka6' 6"25 yrsRookie

3Seth Jones6' 4"31 yrs13 yrOut

7Dmitry Kulikov6' 1"35 yrs17 yrOut

77Niko Mikkola6' 6"30 yrs6 yrInjured Reserve

Alexander Petrovic6' 5"34 yrs6 yr

79Emil Pieniniemi6' 2"21 yrsRookie

6Donovan Sebrango6' 2"24 yrsRookie

Goaltenders3

31Cooper Black6' 8"25 yrsRookie

Jacob Markstrom6' 6"36 yrs13 yrOut

40Akira Schmid6' 5"26 yrs3 yr

Tampa Bay Lightning33 players

Forwards16

26Nick Abruzzese5' 10"27 yrsRookie

71Anthony Cirelli6' 1"29 yrs9 yr

14Conor Geekie6' 4"22 yrs2 yr

28Zemgus Girgensons6' 3"32 yrs12 yr

93Gage Goncalves6' 1"25 yrs2 yr

37Yanni Gourde5' 9"34 yrs10 yr

59Jake Guentzel5' 11"31 yrs10 yr

Jansen Harkins6' 1"29 yrs7 yr

17Dominic James6' 0"24 yrsRookie

21Brayden Point5' 11"30 yrs10 yr

38Brandon Hagel6' 2"28 yrs6 yr

Jeffrey Viel6' 1"29 yrs3 yr

29Pontus Holmberg6' 0"27 yrs4 yrOut

86Nikita Kucherov6' 0"33 yrs12 yr

Ilya Mikheyev6' 2"31 yrs7 yr

46Scott Sabourin6' 3"34 yrs2 yr

Defensemen10

Michael Callahan6' 2"26 yrs2 yr

74John Carlson6' 3"36 yrs17 yr

81Erik Cernak6' 4"29 yrs8 yr

24Maxwell Crozier6' 3"26 yrs2 yr

51Charle-Edouard D'Astous6' 2"28 yrsRookie

52Maxim Groshev6' 2"24 yrsRookie

77Victor Hedman6' 7"35 yrs17 yr

78Emil Lilleberg6' 3"25 yrs3 yr

27Ryan McDonagh6' 1"37 yrs16 yr

90J.J. Moser6' 2"26 yrs5 yr

Goaltenders7

Dennis Hildeby6' 7"25 yrsRookie

31Jonas Johansson6' 5"30 yrs5 yr

30Kyle Konin6' 0"28 yrsRookie

1Harrison Meneghin6' 3"21 yrsRookie

Olivier Rodrigue6' 1"26 yrsRookie

Mads Sogaard6' 7"25 yrs2 yr

88Andrei Vasilevskiy6' 4"32 yrs12 yr