Match-up- Panthers (25-17-11 - 61 points) @ Devils (31-19-4 - 66 points)
TV - Fox-Sports Florida, MSG Plus 2
Puck drop - 1:00 PM ET
Season series - Devils lead 2-1
Last 10: Florida 4-3-3 / New Jersey 6-2-2
Projected starting goalies - Scott Clemmensen (FLA) vs. Martin Brodeur (NJ)
Battle of the stats
Goals for/against per game
Florida - 2.47 / 2.72
New Jersey - 2.67 / 2.76
Powerplay/Penalty Kill percentage
Florida - 18.5% / 80.5%
New Jersey - 16.7% / 88.8%
Here are the projected lines (subject to change) for the Panthers:
Panthers lines courtesy of Dailyfaceoff.com
Tomas Fleischmann - Stephen Weiss - Kris Versteeg
Sean Bergenheim - Marcel Goc - Mikael Samuelsson
Mike Santorelli - Shawn Matthias - Tomas Kopecky
Matt Bradley - John Madden - Krys Barch
Brian Campbell - Erik Gudbranson
Jason Garrison - Mike Weaver
Tyson Strachan - Keaton Ellerby
Here are the projected lines (subject to change) for the Devils:
Zach Parise - Patrik Elias - Ilya Kovalchuk
Petr Sykora - Dainius Zubrus - David Clarkson
Alexei Ponikarovsky - Adam Henrique - Steve Bernier
Eric Boulton - Jacob Josefson - Cam Janssen
Bryce Salvador - Matt Taormina
Anton Volchenkov - Kurtis Foster
Andy Greene - Mark Fayne
Notes: Martin Brodeur will start...Adam Larsson will continue to sit with a lower-back injury...Ryan Carter has been placed on IR and will obviously sit.
Panthers to watch out for:
Kris Versteeg - He's been fantastic against New Jersey this season. In three games against the Devils he has five points (4G, 1A).
Stephen Weiss - After a great start to the season, he has really slowed down as of late. In Weiss' last 14 games he has just five points (2G, 3A).
Sean Bergenheim - After a bad start to the season Bergenheim has been playing great hockey as of late. He has five points (3G, 2A) in his last five games and has earned himself a spot in the top-six; at least for now.
Devils to watch out for:
Patrik Elias - He's been absolutely lights out as of late as he has points in 14 of his last 15 games. In that span he has 19 points (6G, 13A).
Petr Sykora - He only has one point in his last eight games; however, it came in his last game. Sykora is known to be a streaky scorer so perhaps a good run is coming.
Alexei Ponikarovsky - He has six points (1G, 5A) in his last five games.
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