Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida PanthersDec 26, 2026

Time TBDSaturday, Dec 26, 2026

away

Tampa Bay LightningTBL

at

home

Florida PanthersFLA

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Probable goalies, start odds, schedule edge and each team's lines from its last game.

Schedule Edge

No schedule edge

TBLaway±0.0 pts

3 days rest · 289 km travel

3 days rest vs 4 days rest

FLAhome±0.0 pts

4 days rest

4 days rest vs 3 days rest

No meaningful schedule edge: TBL (3 days rest) at FLA (4 days rest).

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Tampa Bay Lightning

Goalie: Starter not announced
Start probability: Andrei Vasilevskiy90%
Dennis Hildeby10%
Schedule: Rested
Last game: L 1–5 at NYR · Oct 1

L1Guentzel – Cirelli – Hagel
8:05
L2Kucherov – Point – Mikheyev
6:58
L3Harkins – Goncalves – Geekie
5:04
L4Girgensons – Viel – Holmberg
4:59
D1McDonagh – Cernak
11:26
D2Hedman – D'Astous
11:01
D3Carlson – Moser
9:29
PP1Carlson – Kucherov – Guentzel – Point – Hagel
7:18

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Florida Panthers

Goalie: Starter not announced
Start probability: Jacob Markstrom76%
Akira Schmid24%
Schedule: Rested
Last game: OTL 3–4 at SJS · Oct 1

L1Verhaeghe – Bennett – Tkachuk
11:12
L2Luostarinen – Lundell – Vilmanis
8:16
L3Eller – Reinhart – Tkachuk
5:58
L4Barkov – Hathaway – Imama
0:17
D1Jones – Mikkola
14:51
D2Kulikov – Ekblad
10:16
D3Gudas – Balinskis
8:44
PP1Jones – Reinhart – Tkachuk – Tkachuk – Lundell
5:24

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Game day: all games on Dec 26.

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Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.