Projected Lines — Tonight
← Back Likely forward lines and defense pairings for every game, built shift-by-shift from the NHL's official timing feed: for each team we take the trios (and D pairs) that share the most ice over the last 7 game days and stack them best to worst — D1/D2 rows are the top defense pairings and the G row is tonight's projected starting goalie (violet = our model, green = club/league confirmed). These are projections, not announced lines — coaches confirm real ones at warm-up; nobody publishes them before that. Minutes shown are the trio's shared ice over the window. The Promotion Watch above is new: when a top-line name stops skating, we flag who takes over that line — a usage-based guess from real ice time, with its evidence on the card. ↑ marks a climbing player; a struck-through OUT row marks the vacated spot.
Promotion Watch — Underdogs One Line Away
season TOI rank #6F (18.6 min/g) → #1 over last 3 games (20.3 min/g) · with Dylan Larkin (season #1F) off the ice the last 3 games
Taking over for Dylan Larkin (no shifts in 3 games)
high confidence · DET · usage-based projection
first 3 NHL games this season at rank #4 usage (18.4 min/g)
medium confidence · PHI · usage-based projection
first 2 NHL games this season at rank #5 usage (15.3 min/g)
medium confidence · TBL · usage-based projection
season TOI rank #9F (14.8 min/g) → #4 over last 3 games (16.7 min/g)
medium confidence · TBL · usage-based projection
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VAN9:00 PM ET
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VGK10:00 PM ET