Here are the projected lines for Thursday night's Sabres-Panthers matchup:

SABRES

Steve Ott - Cody Hodgson - Jason Pominville

Drew Stafford - Tyler Ennis - Ville Leino

Nathan Gerbe - Jochen Hecht - Patrick Kaleta

Marcus Foligno - Kevin Porter - Brian Flynn

Christian Ehrhoff - Mike Weber

Robyn Regehr - Tyler Myers

Jordan Leopold - Andrej Sekera

Scratched: LW John Scott, D Mark Pysyk

Injured: LW Thomas Vanek (upper body), D Alexander Sulzer (lower body)

PANTHERS

Tomas Fleischmann - Marcel Goc - Tomas Kopecky

Jonathan Huberdeau - Shawn Matthias - Peter Mueller

Scottie Upshall - Drew Shore - Mike Santorelli

Quinton Howden - Jerred Smithson - Greg Rallo

Brian Campbell - Tyson Strachan

TJ Brennan - Erik Gudbranson

Filip Kuba - Dmitry Kulikov

Jacob Markstrom

Scott Clemmensen

Scratched: D Colby Robak

Injured: RW Jack Skille (upper body), RW George Parros (upper body), LW Eric Selleck (upper body), D Ed Jovanovski (lower body), RW Kris Versteeg (knee), C Stephen Weiss (wrist), G Jose Theodore (lower body), D Mike Weaver (lower body), D Michael Caruso (upper body), LW Sean Bergenheim (lower body)