ORLANDO – The Florida Panthers will peer into the future when they continue their preseason with a neutral-site matchup against the rival Tampa Bay Lightning at Kia Center on Tuesday.

Deploying a lineup of mostly prospects, Panthers head coach Paul Maurice is looking to see how much the organization’s young players have learned during training camp.

“This will still be very scrambly, very sloppy, as all exhibition hockey is, but how can they apply our rules to the game they see in front of them?” Maurice said when asked about evaluating the team’s youngsters during the preseason.

With the majority of the team’s veterans not taking the ice until the final two games of the preseason, the prospects got the job done in a 4-3 overtime win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday.

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