Florida Panthers vs Tampa Bay Lightning ({{ match.playoffgame.series.round.name }} - Game 1)

Team Context

Home context · Tampa Bay Lightning

Best Scorer

Nikita Kucherov with 3

Most Assists

Brandon Hagel with 7

Last Five W L OT/SO

Away context · Florida Panthers

Best Scorer

Carter Verhaeghe with 3

Most Assists

Aleksander Barkov with 3

Last Five W L OT/SO

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Stats

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Goals

Shots

PPG

Hits

PIM

Panthers Goals

Sam Bennett (1st • 03:44)

Assisted by Mackie Samoskevich

Sam Reinhart (1st • 19:15)

Assisted by Dmitry Kulikov , Carter Verhaeghe

Nate Schmidt (2nd • 04:41)

Assisted by Brad Marchand , Sam Bennett

Matthew Tkachuk PP (2nd • 04:55)

Assisted by Sam Reinhart , Aleksander Barkov

Matthew Tkachuk PP (2nd • 09:44)

Unassisted

Nate Schmidt PP (3rd • 05:09)

Assisted by Matthew Tkachuk , Aleksander Barkov

Lightning Goals

Jake Guentzel PP (1st • 12:21)

Assisted by Nikita Kucherov , Victor Hedman

Brayden Point (2nd • 13:04)

Assisted by Ryan McDonagh , Gage Goncalves

After 1st — 2–1

Panthers

Panthers: no games found in this situation this year.

Lightning

Lightning: no games found in this situation this year.

After 2nd — 5–2

Panthers

Panthers: no games found in this situation this year.

Lightning

Lightning: no games found in this situation this year.

Lines & Pairings · est. by ice time

FLA

L1: Reinhart · Barkov · Lundell · 18:40

L2: Marchand · Luostarinen · Verhaeghe · 16:32

L3: Rodrigues · Bennett · Samoskevich · 12:35

L4: Tkachuk · Sturm · Boqvist · 11:43

D1: Jones · Forsling · 23:38

D2: Kulikov · Mikkola · 19:58

D3: Schmidt · Balinskis · 15:23

TBL

L1: Point · Goncalves · Kucherov · 22:58

L2: Hagel · Paul · Guentzel · 19:18

L3: Gourde · Geekie · Girgensons · 14:05

L4: Glendening · Cirelli · 8:01

D1: Hedman · McDonagh · 20:30

D2: Cernak · Martinsen Lilleberg · 16:42

D3: Raddysh · Moser · 14:22

D4: Perbix · 11:10