"The Lightning carried much of the play in the first period, however, it was the shorthanded Panthers who opened the scoring at 11:52 when Eetu Luostarinen beat goaltender Brandon Halverson to Gustav Forsling's dump in. Luostarinen knocked the puck into the air, gloved it down and smacked it into the yawning net. Tampa Bay would even it up at 19:19 on their fourth power play of the frame."
"After getting out-shot 18-5 in the first, the Cats came back out and quickly regained the lead, aided by an early cross-checking minor on Dominic James. Brad Marchand sent the puck to Sam Bennett below the goal line and he fed back out to the right point to Seth Jones. Jones snapped off a rising wrist shot that struck Halverson, who was screened by Marchand, up high and tumbled into the cage at the 57-second mark."
"It looked like the Panthers would head to the dressing room with the lead after a very long middle stanza, but after taking a cross from Evan Rodrigues, Luostarinen's shot (or pass) was blocked by Raddysh, who sent the play the other way. Kucherov's pass on the 2-on-1 break caught Guentzel in the skates and then ended up on Point's stick and he easily finished off the broken play at 18:55."
The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Florida Panthers 5-2 at Benchmark International Arena. Eetu Luostarinen opened the scoring shorthanded for Florida at 11:52 of the first, and Nikita Kucherov tied the period late on a sequence involving Brayden Point and Jake Guentzel. Early in the second Seth Jones gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead, but Point restored parity at 18:55 after a turnover. In the third, Guentzel scored on a power play at 1:05, Conor Geekie extended the lead at 6:27, and Anthony Cirelli added a goal later. Tampa Bay controlled play and finished stronger.
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