Overview
- Florida improved to 5-1-1 over its past seven games after closing the four-game swing at 3-1-0.
- Sam Reinhart’s special-teams brace marked his fourth career game with both a short-handed and power-play goal, the most in franchise history.
- The Panthers denied all five Tampa Bay power plays while Bobrovsky turned aside 26 shots.
- Rookie Max Crozier scored his first NHL goal for the Lightning, J. J. Moser added one, and Brayden Point recorded two assists.
- Jonas Johansson made 19 saves in a seventh straight start with Andrei Vasilevskiy unavailable; Florida’s Gustav Forsling left after blocking a shot and Tampa’s Brandon Hagel departed late following a hit.