Tampa Bay Lightning vs Florida Panthers
Regular season · Friday, December 26, 2008 · BankAtlantic Center
XM 208 · FS-F (HD) · SUN
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 4–3 in a shootout on Friday, December 26, 2008 at BankAtlantic Center. The Lightning outshot the Panthers 35–28.
Goals came from Steve Eminger, Keith Ballard, Mark Recchi, Evgeny Artyukhin, Cory Stillman and Bryan McCabe.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Eminger (2)Paul Ranger (8)1–011:24 TBL
Keith Ballard (4)Nick Boynton (6), Radek Dvorak (10)1–118:28 FLA
2nd period
Mark Recchi (8)Steve Eminger (12), Matt Pettinger (1)2–116:53 TBL
Evgeny Artyukhin (2)Ryan Malone (7), Steve Eminger (13)3–118:27 TBL
3rd period
Cory Stillman (8)Jay Bouwmeester (13), Keith Ballard (10)3–213:37 FLA · 
Bryan McCabe (6)Stephen Weiss (13), Cory Stillman (5)3–319:46 FLA
Team stats
TBLFLA
3528
48%52%
0/51/5
3030
2914
254
43
65
Penalties
- 18:28 into the first period
Nick Tarnasky · fighting5 min - 18:28 into the first period
Evgeny Artyukhin · fighting5 min - 18:28 into the first periodEvgeny Artyukhin · misconduct10 min
- 18:37 into the first periodRichard Zednik · hooking2 min
- 6:10 into the second periodJay Bouwmeester · hooking2 min
- 14:04 into the second periodKarlis Skrastins · high sticking2 min
- 14:26 into the second periodVinny Prospal · boarding2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodNick Boynton · instigator2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodNick Boynton · fighting5 min
- 20:00 into the second periodNick Boynton · misconduct10 min
- 20:00 into the second periodEvgeny Artyukhin · fighting5 min
- 6:02 into the third periodVincent Lecavalier · slashing2 min
- 7:31 into the third periodPaul Ranger · delaying game2 min
- 11:56 into the third periodSteve Eminger · tripping2 min
- 14:18 into the third periodKarlis Skrastins · hooking2 min
- 17:12 into the third periodPaul Ranger · holding2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.