Florida Panthers vs Tampa Bay Lightning

Playoffs · Wednesday, April 30, 2025 · Amalie Arena

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6–3

Final

SOG 31–29

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Game summary

The Florida Panthers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-3 on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at Amalie Arena. The Panthers outshot the Lightning 31-29.

Goals came from Gage Goncalves, Carter Verhaeghe, Anton Lundell, Nick Paul, Aleksander Barkov, Jake Guentzel, Sam Bennett, Eetu Luostarinen and Sam Reinhart.

Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves on 29 shots for the win; Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 25 of 30.

Goals	1st	2nd	3rd	T	SOG
FLA	2	2	2	6	31
TBL	2	1	0	3	29

Three stars

Scoring

1st period

Gage Goncalves (1)Luke Glendening (1), Victor Hedman (2)0–102:33 TBL
Carter Verhaeghe (2)Matthew Tkachuk (2), Sam Reinhart (4)1–105:21 FLA · PPG
Anton Lundell (2)Brad Marchand (3), Eetu Luostarinen (2)2–110:06 FLA
Nick Paul (2)Conor Geekie (1)2–212:16 TBL

2nd period

Aleksander Barkov (1)Gustav Forsling (1), Eetu Luostarinen (3)3–200:52 FLA
Jake Guentzel (3)Victor Hedman (3)3–309:57 TBL · PPG
Sam Bennett (3)Anton Lundell (2), Eetu Luostarinen (4)4–315:13 FLA

3rd period

Eetu Luostarinen (1)Brad Marchand (4), Anton Lundell (3)5–313:02 FLA
Sam Reinhart (2)Unassisted6–315:36 FLA · EN

Tired legs

Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.

0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

GoalFLA on iceTBL on iceDefenders’ longest

0–1 TBL

1st 2:33 · Goncalves

Mikkola 0:40

NormalMikkola 0:40

1–1 FLA

1st 5:21 · PP · Verhaeghe

Glendening 0:33

Fresh legsGlendening 0:33

2–1 FLA

1st 10:06 · Lundell

Cernak 0:43

NormalCernak 0:43

2–2 TBL

1st 12:16 · Paul

Greer 0:40

NormalGreer 0:40

3–2 FLA

2nd 0:52 · Barkov

Hedman 0:52

NormalHedman 0:52

3–3 TBL

2nd 9:57 · PP · Guentzel

Kulikov 0:43

NormalKulikov 0:43

4–3 FLA

2nd 15:13 · Bennett

Goncalves 0:59

NormalGoncalves 0:59

5–3 FLA

3rd 13:02 · Luostarinen

Raddysh 0:52

NormalRaddysh 0:52

6–3 FLA

3rd 15:36 · EN · Reinhart

Guentzel 1:26

Empty netGuentzel 1:26

Hover or tap a bar for the skater.

Across the league. Share of 5v5 unblocked shots that went in, by how far into his shift the defending team’s longest-serving skater was (2024–25).

4.2%

5.7%

5.9%

6.9%

6.6%

0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

1.6×

Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.6 times as often as against fresh legs (6.6% vs 4.2%).

29%

of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.

Team stats

FLATBL

31Shots on goal29

47%Faceoff %53%

1/3Power play1/3

8Penalty minutes8

46Hits26

18Blocked shots14

13Giveaways17

5Takeaways4

Penalties

1st 05:09Emil Lilleberg · slashing2 min
1st 12:45Nick Perbix · holding2 min
1st 16:34Seth Jones · interference2 min
2nd 08:38Sam Bennett · slashing2 min
2nd 13:07Sam Bennett · slashing2 min
2nd 20:00Evan Rodrigues · roughing2 min
2nd 20:00Jake Guentzel · roughing2 min
3rd 18:34Erik Cernak · cross checking2 min

Season series

Florida Panthers

Florida Panthers skaters

27Eetu LuostarinenC	1	3	4	+4	3	4	1	0	67	16:28
15Anton LundellC	1	2	3	+2	3	0	0	0	56	17:58
13Sam ReinhartC	1	1	2	+1	7	0	0	0	100	20:09
63Brad MarchandL	0	2	2	+1	0	2	1	0	–	17:55
9Sam BennettC	1	0	1	+1	6	5	2	4	100	16:59
16Aleksander BarkovC	1	0	1	+2	2	2	1	0	48	19:07
19Matthew TkachukL	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	–	10:33
23Carter VerhaegheC	1	0	1	+1	3	6	2	0	100	17:27
42Gustav ForslingD	0	1	1	+2	0	3	5	0	–	25:52
8Nico SturmC	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	33	08:10
10A.J. GreerL	0	0	0	-2	0	5	0	0	–	06:59
17Evan RodriguesC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	13	13:58
70Jesper BoqvistC	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	–	07:40
3Seth JonesD	0	0	0	+2	2	2	0	2	–	26:31
7Dmitry KulikovD	0	0	0	-1	0	7	2	0	–	21:57
26Uvis BalinskisD	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	–	11:11
77Niko MikkolaD	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	–	20:58
88Nate SchmidtD	0	0	0	+2	1	4	1	0	–	12:49

Florida Panthers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
41Vitek VanecekG		0	0	0	–	00:00
72Sergei BobrovskyG	W	29	26	3	.897	60:00

Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lightning skaters

77Victor HedmanD	0	2	2	-2	3	0	2	0	–	26:37
11Luke GlendeningC	0	1	1	+1	0	5	0	0	38	08:59
14Conor GeekieC	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	0	100	12:58
20Nick PaulL	1	0	1	-1	5	2	0	0	50	14:38
59Jake GuentzelC	1	0	1	-2	4	0	1	2	100	24:21
93Gage GoncalvesC	1	0	1	-1	4	2	0	0	–	19:03
21Brayden PointC	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	43	23:48
28Zemgus GirgensonsC	0	0	0	-1	0	5	0	0	–	08:27
37Yanni GourdeC	0	0	0	-2	0	1	3	0	50	14:40
41Mitchell ChaffeeR	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	–	11:42
71Anthony CirelliC	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	50	19:39
86Nikita KucherovR	0	0	0	-2	2	1	1	0	–	23:34
27Ryan McDonaghD	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	–	17:31
43Darren RaddyshD	0	0	0	-3	1	1	0	0	–	16:07
48Nick PerbixD	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	2	–	14:54
78Emil LillebergD	0	0	0	+1	0	1	2	2	–	10:51
81Erik CernakD	0	0	0	-1	3	2	3	2	–	17:07
90J.J. MoserD	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	–	12:24

Tampa Bay Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
31Jonas JohanssonG		0	0	0	–	00:00
88Andrei VasilevskiyG	L	30	25	5	.833	57:02