Lightning Crack Panthers

     The Florida Panthers fell to the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-1 at Amerant Bank Arena on Monday night. It is the final Panthers home preseason content prior to the beginning of the 2024-25 regular season. 

     Tampa Bay got the only goal of the first period and led 1-0. Emil Lilleberg fired in a slap shot with 6:41 left in the first. 

     The Lightning extended their lead to 2-0 with 8:20 remaining in the second period. Gage Goncalves snapped a shot for an unassisted tally. 

     In the third period, Florida made it 2-1 on a power-play goal with 4:34 to go. Sam Reinhart scored on a tip-in with assists from Carter Verhaeghe and Matthew Tkachuk. 

     The Bolts increased it to 3-1 with 2:09 left in the third. Maxim Groshev placed in a wrist shot into an empty net off a feed from Nikita Kucherov.