The Florida Panthers were outscored by the Tampa Bay Lightning 8-7 at Kia Arena in Orlando on Wednesday night. The Panthers played their first road preseason game.
Florida rocketed out to a 2-0 within the first three minutes of the contest. Zac Dalpe scored at the 1:45 mark while A.J. Greer added another tally at 2:57.
Tampa Bay responded with two goals before the end of the first period to tie it up 2-2. Darren Raddysh found the net at 7:14 and Tobie Paquette-Bisson scored with 24 seconds remaining.
Both teams scored near the midway point of the second period for a 3-3 game. Raddysh compiled his second goal of the game at 9:50 for the Bolts. The Cats evened it 3-3 with 8:05 to go on a tally by Sandis Vilmanis.
In the third period, both clubs exchanged goals in the opening nine minutes of the third period. Conor Geekie and Niko Huuhtanen had goals for Tampa Bay while Jesper Boqvist and Wilmer Skroog scored for Florida.
The Panthers then got two straight goals by Tobias Bjornfot at 9:41 and Ryan McAllister at 12:37 to make it 7-5. The Lightning rallied back with three goals to take an 8-7 lead. They picked up goals from Maxim Groshev with 5:21 to go, Dylan Duke with 2:46 remaining and a power-play tally by Geekie with two seconds left.
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