Neither team was able to score in the first period. The Panthers had numerous shooting opportunities and outshot the Bolts 18-9 in the opening frame.
Florida broke the scoreless tie at the 4:51 mark of the second period. Owen Tippett tapped the puck in the slot area and Jonathan Huberdeau pushed to the left point. Kevin Connauton blasted a slap shot from above the top left circle for his second goal of the preseason. Tippett picked up his team-high seventh preseason point.
Tampa Bay evened it up at 7:31of the second. Steven Stamkos passed from the right wing and Alex Killorn scored on a wrist shot from the low slot by Sergei Bobrovsky for his first goal of the preseason campaign. Anthony Cirelli received a secondary assist on the play.
The Panthers reclaimed the lead 2-1 just 27 seconds later. Aleksander Barkov chipped the puck from the right corner to Carter Verhaeghe on the end wall. He fed a pass to the middle and Sam Reinhart snapped a shot from the slot area past Andrei Vasilevskiy for his second preseason goal.
In the third period, the Lightning tied it 2-2 exactly one minute in. Ondrej Palat passed it from the right wing to Erik Cernak on the right point. He dragged it to the top of the zone and fired a slap shot. Bobrovsky made the initial save, however Brayden Point flipped in the rebound from the front of the crease for his club-high sixth point of the postseason.
The Bolts scored on a power-play goal with 7:56 remaining in the third period. There was a scramble for the loose puck in the blue paint and Pat Maroon pushed it in.
It became 4-2 for Tampa Bay with 5:59 left in the third on another power-play tally. Palat centered the puck from the right-wing boards and Maroon shoveled in a backhand shot from right circle into the top portion of the cage.
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