ECR1: Florida Panthers (A3) vs Tampa Bay Lightning (A2) - PANTHERS WIN 4-1

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https://www.nhl.com/news/tampa-bay-l...series-preview
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...g-vs-panthers/
https://thehockeywriters.com/lightni...panthers-2025/
https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/20...ction-schedule

Lightning: 47-27-8, 102 points ​(second in the Atlantic Division and third in the eastern confernce)
Panthers: 47-31-4, 98 points ​(third in the Atlantic Division and fifth in the eastern conference)

Regular-season series: tied at 2-2-0
This will be the third time these two teams will meet in the playoffs for the Battle of Florida State bragging rights.
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Series Schedule: https://www.nhl.com/schedule/playoff...s-vs-lightning

Game 1: Panthers at Lightning, __Tuesday, April 22, 6:30 p.m. MT; ESPN, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS
Game 2: Panthers at Lightning, __Thursday, April 24, 4:30 p.m. MT; TBS, truTV, MAX, SN360, TVAS2, FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS
Game 3: Lightning at Panthers, __Saturday, April 26, 11 a.m. MT; TBS, truTV, MAX,, SN, TVAS, FDSNSUN, SCRIPPS
Game 4: Lightning at Panthers, ___Monday, April 28, TBD
Game 5: Panthers at Lightning, Wednesday, April 30, TBD *
Game 6: Lightning at Panthers, ____Friday, May 2, TBD *
Game 7: Panthers at Lightning, ___Sunday, May 4, TBD *

Full Coverage: https://www.nhl.com/playoffs/2025/series-b-coverage
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Florida in 7. Tampa can... well, you know...

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Don't forget last year's savior everybody...Go Panthers!!!

Plus, #### Tampa Bay, amirite?

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Don't forget last year's savior everybody...Go Panthers!!!

Plus, #### Tampa Bay, amirite?

sorry, but not this year - we need the pick to be 22 not 28-32

[dissentowner]

F the Bolts. Panthers in 6

[Paulie Walnuts]

I’m sorry but the Panthers look like crap since they got Marchand.

You can’t just hold back for the playoffs.

Tampa makes this a quick one in 5

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

I’m sorry but the Panthers look like crap since they got Marchand.

You can’t just hold back for the playoffs.

Tampa makes this a quick one in 5

They've had a lot of injuries, suspensions. They're not holding back, just missing personnel.

I'll take that bet.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

sorry, but not this year - we need the pick to be 22 not 28-32

You don't want them to win a single round....against Tampa Bay, the unholiest of all unholies?

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

They've had a lot of injuries, suspensions. They're not holding back, just missing personnel.

I'll take that bet.

Dino7c is that you?

Getting guys back and up to speed in a series might be difficult. Maybe if it was 1 player.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Dino7c is that you?

Getting guys back and up to speed in a series might be difficult. Maybe if it was 1 player.

To put me in that category of homerism...jesus dude.

Perhaps you may have to allow for a dissenting viewpoint from your own once in a while.

They've been through it before, multiple times. It won't take long to find their game.

Playoff roster:

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
Tkachuk-Bennett-Marchand
Luostarinen-Lundell-Samoskevich/Rodrigues
Greer-Sturm/Nosek-Rodrigues/Samoskevich/Bogqvist/Gadjovich

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Kulikov-Schmidt/Balinskis

Bobrovsky
Vanacek

Show me the hole in that lineup.

[dammage79]

My question for the Panthers is this, do they have enough gas in the tank to take down an apparently resilient TB team. And are they healthy enough? What's it been? Twice to the cup finals in consecutive seasons? Hoping for a 3rd time? With a majority of the same cast from those two trips? That's a lot to ask from a battle hardened and battle weary group.

TB in 6. Just a guess and a hopeful outcome for the Flames draft pick.

And Just so we are clear, I'll always cheer for Bennett but I have a suspicion that there's not much left in the tank this time around.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

To put me in that category of homerism...jesus dude.

Perhaps you may have to allow for a dissenting viewpoint from your own once in a while.

They've been through it before, multiple times. It won't take long to find their game.

Playoff roster:

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
Tkachuk-Bennett-Marchand
Luostarinen-Lundell-Samoskevich/Rodrigues
Greer-Sturm/Nosek-Rodrigues/Samoskevich/Bogqvist/Gadjovich

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Kulikov-Schmidt/Balinskis

Bobrovsky
Vanacek

Show me the hole in that lineup.

Didn’t mean the homer problem but the I’ll take that bet lol.

Tkachuk hasn’t played since February. Forgot about Donald he was injured.

Don’t think they have holes. The holes might be the 2 big runs and injuries that probably still ache and style they play that wears you down as it does the opposition. Tampa made it beat up a 3rd straight year so you never know.

They look rejuvenated.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by dammage79

My question for the Panthers is this, do they have enough gas in the tank to take down an apparently resilient TB team. And are they healthy enough? What's it been? Twice to the cup finals in consecutive seasons? Hoping for a 3rd time? With a majority of the same cast from those two trips? That's a lot to ask from a battle hardened and battle weary group.

TB in 6. Just a guess and a hopeful outcome for the Flames draft pick.

That's actually a fair point. The cup hangover is a real thing. I think Maurice has been conserving some of the effort over the last few weeks to mitigate against that.

We'll find out. It's why they play the games.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Didn’t mean the homer problem but the I’ll take that bet lol.

Tkachuk hasn’t played since February. Forgot about Donald he was injured.

Don’t think they have holes. The holes might be the 2 big runs and injuries that probably still ache and style they play that wears you down as it does the opposition. Tampa made it beat up a 3rd straight year so you never know.

They look rejuvenated.

Okay, that's fair, but they have mostly outplayed their opposition down the stretch, just haven't won as much. I still think Tkachuk will be ready because he is who he is.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

You don't want them to win a single round....against Tampa Bay, the unholiest of all unholies?

can't risk it

also, not worried about Tampa because, for some weird reason, I think Toronto is going deep this year

[Toonage]

Panthers in 7. I expect a bloodbath.

[topfiverecords]

Is this Dallas-Colorado east? The two best teams in the 2/3 slot. I think this one goes 7 and it’s a coin flip. So that means Florida in 5.

[Hockey_Ninja]

I'll go Panthers in 6 or 7

[FanIn80]

The team from Florida over the other team from Florida in 6.

[Erick Estrada]

Panthers in 7. They are the deeper team but it could go either way.

[midniteowl]

I HATE the Bolts!


Panthers in 7