Matthew Tkachuk scored twice in his long-awaited return to the lineup to lead the Panthers to a 6-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning and give them a 1-0 series lead on Tuesday, April 22.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are entering the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs as one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference with a good chance of adding another banner to their rafters. Despite the ...

For the third time in four seasons, the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning are meeting in the playoffs. Given what we’ve seen over the last few months, it might be the best yet.

After dropping the opening game by a goal, the Lightning lost Game 2 in overtime and found themselves having to climb out of a 2-0 series deficit going home, and Tampa Bay was never able to recover.

The winner of the Art Ross Trophy is Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov, who wins the award for the second straight season and the third time in his career. Kucherov finished the year ...

The Panthers’ series against the Tampa Bay Lightning begins on Tuesday at Amalie Arena in Tampa. The 8:30 p.m. game will be televised on ESPN and the usual South Florida channels for regular ...

And the opponent is a very familiar one - the Tampa Bay Lightning. The first-round series opens in Tampa at Amalie Arena with the second game there on April 24 before Florida returns to Amerant ...

Tampa Bay finished second in the Atlantic Division and will likely rest some key players in the final game of the regular season. The Lightning are led by Nikita Kucherov, who has 121 points.

Matthew Tkachuk had two power-play goals and an assist in his first game after a two-month absence and the Florida Panthers opened defense of their Stanley Cup title with a 6-2 win over the Tampa ...

Florida Panthers center Aleksander Barkov (16) takes a shot on Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy (88) and misses during the first period of a game on Monday, March 3, 2025 ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers will face off in the first round of the NHL playoffs. The series begins in Tampa Bay with Games 1 and 2. Tickets are on sale for each game in the series.