NHL Highlights | Lightning vs. Panthers – December 27, 2025

Nikita Kucherov had two goals, including the game-winning one while Andrei Vasilevskiy was great, stopping 24-of-26 shots to help the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 4-2 in yet another intense Battle of Florida.

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00:00:00 – 1st Regulation Period
00:04:40 – 2nd Regulation Period
00:07:17 – 3rd Regulation Period

26 comments

  2. Happy with Panthers game ,not as happy with so many huge scoring chances without cash it in 🙂 Glad that panthers finally warming up in December ,Can’t wait for April though ☝🏻😀 let’s go for three peat 🏆🏆🏆

  3. Huge win for Bolts against Panthers + ref. Twice as many penalty minutes and 10 PPs against the Lightning don't reflect what was going on in the game. Is there any mechanism to appeal and complain? Record video clip of obvious officiating errors and disqualify that ref from NHL, or suspend him at least

  4. К сожалению, в этом сезоне обоим командам не светит ничего. Остаётся просто наслаждаться хоккеем.

  10. Когда обе команды близки, легче воспринимается поражение. И умеренная радость за победу! Василевский и Кучеров – молодцы!!! Флорида! Не унывать: "можно проиграть битву, но победить в войне" (цитата из фильма В ПОРТУ)!

  17. I don't care much for meritless excuses when a fans favorite NHL team loses. That said, I can't help but call BS toward this season's NHL Officiating, Replay/Situation-Room, as well as the League Office in regards to the clear & persistent bias towards the Tampa Bay Lightning. I'm saying this after all odds stacked against them, they fought (literally) and managed to Win tonights game vs the Florida Panthers 4-2.

    I don't know what's going on, but for anyone who saw tonights one-sided Officiated Game, it's been this way, and some games even worse. For example the "phantom" Brandon Hagel Hand-Pass call by the anti "Nikita Kucherov" NHL Situation-Room that negated the game tying goal in the final seconds of the game vs the Penguins! Or the (2) other very controversial Goal negating BS Off-Sides Calls by Kucherov, or the numerous No Penalties being called viscious boarding, Elbows to the head & stick spearing Cheap Shots that have resulted in lengthy stints on the IR for Lightning Players, including the December 15th game elbow to the head by Player Seth Jones that has resulted in Brandon Hagel being currently out on the IR! To this day, No Penalty, No Suspension, No Fine or punishment of any kind was given to Seth Jones⁉️ I could go on & on with further examples of how the League has been blatantly biased toward the Lightning, which actually started toward the second half of Last Season. Why?…don't know, but I do have my suspicions, though not enough to say for sure why this is occurring.

    Jon Cooper is a fantastic Head Coach, and for those who know of or follow him, know that he is a laid back, quiet, and consistently "steady as she goes" type Coach. That said, you can see & listen during some of his recent Post Game Interviews where even he is beginning to wear very thin on what he is witnessing. As much as I respect & appreciate him, he truly needs to both interject & object much more loudly during & after games. The Lightning Ownership & Staff also need to be ringing phones off the hook and/or melting cell phone batteries of the folks at the NHL League Office. 🫡

  20. Panthers play by play commentators now hold the title for the most bias fools in the league since jack left Boston. With all the rough stuff the 2 turtles ( Marchand and Bennett) where nowhere to be seen.

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