NHL 2025/26 PS Florida Panthers-Tampa Bay Lightning

NHL 2025/26 PS Florida Panthers-Tampa Bay Lightning

AND LUOSTARINEN LINE. THEY WERE SENSATIONAL. WE SAW THAT EVIDENT IN THE PLAYOFFS. AND THEN EVAN RODRIGUES MOVES TO THE CENTER. HE’S SO VERSATILE. MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH. AND OF COURSE BOQVIST. AND THEN THEN YOU GOT THAT FOURTH LINE, THE ENERGY LINE. THEY WERE THEY WERE OUTSTANDING IN THE LAST GAME THAT THEY PLAYED IN THE PRESEASON. >> LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS FULL TEAM. LET’S SAY GOOD EVENING. DOWNSTAIRS LIVE TO KATIE ENGLESON KATIE. >> HEY THERE GOLDY, IF THERE’S ANYTHING WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT THE FLORIDA PANTHERS LATELY, IT’S THAT NO ONE WANTS TO LEAVE THIS TEAM. NO ONE WANTS TO LEAVE SOUTH FLORIDA. AND TODAY’S CONTRACT EXTENSION WAS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT. AS YOU MENTIONED, DEFENSEMAN NIKO MIKKOLA SIGNING AN EIGHT YEAR CONTRACT EXTENSION WITH THE FLORIDA PANTHERS. MIKKOLA BECOMING ONE OF ELEVEN PLAYERS NOW SIGNED LOCKED UP THROUGH 2030, WHICH IS INDICATIVE OF WHAT GENERAL MANAGER BILL ZITO AND THE FLORIDA PANTHERS THIS FRANCHISE HAS BUILT AN ESTABLISHED IN SOUTH FLORIDA. HERE’S MIKKOLA AND GENERAL MANAGER. EXCUSE ME, HEAD COACH PAUL MAURICE ON MIKKOLA SIGNING EARLIER TODAY. >> FEELS AWESOME. YEAH, IT’S IT WAS TALKING THROUGH THE SUMMER AND SO ALL THE BOYS SIGNING HERE. SO IT WAS A NO BRAINER TO KEEP THE PEN TOGETHER. >> HE LOVED THOSE GUYS. BECAUSE THEY ARE PART OF THE FABRIC OF YOUR GROUP, AND THEY DO ALL THE HARD THINGS. AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, THE PLAYERS, SOMETIMES IN THAT ROLE, BECAUSE YOU GOT TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR TOP END GUYS. THEY GET MISSED OR YOU LOSE THEM. RIGHT. SO HE’S A DID NOT WANT TO SEE HIM GO TO FREE AGENCY. HE’S A BIG PART OF THAT BACK END. SO WE’RE REAL HAPPY. AND HE’S A FUNNY AS HELL. SO IT’S GOOD TO KEEP HIM AROUND. >> THE PANTHERS AND LIGHTNING SQUARE OFF TONIGHT IN THE SECOND OF THREE PRESEASON BATTLES BETWEEN THESE CROSS-STATE RIVALS, OPENING FACE OFF FROM BENCHMARK INTERNATIONAL ARENA ARENA IS UP NEXT. >> FLORIDA PANTHERS HOCKEY ON SCRIPPS SPORTS IS SPONSORED BY BAPTIST HEALTH, THE OFFICIAL SPORTS MEDICINE PROVIDER OF THE FLORIDA PANTHERS, AND BY ACCIDENT ATTORNEYS . TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. CALL ONE 800-747-3 SAM REINHART. IT’S BEEN ONE OF THE BEST ALL AROUND PLAYERS IN THE LEAGUE FOR THE TWO TIME STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS. REINHART SAVED SOME OF HIS BEST FOR CUP CLINCHERS THE LAST TWO CAME TO SEE THIS PRESEASON MATCHUP. THE PANTHERS AND THE LIGHTNING. THE REGULARS ARE IN THE LINEUP BECAUSE, HEY, THE TEAMS ARE WHITTLING IT DOWN. DANIIL TARASOV OUTSTANDING. LAST WEEK, 47 SAVES ON 49 SHOTS IN CAROLINA. AND HE GETS THE STANLEY CUP CHAMPION LINEUP IN FRONT OF HIM TONIGHT FOR TAMPA BAY. ANDRE VASILEVSKIY HAS NOT PLAYED YET IN THE PRESEASON. HE’S BACK ON SKATES IN PRACTICE, SO BRANDON HALVERSON 6’5″ 2:35 FROM UP IN TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN. QUITE A STORY, A JOURNEY HE’S GOT TO THE NHL. HE ACTUALLY QUIT THREE YEARS AGO. HE WAS DELIVERING UBER EATS, WORKING ON A FARM. HE CAME BACK. HE WAS AN NHL ALL STAR LAST YEAR, BATTLED SOME DEPRESSION. SO GREAT STORY THAT HE’S NOW IN THE LEAGUE. HE MADE HIS FIRST START OF HIS NHL CAREER LAST YEAR, AND PAUL MAURICE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT HIS SQUAD. OF COURSE, BIG STORY. NO MATTHEW TKACHUK NO ALEKSANDER BARKOV. AND THEY’LL START WITH THE LINE THAT LIT IT UP. SORRY, EDMONTON LUNDELL LUOSTARINEN AND MARCHAND OUT ON THE ICE. BRAD MARCHAND HAD TEN GOALS IN THE PLAYOFFS. SIX OF THEM WERE IN THE STANLEY CUP FINAL. AND HERE COMES NUMBER 63. LOCKED IN FOR SIX MORE YEARS. MIKKOLA AND JONES ON THE BLUE LINE. MIKKOLA WITH THE NEW CONTRACT, SENDS ONE HIGH. J.J. MOSER LOOKING TO CLEAR. SAME TWO TEAMS SATURDAY NIGHT. AMERANT BANK ARENA WILL HAVE THAT FOR YOU AS WELL ON TV PANTHERS OPEN UP ON TUESDAY. HERE COMES BOQVIST LEADING A THREE ON TWO LUNDELL GOT IT. CENTER. KULIKOV NOW PAIRED UP WITH JEFF PETRY KULIKOV SENDS IT WIDE CHERNYAK TOOK LUNDELL DOWN RIGHT IN THE BLUE PAINT. GENSEL TO POINT . OUT IN FRONT, SWING AND A MISS BY GENSEL. >> DOESN’T LOOK LIKE BRAYDEN POINT LOST ANY SPEED OVER THE OFF SEASON. >> KUCHEROV ON THE OTHER WING WITH THOSE TWO. HERE’S GENSEL. HERE’S KUCHEROV LAST TWO YEARS, THE PANTHERS ELIMINATED TAMPA IN FIVE GAMES IN THE FIRST ROUND. NIKITA NO GOALS IN THE TEN GAMES. >> AND THE PANTHERS REALLY FOCUSED ON KUCHEROV AND HOW HE CAN BE A GAME BREAKER. TOOK AWAY A LOT OF HIS SKATING AND HIS SKILL WITH THE PHYSICALITY. >> HE HAD ABOUT AN ASSIST THE GAME, BUT NO GOALS AND A MINUS ONE. HERE COMES POINT . EKBLAD CATCHES UP TO HIM. POINT LAYS IT BACK AND TARASOV MAKES HIS FIRST STOP OF THE NIGHT . >> OTHERS. JON COOPER THE LONGEST TENURED COACH IN THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE, AND HE’S GOT A VETERAN TEAM. LOOK AT THAT 14th YEAR IN THE HAY WITH THE LIGHTNING BEHIND THE BENCH. OF COURSE, A COUPLE OF CUPS AND NO DOUBT. AND THEY’RE THE SAME THING THERE. TAKE A LOOK AT VICTOR HEDMAN, THEIR ALL STAR VETERAN DEFENSEMEN THAT GET BACK INTO THE LINEUP AS WELL. VASILEVSKIY, WHO YOU MENTIONED, GOLDY VERY VETERAN LADEN TEAM . >> AND WITH THE YOUNG PLAYERS TAMPA BAY WON THE OTHER NIGHT IN ORLANDO. THREE IN A ROW BETWEEN THESE TWO TEAMS AND AGAIN, THE PANTHERS TUESDAY NIGHT RAISED THE BANNER AGAINST THE BLACKHAWKS. 5:00 GAME. WE’LL HAVE A SPECIAL ONE-HOUR PREGAME SHOW FOR YOU STARTING AT 4:00 LIVE FROM AMERANT BANK ARENA CIRELLI TRYING TO JAM IT HOME. TARASOV YOU SEE, HE’S GOT THAT SIZE WAS RIGHT ON THE POST. PANTHERS ALSO LIKED THE WAY HE GOES POST TO POST GOOD MOVEMENT. PANTHERS GOT HIM AS A FREE AGENT OR SIGN HIM TO TRADE FROM COLUMBUS. HARRISON AND BOBROVSKY TO TEAM UP BRANDON BUSSI BY THE WAY, WHO PLAYED REALLY WELL IN ORLANDO THE OTHER NIGHT. HE IS THE BACKUP GOALTENDER TONIGHT. BALINSKIS AND FOOTE DEFENSEMAN STILL ON THE ROSTER? >> YEAH, 29 PLAYERS STILL LEFT ON THE PANTHERS ROSTER AFTER THEY MADE SOME MORE. ANNOUNCED SOME MORE CUTS. >> YEAH. TYLER MOTTE NOAH GREGOR. HERE’S A CHANCE IN FRONT CROZIER STONE BY TARASOV. POINT BLANK WITH THE PAD. SAVE. AND STANICA STILL AROUND AS WELL. WHO’S PLAYED WELL IN THE PRESEASON. TWO MORE STOPS. TARASOV IS DOING EVERYTHING HERE EARLY. OH, WE’RE GETTING A GOOD GLIMPSE AGAIN OF THE 26-YEAR-OLD AND A PANTHER NET. >> YEAH. LET’S GO BACK AND TAKE A LOOK. YEAH. 47 SAVE PERFORMANCE IN HIS LAST OUTING INCLUDING 36 IN A ROW IN THE SECOND AND THIRD PERIOD. LOOK AT THE PRESSURE RIGHT HERE IN THE CROZIER IN TIGHT. ANOTHER LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT SAVE THERE. THE CAMERA ANGLE FROM BEHIND THE DEFENSE AND SEEING WHAT TARASOV HAS TO LOOK AT. >> WE’VE JUST SEEN IT TIME AFTER TIME IN THAT PANTHER NET OVER THE LAST HANDFUL OF YEARS. FROM CHRIS TRAEGER TO ALEX LYON TO ANTHONY STOLARZ, ON AND ON. TARASOV KNOWING THAT MID TWENTIES IN THAT AGE AND HE’S GOT A GREAT SITUATION. OF COURSE, HISTORY WITH SERGEI BOBROVSKY IDOL. HE LOOKS UP TO HIM. HERE’S TOBY WORKING TOGETHER. GREAT SITUATION IN THE NET FOR THE PANTHERS. RODRIGUES AT CENTER HERE. SAMUTSEVICH ON THE WING AND A.J. GREER GRABBING THE SHIFT RIGHT NOW. EVAN RODRIGUES HAS LITERALLY PLAYED EVERYWHERE. REMEMBER TWO YEARS AGO WHEN THE CUP WIN? HE WAS DYNAMITE IN THE STANLEY CUP FINAL. HE’S BEEN ON THE FOURTH LINE ON THE WINGS. NOW HE’S AT CENTER WITH THE NEED FOR THE TEAM PLAYED THERE BEFORE IN HIS CAREER. OF COURSE. >> YEAH. THIS IS WHY THESE GAMES ARE SO IMPORTANT. THESE LAST TWO PRESEASON GAMES AND GET SOME RHYTHM GOING. SOME CHEMISTRY AND AND GET THESE SYSTEMS DOWN. AND THERE’S NOT A LOT OF TIME TO WORK AT IT. AND ESPECIALLY FOR A PLAYER LIKE RODRIGUES WITH PLAYING ON A NEW LINE, GETTING TO. >> SYNC. >> NOW, BOQVIST WILL BE ON THE OTHER WING. HE’S ON NOW. SO RODRIGUES IN THE MIDDLE OF BOQVIST AND SAMUTSEVICH AND IT’S KUNIN WITH GREER AND GADJOVICH PANTHERS LOSE POSSESSION OUT IN FRONT. TARASOV WITH ANOTHER GREAT SAVE POINT WITH THE PASS BETWEEN THE LEGS TO GETZEL . LUNDELL COMING THE OTHER WAY OVER THE BLUE SHOVELS IT IN BEHIND THE NET. MARCHAND GOT TO IT . EETU LUOSTARINEN TRIES TO POP IT BACK. MARCHAND PLAYS IT OUT TO THE POINT. EKBLAD SHOOTS, DEFLECTED UP AND OVER THE NET AND THAT PUCK OUT OF PLAY. >> AND GO BACK TO ANOTHER SCORING CHANCE BY THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING. HERE IT LOOKED LIKE THE PANTHERS WERE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. AARON EKBLAD. AND THEN IT JUST ROLLED OFF THE THE END OF HIS STICK AND THEN BRAYDEN POINT WITH A KIND OF A FANCY MOVE. INSTEAD OF SHOOTING THE PUCK, HE’S STANDING IN POINT BLANK RANGE, AND HE TRIED TO SHOOT ONE BETWEEN HIS LEGS, AND THE PANTHERS WERE ABLE TO RECOVER. >> HARRISON WAS A THIRD ROUND PICK OF THE BLUE JACKETS BACK IN 2017. REINHART LOVES IT DOWN ON WITH BENNETT AND VERHAEGHE. HERE COMES SETH JONES PENALTY COMING UP ON TAMPA. JONES IS STOPPED BY HALVERSON, HIS FIRST SAVE OF THE NIGHT, BUT NOW WE’LL GET A LOOK AT THAT PANTHER POWER PLAY. >> AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S GOING TO BE A SLASHING CALL. SETH JONES COMING IN ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND DELIVERING THAT PUCK OUT IN FRONT. >> FLORIDA NUMBER 23. MINOR PENALTY SLOT. CARTER. >> NO, NO ONE’S GOING TO THE BOX. THE PENALTY WAS CALLED, BUT. >> IT’S GOING TO BE ON VERHAEGHE. >> OH, IT’S ON THE PANTHER. OKAY, WELL. ALL RIGHT . >> WELL, THE PANTHERS HAD FULL POSSESSION OF THE PUCK. AND YOU SEE CARTER VERHAEGHE IN THE PENALTY BOX. >> THAT’S HOW SURPRISED THE PANTHERS HAD POSSESSION AND THE WHISTLE HADN’T HADN’T BLOWN YET. TARASOV WAS HEADING OFF TO THE TO THE BENCH. ALL RIGHT. LIKE WE SAID, THE PANTHERS WILL GO ON THE PENALTY KILL. EKBLAD FORSLING KUNIN WILL GO WITH LUOSTARINEN TO START. >> YEAH. INTERESTING. PAUL MAURICE STARTED TELLING US BEFORE THE GAME HERE. HE SAID, YEAH, I’M GOING TO TRY SOME DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS ON THE PENALTY KILL AND EVEN ON THE POWER PLAY. >> LUKE KUNIN 11 GOALS EACH OF THE LAST 2 YEARS, 27 YEARS OLD AND MATTHEW TKACHUK GREAT FRIENDS. LOVES THAT KUNIN WAS CUT FROM THE INTERFERENCE. WE GOT A CALL HERE ON TAMPA. YEAH, BACK WHEN THEY WERE KIDS AND MATTHEW MADE THE TEAM AND AND LUKE DIDN’T. SAYS LUKE’S DAD’S THE BEST COACH HE EVER HAD. >> YEAH, THERE’S GOING TO BE AN INTERFERENCE CALL. I BELIEVE. OR AGAINST TAMPA BAY. TAMPA BAY, NUMBER 22. MINOR PENALTY INTERFERENCE. ALL RIGHT. YEAH. THERE’S GOING TO BE. LET’S GO BACK TO CARTER VERHAEGHE. THIS WAS THE CALL AGAINST HIM THERE. HE GETS SLASHED AND THEN HE GOES TO THE NET. AND THEN THEY MAKE THE CALL. AND CARTER VERHAEGHE. >> AND THAT HAD TO BE SOME TYPE. >> OF YEAH THAT WAS THAT WAS A MISTAKE. EITHER WAY WE’RE GOING TO PLAY SOME FOUR ON FOUR HOCKEY. >> ALL RIGHT. LUNDELL MARCHAND THE FORWARDS FOR THE PANTHERS. >> REMEMBER LAST LAST GAME TAMPA BAY SCORED A COUPLE OF GOALS WHEN THEY WERE ON THE FOUR ON FOUR. >> MARCHAND STICKHANDLING. NOW LUNDELL TAKES OVER BACKHAND AGAIN UP TOP. IT’S SETH JONES FIRST CAMP WITH THE PANTHERS, OF COURSE. FIRED MID-SEASON LAST YEAR . BOY, WHAT A FIT THAT WAS. AND ONCE AARON EKBLAD CAME BACK IN GAME THREE AGAINST THE LIGHTNING IN THE FIRST ROUND, IT WAS JONES AND MIKKOLA. THE PANTHERS FEEL THEY’VE REALLY GOT, YOU KNOW, A ONE, A ONE B SITUATION LIKE BASICALLY TWO TOP PAIRS WITH FORSLING AND EKBLAD AND MIKKOLA AND JONES. AND THEN THE NEARLY 2,000 GAMES PLAYED BY THE PAIR ON THE ICE. NOW KULIKOV AND PETRY 1999 BETWEEN NUMBER 2 AND NUMBER 7. KNOCKED DOWN AT CENTER BY KULIKOV AND HE GETS DOWN THE WING AND THE DROP REINHART IN DEEP FOR BEN. BENNETT ROUGHED UP . THERE. GOES DOWN. BOY. HE AND CERNAK OVER THE YEARS. HOW MANY BATTLES HAVE THEY HAD IN THE PLAYOFFS? ALL THOSE PLAYOFF SERIES BETWEEN THESE TWO TEAMS. AND NATIVE , OF COURSE, DAD PITCHED FOR DETROIT FOR AGES OUT OF THE BOX. PANTHERS ARE ON THE POWER PLAY. THEY’LL TRY FOR ONE QUICK RUSH. THEY’VE GOT THE KUNIN LINE OUT THERE. A.J. GREER OFF A CAREER YEAR, 81 GAMES PLAYED, 17 POINTS. HAGEL FOR TAMPA CORMIER BJORKSTRAND BACK IN FRONT. HARD BATTLE ALONG THE WALL HERE AND THE PANTHERS WIN IT. GREER GOT IT TO GADJOVICH WHO SENDS IT AHEAD. KUNIN IN ON THE FORECHECK WITH GADJOVICH. THEY GOT A HIT IN ON MOSER AND FORCE A TURNOVER. MIKKOLA SHOT DEFLECTED WIDE BY GADJOVICH GREER TRYING TO GET TO THAT AT THE END OF THE SHIFT, TAMPA BAY RESETS AND GREER IS HAVING SOME WORDS WITH HAGEL AND GREER IS GOING AFTER HIM. AND THEN GREER HAS JUMPED FROM BEHIND BY CIRELLI. AND HERE WE GO AGAIN. THE PANTHERS AND THE LIGHTNING . DOESN’T MATTER IF IT’S PLAYOFFS, REGULAR SEASON OR PRESEASON, THERE IS NO LOVE LOST. >> AND GREER WAS VERY UPSET AT HAGEL HERE AND WENT BACK AT. >> HIM. >> THERE’S SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED RIGHT BEFORE THAT. >> GAME. >> ORIGINAL CALL ON GREER. I BELIEVE WHEN THE ARM WENT UP. NOT SURE IF ANYBODY WILL TAMPA WILL GO. I THINK CIRELLI SHOULD BECAUSE HE JUMPED ON HIS BACK. BUT WE’LL SEE. >> YEAH, WE SAID BEFORE WE DROPPED THE PUCK THAT SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN OR SOMEONE COULD DO SOMETHING TO IGNITE. >> MUCH HISTORY, YOU KNOW, IN SO MANY LITTLE THINGS, YOU KIND OF FORGET ABOUT THAT. YOU KNOW, PLAYERS DO, AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE EVENED UP AFTER ALL. AND THAT WAS GREER AND KUCHEROV. YOU KNOW, THEY WERE GOING AFTER THAT PUCK AND NOT SURE IF IT WAS JUST THAT INCIDENT OR SOMETHING LINGERING FROM YEARS PAST. KUCHEROV IS NOT SHY ABOUT GETTING HIS LITTLE WELL, AFTER KUCHEROV ALONG THE BOARDS, GREER AND HAGEL GOT INTO IT. >> WOW. WHAT I WHAT I THINK HAPPENED WITH HAGEL CAME OVER AND SAID SOMETHING VERY QUICK AFTER THIS. THEN HAGEL SAID SOMETHING RIGHT THERE AND THEN THAT’S WHEN GREER WENT BACK AT HIM. AND THEN EVERYBODY JUMPED IN. THERE’S CIRELLI RADDYSH. >> THEY HAVEN’T ANNOUNCED IT, BUT I’M GUESSING IT WAS 4 MINUTES ON GREER BECAUSE THERE’S FOUR PANTHERS ON THE ICE AND THEY PUT SALMON IN THE BOX AS WELL. SO IT LOOKS LIKE TAMPA WILL GET A POWER PLAY OUT OF ALL THIS. SO TAMPA’S SECOND POWER PLAY FIRST ONE WAS ABBREVIATED WHEN BJORKSTRAND TOOK THE PENALTY. THE POWER PLAY. SPONSORED BY FPL. THIS IS CROZIER WITH THE PUCK GETS OUT IN FRONT OF THE PANTHER NET. KUCHEROV GOT IT OUT IN FRONT, DEFLECTED BY MARCHAND TRYING TO GET TO IT. MARCHAND PRESSURES AND GETS IT OUT TO CENTER . DD WAS 4 MINUTES ON GREER FOR ROUGHING DARREN RADDYSH IN THE BOX FOR TAMPA BAY. OF COURSE A LOT OF HISTORY THERE WITH HAGEL LAST YEAR FROM THE FOUR NATIONS. THE FIGHT WITH MATTHEW TKACHUK AND THEN IN THE PLAYOFFS IN THE FIRST ROUND SERIES. OH LOOK OUT AND PASS LUKE KUNIN GETS TO IT, CUTTING DOWN THE WING. CROZIER CLOSED ON HIM. ONE OF THOSE GUYS REAL GOOD LEADERSHIP AND IT’S ON THE U.S. NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM WITH MATTHEW TKACHUK AND A NUMBER OF THOSE PLAYERS. THEY HAD SOME GREAT TEAMS. SO MANY PLAYERS HAVE FIT IN IN THAT FOURTH LINE CENTER ROLE OVER THE LAST HANDFUL OF YEARS. KUNIN TRYING TO DO THE SAME. KUCHEROV IS WATCHED BY FORSLING BACK AND GOES FOR CROZIER. HERE’S KUCHEROV AGAIN . CANCEL AT THE GOAL LINE. GENSEL AGAIN LOOKING CENTERS EKBLAD BLOCKED IT BACK. IT GOES KUCHEROV THERE’S THE SHOT BLOCKED AGAIN. THAT WAS FORSLING EKBLAD AND FORSLING DOING THEIR THING DEFENSIVELY. AND ANOTHER BLOCKED SHOT THAT BY KUNIN AND THE PUCK IS OUT OF PLAY. >> WELL, THAT’S THE SUCCESS THAT THE PANTHERS HAVE. IF YOU GO BACK LAST YEAR AND ESPECIALLY IN THE PLAYOFFS, THAT FIVE GAME SERIES, THE PANTHERS WIN. TAMPA IS ON THE POWER PLAY. THEY JUST MAKE IT SO DIFFICULT FOR HIM. LOOK AT HOW THAT BOX JUST MOVING THERE, ANTICIPATING. THERE’S THE CENTERING PASS BLOCKED THERE BY EKBLAD GOES BACK KUCHEROV ANOTHER BLOCK BY FORSLING AND THEN EVENTUALLY ANOTHER DEFLECTION IN THE PUCK GOES OUT OF PLAY. GREAT FOUR MAN WORK RIGHT THERE. THE PENALTY KILLERS. >> CIRELLI NOW ON. GLOVES IT DOWN. KULIKOV WILL STEP IN FOR THE PANTHERS AND GET THE CLEAR. KULIKOV GOING WITH PETRY. THE 37-YEAR-OLD AND IT’S BOQVIST AND RODRIGUES. ANOTHER AREA PANTHERS LIKE EVERY OTHER AREA, WILL MISS ALEKSANDER BARKOV ON THE PK. TARASOV MAKES THE SAVE ON THE MOSER SHOT. >> LIKE THE ENERGY LEVEL, THE FLORIDA PANTHERS. AND YOU KNOW, WE MENTIONED TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT’S FOR THESE REGULARS. IT’S FIRST PRESEASON GAME. AND A LOT OF TIMES THE LEGS MAYBE JUST NOT THERE OR THE HANDS OR YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GET INTO THE GAME, BUT THEIR ENERGY LEVEL HAS BEEN HIGH AND THEY’RE KEEPING THEIR FEET MOVING VERY DIFFICULT TRAINING CAMP, SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT. THE WAY IT WAS SET UP, BUT STILL THE HARD WORK THAT HAD TO BE PUT IN BY THESE PLAYERS AND PAUL MAURICE SAYS THEY’VE GOT TO GO THROUGH IT. AND HE HELPS HIM. ONCE YOU GET INTO LATE APRIL AND EARLY MAY AND IN JUNE., HE SAYS HE TAKES NO JOY IN IT, BUT IT MUST BE DONE. >> PANTHERS KILL IT OFF. SALMAN SAVAGE WAS TIED UP WITH CHERNOCK . CHERNOCK CAUGHT SOMETHING IN THE FACE. HE WENT S WHO COULD NOT REAVES . >> WELCOME BACK TO TAMPA, WHERE WE ARE SCORELESS IN THIS FIRST PERIOD BETWEEN THE FLORIDA PANTHERS AND THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING, THE PANTHERS ARE ESSENTIALLY RUNNING THE SAME LINEUP THAT THEY WOULD FOR OPENING NIGHT. ASIDE FROM GOALTENDER SERGEI BOBROVSKY, WHO DOES HAVE THE NIGHT OFF, HEAD COACH PAUL MAURICE TOLD US THEY’LL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO SATURDAY NIGHT’S GAME BASED ON HEALTH. HOWEVER, HE SAID THAT THIS WILL BE THE LINEUP IF THE REGULAR SEASON WAS STARTING TODAY. HE TOLD US THAT THE FORMAT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR, HE SAID. ALL THE GUYS FROM LAST YEAR, ALL THE VETERANS, ARE ONLY GOING TO GET TWO EXHIBITION GAMES. BUT HE SAID THAT THIS IS THE WAY IT’S GOING TO BE MOVING FORWARD. AND GUYS, FOR MANY OF THE VETERANS, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY’VE PLAYED IN A COMPETITIVE GAME SINCE THE STANLEY CUP FINAL. >> THAT GAME SIX NIGHT IN SOUTH FLORIDA, SOMETHING ELSE. AND YEAH, THEY’RE GOING DOWN TO FOUR PRESEASON GAMES NEXT YEAR AND ADDING TWO REGULAR SEASON GAMES. SO THERE’LL BE 84 REGULAR SEASON GAMES FOR THE PANTHERS. YOU KNOW, TRYING A LITTLE BIT OF A TRIAL RUN. YOU KNOW THERE’S CHANGES LIKE THAT. IT’S TRIAL AND ERROR. SEE HOW THINGS GO. SO TONIGHT AND THEN SATURDAY , THE FINAL TWO PRESEASON GAMES FOR THE CATS SAM BENNETT WITH VERHAEGHE AND REINHART BENNING SHOT FOR THOSE HIGH HALVERSON . BENNETT REINHART MAYBE THE ONLY COMBINATION THAT HAVEN’T BEEN TOGETHER OVER THE LAST HANDFUL OF YEARS. THEY’VE ONLY PLAYED MAYBE THREE GAMES. BUT HE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? SAM REINHART IS ELITE. I GOT TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WORKS WITH HIM? CHEMISTRY WISE. OF COURSE, THERE’S SO MANY OPTIONS, YOU KNOW, FOR PAUL MAURICE, REINHART TAKES A HIT THERE FROM JAMES LUOSTARINEN. HAS PLAYED CENTER BEFORE AND THERE’S A BIG HIT. LILJEBERG WENT DOWN. >> AND A LITTLE SCRAPPY THERE IN THE CENTER OF THE ICE. YOU KNOW, GOING BACK TO SAM REINHART. I MEAN, THERE’S GOING TO BE A PENALTY AGAINST THE PANTHERS OUT OF ALL OF THAT. I I’M CONFUSED AS A GOAT ON ASTROTURF. I CAN’T I CAN’T UNDERSTAND SOME OF THESE CALLS. >> MOSER PRESSURED PANTHERS DON’T GET POSSESSION. OFF A GOOD SAVE. AND NOW KULIKOV WITH THE TOUCH. IT’S A HIGH STICK ON THE PANTHERS. >> AND NOW THERE’S SOME MORE. A LITTLE BIT OF TALKING GOING ON. >> NO SURPRISE. YANNI GOURDE. HE’S IN THERE WITH RODRIGUES. THEY’LL BE SEEING A LOT OF EACH OTHER THIS YEAR. SO BENNETT’S GOING TO THE BOX. >> FLORIDA NINE. MINOR PENALTY. HIGH STICK. >> SO BENNETT GOES TO THE PENALTY BOX FOR HIGH STICKING. ALL RIGHT. OH, HERE IT IS. THERE OKAY. THAT WAS WHEN THE SCREW RIGHT AT CENTER ICE WITH THE SCRAMBLE FOR THE PUCK. INADVERTENT HIGH STICK. >> BY THE WAY. YOU SEE GREER STILL IN THERE. THEY ALSO CALLED HIM MISCONDUCT ON HIM. IN ADDITION TO THE FOUR MINUTES. THAT’S WHY HE’S STILL IN THE BOX. BENNETT. CONN SMYTHE, WINNER LAST YEAR, THEN SIGNED FOR EIGHT YEARS. AS HE VERY ELOQUENTLY SAID IN SOUTH FLORIDA, HE’S NOT GOING ANYWHERE. AND 15 GOALS IN 23 GAMES. EXACTLY WHAT HE. SAID. GOAL. HE ELOQUENTLY SAID THAT I DON’T HAVE TO LOOK AT THE TAPE. I DON’T KNOW EXACTLY. HE MADE REFERENCE TO HIM. HE’S STICKING. >> WELL, THESE PLAYERS, THEY THEY THIS TEAM, THEY BUILT SOMETHING SO SPECIAL. AND THAT’S THE REASON WHY ALL THESE PLAYERS RESIGNED AND THAT THEY, THEY KNOW WHAT THEY WHAT THEY HAVE HERE. >> LUOSTARINEN TRYING TO GET TO IT. HE DOES HAS AN EMPTY NETTER . EETU LUOSTARINEN SHORTHANDED. >> OH A LITTLE INDECISION THERE BY HALVERSON THE GOALTENDER, DIDN’T HE. HE JUST HESITATED WHETHER HE COULD COME OUT AND HELP HIS DEFENSE. LIGHTNING ON THE POWER PLAY . AND OF COURSE EETU LUOSTARINEN ON UNFAZED BY THAT. LOOK AT HOW HE JUST TAKES OFF. AND THEN HALVERSON. OH, AND HE WAS A SECOND LATE THERE AND AN EMPTY NET GOAL THERE, SHORTHANDED. >> WHAT A PENALTY KILLER ETU IS AND JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. GREAT POSTSEASON. DOES ALL THAT DIRTY WORK. YOU KNOW, AS WE LEARNED LAST YEAR WITH LUOSTARINEN LUNDELL THE FINNS, THEY’RE SO RESPONSIBLE DEFENSIVELY. AND NOW BRAD MARCHAND BROUGHT A LITTLE BIT OF AN OFFENSIVE MINDSET. SO THEY WANT TO KEEP THE DEFENSIVE FOUNDATION AND STILL HAVE THAT OFFENSE. LOOK OUT. THAT WAS THE REFEREE. MICHAEL MARKOVIC THAT TOOK THAT PUCK. HE’S OKAY. KUCHEROV BREAKS IN. TAMPA STILL IN THE POWER PLAY . KUCHEROV CENTERING PASS BLOCKED BY KULIKOV AND A DIVING EFFORT BY LUNDELL ON THE CLEAR. KUCHEROV DARTING INTO THE OFFENSIVE ZONE. FEEDS CHAFFEE PASS IN FRONT. BLOCKED AWAY ANOTHER SLIDING DEFENSEMAN. SO YOU KNOW YOU LOOK AT THE DETAILS. THESE GUYS ARE MAYBE GOING TO GET SIX PERIODS OF PRESEASON HOCKEY. THEY’RE DOING THE LITTLE THINGS WELL HERE IN THE FIRST. >> WELL TAMPA CONTINUES IT WITH THE MAN ADVANTAGE. TRYING TO CENTER THAT PUCK. AND IN IN THAT LOW SLOT AREA AND THE PANTHERS, THE POSITIONING HAVE BEEN RIGHT ON SO FAR IN DENYING . >> AND WE ALSO LEARNED TONIGHT YOU KNOW PRETTY INTERESTING THAT AND I DIDN’T KNOW THIS THAT GOATS DO NOT LIKE ASTROTURF. IS THAT ACCURATE. YES THAT FOR A FACT OR IS THAT ONE OF THOSE YOU JUST MAKE IT UP TO? >> KUNIN . >> HAGEL IN THE CORNER CENTERS STOLEN AWAY. RODRIGUES HAS BENNETT OUT OF THE BOX. OH, AND IT’S TIPPED AWAY BY GONCALVES OR SAM BENNETT WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL ALONE. BENNETT WORKS DOWN LOW CENTERS. RODRIGUES HUNTS IT DOWN. FORSLING BIG SLAP SHOT BLOCKED IN FRONT. EKBLAD SHOOTS. THAT’S BLOCKED BY LILLEBERG. LILLEBERG TRYING TO MOVE IT AHEAD. COULDN’T DO IT. AND NOW GONCALVES AT CENTER. TAMPA BAY ZERO FOR THREE IN THE PENALTY ON THE POWER PLAY. RATHER, THE PANTHERS HAVE A SHORTHANDED GOAL ON THE PENALTY KILL. CARTER VERHAEGHE . HE’S GOT THREE STANLEY CUPS, ONE WITH TAMPA, TWO WITH THE PANTHERS OVER THE LAST HALF DOZEN YEARS. AND BENNETT HAD A LITTLE SOMETHING GOING AT CENTER ICE. THEY’LL SEPARATE. >> IT’S GOING TO BE A PENALTY. I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE ON GEEKIE. TOOK AN EXTRA LITTLE LIBERTY ON BENNETT. >> SO TARASOV ON THE BENCH. PANTHERS TRYING TO GET MOVING I ONE. IS. HOCKEY. >> AND WHEN YOU. >> PLAY THE WHOLE. >> CONOR GEEKIE THE LATEST TO TO GO INTO THE PENALTY BOX AND A PENALTY FILLED FIRST PERIOD CROSS CHECK. >> YEAH. THAT WAS A CROSS ON BENNETT. THEY CAME TOGETHER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ICE. AND AFTER THAT JONAH GADJOVICH WENT OVER AND HAD A LITTLE CONVERSATION WITH CONOR GEEKIE. >> SO HERE’S THIS POWER PLAY UNIT FOR THE PANTHERS. YOU SEE BRAD MARCHAND WITH SAM BENNETT STILL AMAZING. THEY’RE TEAMMATES. THAT’S OKAY. SAM REINHART. AND THEN THE TWO DEFENSEMEN JONES WILL BE UP HIGH. EKBLAD OVER ON THAT FLANK. >> AND OPPORTUNITY TO WORK ON THAT POWER PLAY IN REAL TIME. AS THEY SAY. >> GAME SITUATION. >> YEAH. AND FORSLING GOT THE ONLY ASSIST ON THE GOAL, BY THE WAY, A LOT OF SPECIAL TEAMS HERE IN THE FIRST. BENNETT PULLED THE DRAW TO THE BOARDS. REINHART CHASES AFTER THE PUCK AND CONTROLS. TAKEN AWAY AND CLEARED TO CENTER. SAM REINHART CUP WINNING GOAL TWO YEARS AGO. THEN PUT UP FOUR GOALS IN THE CLINCHER BACK IN JUNE. FINISHED THE STANLEY CUP FINAL THIS YEAR ON A FOUR GAME GOAL STREAK SCORED IN EVERY GAME. GAME THREE. ON BENNETT. THE FEED SHOT BY REINHART COMES AROUND THE BOARDS MARCHAND AFTER IT AGAINST JENSEN, THREE BEHIND THE TAMPA NET. MOSER GETS TO IT. >> KEEP AN EYE ON NUMBER 5. AARON EKBLAD OF THE PANTHERS. GET THAT FULL POSSESSION AND THEY’LL TRY THAT BUMP PASS DOWN ON THE GOAL LINE AND THEN BACK TO MAYBE TO EKBLAD COMING IN ON THE ON THE OFF WING. >> MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH WITH A GOOD SHOT. HE JUST CAME ON THE ICE, RACED IN HALVERSON MADE THE SAVE HAY PANTHERS PLUS SEASON PASS IS NOW AVAILABLE. YOU CAN STREAM ALL OF OUR LOCALLY PRODUCED GAMES ALL SEASON LONG ON THE GO IN OUR VIEWING AREA FOR ONLY $69.99. TONIGHT’S GAME. SATURDAY’S GAME IS FREE, SO GO TO PANTHERS PLUS DOT TV OR SIMPLY GO WHEREVER YOU DOWNLOAD APPS AND JUST DOWNLOAD THE PANTHERS PLUS APP. PANTHERS WEEKLY PRIME TIME SHOW IS ON THERE. ALL OF THE PREGAME SHOWS, EVEN ON THE NATIONALLY TELEVISED GAMES, INCLUDING TUESDAY AT 4:00. THEY’RE ON THE APP AS WELL. IT’S A GREAT WAY TO GO FOR IT, SO SIGN UP AND FOLLOW US ALL SEASON LONG AS THEY GO FOR A THREE-PEAT. TAMPA KILLING SOME TIME HERE ON THE PENALTY KILL. NOW THE SECOND UNIT RODRIGUES FOR HAGEL LUNDELL AND JEFF PETRY, THE VETERAN DEFENSEMAN HAGEL IN AFTER THE LOOSE PUCK SLAPS IT AT THE SHARP ANGLE. TARASOV WAS READY. HERE COMES MACKEY THROUGH CENTER ON THE WING. VERHAEGHE WITH SPEED. CROSS-ICE FEED. LUNDELL WITH A CHANCE SAVE BY HALVERSON. PETRY STRAIGHT ON LUNDELL ONE TIMER THAT’S BLOCKED BY CARLILE. LUNDELL MOVES IT ALONG. CIRELLI GOT TO IT. >> NICE SPEED THROUGH THAT NEUTRAL ZONE. BACK OFF. BACKING OFF THE TAMPA DEFENSE AND THEN WITH THE SHOT FROM THE OUTSIDE. >> MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH 15 GOALS LAST YEAR . NOW 22 YEARS OLD. AND HE CAN SCOOP PENALTIES OVER KIKIS OUT OF THE BOX. SO EACH TEAM NOW ZERO FOR THREE ON THE POWER PLAY. THE DIFFERENCE THE SHORTHANDED GOAL BY LUOSTARINEN CHERNOV SHOOTS. TARASOV DROPPED DOWN. HE MAKES THE SAVE. FIRST CHANCE FOR TAMPA TO. WHILE THEY HAD THOSE OPPORTUNITIES EARLY ON, PANTHERS TIGHTENED IT UP. BUT ONCE AGAIN TARASOV HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING. AS HE WAS LAST WEEK IN CAROLINA. DELIVERED SHOOTS THAT MISSES. CROZIER MOVES IN. HE FIRES, KNOCKED DOWN IN FRONT AND JESPER BOQVIST TAKES A HIT FROM GOURDE. BJORKSTRAND TAKES THE PUCK FOR THE LIGHTNING, SO AFTER THE KILL , SOME ZONE. TIME FOR TAMPA. CUT IN BLOCKS. THE SHOT. THIS ONE GETS THROUGH TARASOV. ANOTHER SAVE WITH GOURDE RIGHT IN HIS FACE. TARASOV GAVE A LITTLE SHOVE. GET OUT OF HERE! LILLEBERG MISSES HIGH. YANNI GOURDE ON A LOOSE PUCK. BALL SIZE, SPEED UP HIGH. BJORKSTRAND IN FRONT. GOURDE THE PASS. OH, WHAT A STOP! TARASOV DROPPED THE STICK LAID DOWN AND GOT TO IT. KUCHEROV OFF THE BENCH. TARASOV, WITHOUT HIS STICK OUT IN FRONT. ANOTHER SAVE BY TARASOV. HE ROBBED LILLEBERG STILL WITHOUT HIS GOAL. STICK. TAMPA STILL WITH IT. CROZIER SHOOTS AND IT’S DANIIL TARASOV ABSOLUTELY PUTTING ON A SHOW. AND NOW KUNIN GETS INTO IT. >> AS WE SAW A FEW DAYS AGO IN CAROLINA. >> O’NEILL . >> TARASOV IS. YEAH. AND NOW IT’S SPILLING OVER AGAIN. LOOKED LIKE THE OFFICIALS HAD SEPARATED GOURDE AND CARLILE. >> AND GOURDE IS ONE OF THOSE PLAYERS HE KEEPS ON CHIRPING AND THE PANTHERS WON’T PUT UP WITH THAT. >> WHAT A DISPLAY OF GOALTENDING BY TARASOV. AND THIS LAST HAD TO BE OVER A MINUTE. MULTIPLE SCORING OPPORTUNITIES. LOOK AT HOW HE STRETCHES OUT THAT ONE RIGHT THERE. SOMEHOW WITH THE INSIDE OF HIS BLOCKER ON. AND HERE’S ANOTHER ONE COMING ACROSS WITH NO GOAL STICK. PANTHERS WERE HEMMED IN THEIR OWN ZONE. THERE WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT TAMPA MAKE A COUPLE OF SAVES. KUCHEROV CAME ON TO THE ICE. >> SO GOURDE TO THE BOX. GADJOVICH IS IN AS WELL. WE’LL GET AN ANNOUNCEMENT HERE. >> FLORIDA NUMBER 12. MINOR PENALTY SLASHING FLORIDA 71. MINOR PENALTY ROUGHING TAMPA 37. MINOR PENALTY. ROUGHING POWER PLAY TAMPA. >> ALL RIGHT. EXPLAINED QUICKLY BY JOHN HEBERT. THERE LIGHTNING ALREADY FOURTH POWER PLAY OF THE GAME. IT HAS BEEN FEISTY HERE TONIGHT. >> THEY. >> PAUL MAURICE TRYING TO GET AN EXPLANATION HERE. >> DANIIL TARASOV IN THE PRESEASON. HIS LAST FOUR PERIODS OF HOCKEY. HE HAS MADE 62 SAVES ON 64 SHOTS. REMEMBER THE GAME IN CAROLINA? IT WAS AHO AND EHLERS AND JARVIS ALL IN THAT GAME TONIGHT. WE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TAMPA BRINGS TO THE TABLE. HE HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING. YOU JUST SEE THAT RANDY, FOR HIS SIZE, THE PHYSICAL ABILITY. AND WE SAW IT IN COLUMBUS OVER THE YEARS AS WELL. >> YEAH. AND THE WAY HE CAN RECOVER AFTER HE’S HAVING TO BE PULLED OUT OF POSITION AND THEN RECOVER AND STILL TRACK THAT PUCK DOWN AND THEN ALLOW THE REFLEXES TO MAKE THE SAVE. >> NOW FOR THE PANTHERS WITH THAT EARLY PENALTY ON GREER GREER GADJOVICH AND KUNIN, THE ENTIRE LINE IS IN THE PENALTY BOX RIGHT NOW. >> HERE THEY ARE. AND THEN YOU SEE THE OFF ICE OFFICIALS THAT ARE IN THERE. I MEAN, IF ANYBODY ELSE, ANY OTHER PLAYERS GO IN THERE, HE’S GOING TO ASK FOR A CAN OF FEBREEZE AND MAYBE A STICK OF DEODORANT. >> YOU JUST LOOK AT CONNOR. HE JUST FITS IN WITH THE TWO OF THEM. HE’S LOOK AT HIM. THEY LOOK PLAY OFF. IN PLAYOFF MODE. WITH THE YEARS GOING. YEAH, LUKE KUNIN JUST, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THOSE GUYS BEEN AROUND THE LEAGUE AND BRINGS AN EDGE TO THE GAME. REAL LEADER KUCHEROV SLICK MOVE CARRIES IN AND HE’LL CIRCLE IT BACK. BJORKSTRAND KUCHEROV PRESSURED BY FORSLING GOT RID OF IT AND TIPPED AWAY. PUSHED OUT FORSLING. >> SURE JON COOPER IS GOING TO REMIND HIS TEAM THAT YOU KEEP FORCING THAT PUCK INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE ICE. THE PANTHERS, WITH THE POSITIONING AND THE STICKS. IT’S NOT WORKING. >> DARREN RADDYSH TRIES TO SET IT BACK UP. BJORKSTRAND IN THE SLOT, AND WHO ELSE? TARASOV SIXTEENTH SAVE OF THE PERIOD. >> WELL, ONE THING THAT YOU KNOW, THE SKILL LEVEL OF THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING, THEY THE WAY THEY SNAP THAT PUCK AROUND, THEY’LL PULL YOU OUT OF POSITION. AND THAT’S WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO NEED YOUR GOALTENDER. JUST THAT LAST SEQUENCE RIGHT THERE. SHOT LOCATION AND AN EASY GLOVE SAVE. 16 SAVES SO FAR. >> AND THERE HAVE BEEN A HANDFUL OF GREAT ONES. >> AROUND ALL THE OTHER PARTS OF THE PLAY PERIOD. >> HALVERSON LOOK. >> OUT . >> SHORTHANDED. LUOSTARINEN SCORED. HE COULDN’T GET TO THE PUCK WHEN HE CAME OUT OF HIS NET. RODRIGUES TIED UP WITH RADDYSH IN BEHIND THE PLAY. THEY’LL SEPARATE POINT CENTERING KUCHEROV THE FEED THE SHOT, AND THIS TIME THEY SCORE. WE’RE TIED. JAKE GUENTZEL MAKES IT ONE ONE. >> THIS TIME THAT EXTRA PASS AND IT WORKED. KUCHEROV LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GOING TO SHOOT THAT PUCK. LIGHTNING ON THE POWER PLAY. LOOK AT HE TAKES IT AND HE JUST FAKES IT BACK OVER TO GENSEL. AND NO CHANCE FOR TARASOV. HE WAS PLAYING KUCHEROV ALL THE WAY . CAME OUT TO CUT DOWN THE ANGLE AND THEN THE PASS GOES BACK TO JAKE GUENTZEL AND HE SLIDES IT IN. YOU SEE THERE 41 GOALS LAST YEAR. JAKE GUENTZEL. >> YEAH, HE WON’T MISS ON THOSE . SIGNED A LONG TERM DEAL LAST YEAR HERE IN TAMPA. SO THE LIGHTNING GET THE GOAL BACK. FINAL MINUTE OF THE PERIOD. BROUGHT TO YOU BY ANNA JARED LEVINE FOR HIS SHOT KICKED OUT BY HALVERSON . REINHART GETS TO THE REBOUND. PUCK CAME OUT OF HIS OWN. SO ONE FOR FOUR FOR THE LIGHTNING. ON THE MAN ADVANTAGE IN THE GAME TONIGHT. BOTH GOALS SPECIAL TEAMS. FIRST OF SIX PERIODS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS BETWEEN THESE TWO TEAMS AND PRESEASON ACTION. AND WE GO TO THE DRESSING ROOM. >> EVEN LOTS OF PENALTIES, LOTS OF SCORING CHANCES, GREAT SAVES BY TARASOV AND THE GAME IS TIED AT ONE. >> FIRST INTERMISSION. COMING UP, IT’S BROUGHT TO YOU BY BAPTIST HEALTH. JESSICA AND RANDY LIVE HERE IN TAMPA. ED JOVANOVSKI IS ON ASSIGNMENT TONIGHT, SO WE’LL GET BACK SATURDAY. WE’LL HEAR FROM EETU LUOSTARINEN WITH KATIE AS WELL. PANTHERS AND >> WELCOME TO OUR FIRST INTERMISSION REPORT, BROUGHT TO YOU BY BAPTIST HEALTH. A HIGHLY ENTERTAINING FIRST PERIOD. AND THAT MIGHT BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT. THROUGH 20 MINUTES OF PLAY, WE ARE ALL TIED UP AT ONE APIECE HERE INSIDE THE ARENA. JESSICA BLAYLOCK ALONG WITH JOE OR EXCUSE ME, ED JOVANOVSKI ON ASSIGNMENT ALONGSIDE RANDY MOLLER AND RANDY. YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THAT FIRST PERIOD, THE SAVES, THE GOALS, THE ROUGH STUFF. THAT FIRST PERIOD FELT LIKE A REGULAR SEASON GAME. >> YEAH, THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. IT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH TO IGNITE THE FIREWORKS WITH THESE TWO TEAMS, BUT A LOT OF SKILL ON THE ICE. AND, YOU KNOW, UP UNTIL THAT LAST LATE IN THE FIRST PERIOD WHERE TAMPA BAY DID CASH IN ON THE POWER PLAY, I THOUGHT THE PANTHERS PENALTY KILLING WAS EXCELLENT. THEIR POSITIONING, THEY ENERGY LEVEL. AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE PANTHERS CAPITALIZE ON A MISTAKE BY HALVERSON THEIR GOALTENDER IN A SHORTHANDED GOAL. BUT I WASN’T SURPRISED. BOTH THESE TEAMS TRYING TO GET READY FOR THE REGULAR SEASON AND THE ENERGY LEVEL IS HIGH, AND I EXPECT THE PHYSICALITY TO CONTINUE. >> LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE GOALS FROM THE FIRST PERIOD. THEY BOTH CAME ON SPECIAL TEAMS, STARTING WITH A SHORTHANDED GOAL. THE GREAT WORK HERE BY EETU LUOSTARINEN. >> YEAH, ANTICIPATING THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE CONFUSION WHEN THAT PUCK WAS DUMPED OUT AND SITTING THERE RIGHT AT THE BLUE LINE. HALVERSON THE GOALTENDER. HE JUST WASN’T TOO SURE WHETHER HE COULD COME OUT AND GET TO THAT PUCK. HE HESITATED. LUOSTARINEN WITH THE UNDERRATED SPEED PLAYS IT RIGHT, DEFLECTS IT DOWN IN HIS GLOVE, PUTS IT DOWN THE ICE, GETS AN EMPTY NET GOAL TO OPEN UP THE SCORING. >> GAVE THE PANTHERS THAT 1-0 LEAD. NOW THE PANTHERS DID KILL OFF THREE PENALTIES, BUT ON THE FOURTH POWER PLAY FOR THE LIGHTNING, THEY WOULD CAPITALIZE. >> YEAH, IT. >> LOOKED LIKE WHEN THAT BACK WENT CENTERING THERE TO KUCHEROV THAT HE WAS GOING TO FIRE THE PUCK AND TARASOV WAS ANTICIPATING THAT HE PULLED HIMSELF UP, CAME OUT. THAT’S THE RIGHT MOVE. BUT THEN WHAT A WORLD CLASS PASSER KUCHEROV IS, PUTS IT BACK AGAIN AND HE GETS A POWER PLAY GOAL TO TIE IT UP LATE IN THE FIRST. >> YEAH, TOUGH TO DEFEND THAT ONE. WE KNOW HOW ELITE THE LIGHTNING POWER PLAY CAN BE. BUT OTHER THAN THAT REALLY HONESTLY DANIIL TARASOV PUTTING ON A SHOW IN THAT FIRST PERIOD. >> WELL HE JUST KEEPS IMPRESSING HOW LIKE I MENTIONED THAT HOW HE RECOVERS AFTER HE MAKES ORIGINAL SAVE AND THAT EVEN WITH THE TRAFFIC OUT IN FRONT, HE’LL FIND A WAY TO GET HIS BODY OUT IN FRONT AND MAKE THOSE STOPS. MAYBE HE SHOULDN’T REALLY REALISTICALLY MAKE. THERE’S ONE RIGHT THERE WHERE HE JUST THROWS OUT THAT RIGHT PAD. HERE’S ANOTHER ONE. ALL KINDS OF BUMPING TRAFFIC IN FRONT THAT’S SO DIFFICULT FOR A GOALTENDER. BUT THERE’S ANOTHER. INCREDIBLE JUST RECOVERS AND COMES BACK BECAUSE HE ANTICIPATES, WELL THAT THAT’S WHERE THE LIGHTNING PLAYER IS GOING TO PUT THAT PUCK. SO HE’S RIGHT ON TOP OF HIS GAME. THE SECOND GAME IN A ROW THAT HE’S BEEN VERY, VERY GOOD. >> SOME SERGEI BOBROVSKY LIKE SAVES FROM DANIIL TARASOV IN THAT FIRST PERIOD. STILL MORE TO COME ON OUR FIRST INTERMISSION REPORT. BROUGHT TO YOU BY BAPTIST HEALTH. WHEN WE RETURN WE’LL CHECK IN WITH KATIE ENGLESON WHO HAD A CHANCE TO CHAT WITH THE PANTHERS GOAL SCORER >> WELCOME BACK TO OUR FIRST INTERMISSION REPORT, BROUGHT TO YOU BY BAPTIST HEALTH. THE SHORTHANDED GOAL FOR THE PANTHERS, A POWER PLAY GOAL FOR THE LIGHTNING. AND WE ARE ALL TIED UP AT ONE APIECE. LET’S GET IT OVER TO KATIE ENGLESON AND EETU LUOSTARINEN. >> ET YOU GOT THE SCORING STARTED WITH A BEAUTIFUL SHORTHANDED GOAL. TAKE US BACK TO THIS OFF SEASON. WHAT WAS YOUR SUMMER LIKE IN TERMS OF FOCUSING ON THIS UPCOMING SEASON? >> YEAH. >> I MEAN. >> OF COURSE IT WAS A LONG SEASON AGAIN, SO JUST TOOK SOME TIME OFF AND RELAXED AND SPENT TIME WITH FAMILY AND THEN OBVIOUSLY GET BACK TO WORK PRETTY SOON. AND THEN IT’S JUST HARD WORK. AND THEN COMING FOR THE GAME. >> PAUL MAURICE CONTINUES TO EMPHASIZE HOW BRAD MARCHAND ALLOWS YOU AND ANTON LUNDELL TO THINK THE GAME MORE OFFENSIVELY. WHAT STANDS OUT TO YOU IN THAT REGARD? LOOKING BACK AT THOSE LAST 20 MINUTES? >> YEAH, I THINK I’LL TRY TO MAKE A FASTER DECISIONS WITH THE PUCK. ALWAYS HERE MARCHAND LUNDELL HEALING. SO THAT’S A GOOD THING. AND IT’S JUST I THINK WE CAN HOLD ON TO PUCKS MORE. JUST KEEP IT UP THEN. >> NOW IT’S ONLY THE PRESEASON. BUT THINGS LOOKED PRETTY FEISTY OUT THERE ON THE ICE AGAINST TAMPA. HOW WOULD YOU PUT INTO WORDS THIS BATTLE OF FLORIDA RIVALRY? PRESEASON EDITION? >> YEAH, I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE ALWAYS AGAINST THIS TEAM. IT GETS A LITTLE FEISTY. BUT IT’S IT’S HOCKEY. AND THERE’S A LOT OF EMOTIONS INVOLVED, BUT, YEAH, IT’S STILL GOOD HOCKEY. AND I MEAN, A LOT OF PENALTIES TO TRY TO GET THAT FINAL FIVE A LITTLE BIT, BUT YEAH, IT WAS STILL A PRETTY GOOD HOCKEY. >> AT DUKE. THANKS FOR THE TIME. THANK YOU GUYS. WE’LL SEND IT BACK TO. >> YOU. THANKS, KATIE. HEY PANTHER FANS, YOU’RE REIGNING BACK TO BACK STANLEY CUP CHAMPION. PANTHERS ARE DROPPING THE PUCK ON THE SEASON ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7th AT 5:00 P.M. ARRIVE EARLY TO CATCH OUR STANLEY CUP CHAMPS BANNER RAISING DURING PREGAME. LIMITED TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE. VISIT FLORIDA PANTHERS.COM NOW TO WITNESS HISTORY WHEN WE RETURN FROM HERE IN TAMPA, WE WILL GET TO THAT ROUGH STUFF FROM THE FIRST PERIOD. THE BATTLE FOR WELCOME BACK TO OUR INTERMISSION REPORT, BROUGHT TO YOU BY BAPTIST HEALTH. A LOOK AT THE STATS. AFTER ONE PERIOD OF PLAY. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JUMPS OUT, ALL OF THE POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES SO FAR IN THIS ONE. AND RANDY, THAT’S BECAUSE THINGS GOT A LITTLE BIT PHYSICAL IN THAT FIRST PERIOD. >> WELL, THERE WAS ONLY TEN MINORS IN A MISCONDUCT AND THERE’S GREER WITH HAGEL AND HAY AND THEN EVERYBODY’S GOING TO JUMP IN AND THAT PENALTIES GALORE IN THAT FIRST PERIOD. AND WHAT EXPECTED THERE IN RODRIGUES HE TAKES A HIT AND THE PLAYERS COMING IN. THERE’S BENNETT GEEKIE COMES IN AND TAKES A PENALTY ON THAT PLAY. AND THEN THERE’S SOME MORE ROUGH STUFF. AFTER CANAAN TAKES HIS MAN OUT RIGHT BESIDE THE PANTHERS NET AREA AND LOTS OF CONVERSATION. NO SURPRISE AT ALL. THE RIVALRY IS ALIVE AND WELL. >> I THINK. SO. I THINK THERE’S A THERE’S GOING TO BE A LOT OF CHATTER THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE SEASON BETWEEN THESE TWO TEAMS AND THE CONTINUING RIVALRY BETWEEN THE PANTHERS AND THE LIGHTNING. A COUPLE OF PLAYS THAT STUCK OUT TO YOU. WHAT WERE THEY, RANDY, AND WHY? >> WELL, AS I MENTIONED, THEY’RE WORKING ON THEIR SYSTEMS AND THAT’S FORECHECK, BACK. AND SPECIAL TEAMS. HERE’S A GOOD BACKCHECK BY THE FLORIDA PANTHERS RIGHT HERE. THEY’RE COMING BACK AND HELPING THE DEFENSE FORCE. THE PUCK CARRIER WIDE. LOOK AT THEY CLOSED THE GAP DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE ICE. THAT’S TEXTBOOK RIGHT THERE. AND THEN YOU MOVE TO YOU KNOW THE PANTHERS WERE SHORTHANDED FOUR TIMES IN THAT FIRST PERIOD. SO TAMPA LOVES TO PUSH THAT PUCK INTO THE MIDDLE RIGHT THERE. AND IT GOES OFF OF KULIKOV THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES. THE PANTHERS MADE SOME GREAT DEFENSIVE PLAYS WHILE THEY WERE SHORTHANDED. UNFORTUNATELY, TAMPA DID GET THE POWER PLAY GOAL LATE IN THE FIRST. >> WELL, THAT FIRST PERIOD WAS ACTION PACKED. WHAT DO YOU ANTICIPATE SEEING IN THE SECOND PERIOD? >> OH, SAME THING, SAME THING AS WE HAVEN’T REALLY SEEN TOO MUCH OF BENNETT OR MARCHAND IN THE PARTY. AND AARON EKBLAD AS WELL. BUT I MEAN, BOTH THESE TEAMS ARE SO PROUD AND AND THERE’S, THERE’S SOME HATRED THERE, AND IT SPILLS OVER FROM YEAR TO YEAR. YEAH, BUT IT’S GOOD INTENSITY AND IT’S FAST OUT THERE AS WELL. I ANTICIPATE THAT THERE’S GOING TO BE A LOT MORE SPECIAL TEAMS FOR BOTH SIDES HERE. IN THE LAST TWO PERIODS. >> IT’S BEEN A FUN ONE SO FAR, SO LET’S KEEP IT GOING. WHEN WE RETURN, WE WILL GET THE MIDDLE FRAME UNDERWAY FROM HERE IN TAMPA ALL KNOTTED UP AT 1-1 THROUGH 20 MINUTES OF ACTION >> FLORIDA PANTHERS HOCKEY ON SCRIPPS SPORTS IS SPONSORED BY ABA CENTERS OF FLORIDA. PROUD AUTISM CARE. PROUD SPONSORS OF THE FLORIDA PANTHERS BY SANDALS, THE OFFICIAL ALL INCLUSIVE CARIBBEAN RESORTS OF THE PANTHERS, AND CAREPLUS HEALTH PLANS. ONE PERIOD COMPLETE IN TAMPA TONIGHT, AND IT’S A 1-1 GAME. THE PANTHERS AND THE LIGHTNING. WELL, THE BARE KNUCKLE FIGHTING CHAMPION. ICE WARS COMING IN AMERANT BANK ARENA OCTOBER 10th. THEY’LL BE NO STICKS, NO PUCKS, NO GOALS, NO GLOVES, JUST FIGHTS. SO GET YOUR TICKETS NOW. SEATGEEK AT AMERANT BANK ARENA. DOT COM. WE SAW A LOT OF THE ROUGH STUFF IN THE FIRST PERIOD HERE IN TAMPA TONIGHT. >> YEAH, IT’S ALWAYS INTENSE WHEN THESE TWO TEAMS MEET, WHETHER IT’S REGULAR SEASON PLAYOFFS. WE KNOW THAT EVEN PRESEASON, BOTH GOALS SCORED ON SPECIAL TEAMS. PANTHERS GET AN GET A SHORTHANDED GOAL. EETU LUOSTARINEN AND THEN GENSEL WITH THE POWER PLAY GOAL. THERE YOU SEE, COMBINED FOR A FEW PIMS, AS THEY SAY LAST SEASON . TEN MINORS AND A MISCONDUCT IN THE FIRST PERIOD. >> AND BRENDAN HAGEL AND THE PANTHERS. THERE’S NO LOVE LOST THERE. SO WE’LL SEE HOW THINGS MATERIALIZE. OF COURSE, THIS IS JUST THE FIRST OF SIX PERIODS BETWEEN THE TWO TEAMS. WE’RE BACK WITH YOU SATURDAY NIGHT FROM AMERANT BANK ARENA PANTHERS THE LIGHTNING 6:30 WITH THE PREGAME 7:00 GAME TIME. >> I’M GOING TO PUT THE TINFOIL ON HIM THAT GAME ON SATURDAY. >> GOALIE YOU’RE GOING TO BRING YOUR TOYS? SURE. OKAY. BRING BRING YOUR RACE CAR SET. LUOSTARINEN AND FINLEY OVER THERE BATTLING OFF THE DRAW. WE GET A PENALTY IMMEDIATELY. THEY WERE HAVING WORDS. THEY WERE GOING AT IT. THIS ONE WILL BE ON THE LIGHTNING MOSER. AND NOW MARCHAND. OH, BOY. >> WELL, JAMES IS THE ONE THAT WITH THE CROSS-CHECK ON LUNDELL RIGHT AFTER THEY DROPPED THE PUCK FOR THE SECOND PERIOD AS THE PUCK WENT INTO THE PANTHERS ZONE. NOW THERE’S MORE CONVERSATION. OH BOY TAMPA 17 MINOR PENALTY CROSS-CHECKING. CROSS-CHECKING CALL. RIGHT. WATCH THIS RIGHT AFTER THE DRAW. NO, THAT’S NOT THE CROSS-CHECK. HE ALREADY TOOK ONE. THERE’S THE THE OTHER. CROSS-CHECK. SO HE GOT TWO FOR ONE AND BARELY STARTED THE SECOND PERIOD. >> 9 SECONDS INTO THE PERIOD. SO THE PANTHER POWER PLAY GOES TO WORK. TRYING TO ANSWER THE TAMPA MAN ADVANTAGE. NOW THE OFFICIAL HAVING A LONG TALK THERE. YOU SEE WITH BRAD MARCHAND. MARCHAND AND MOSER STILL GOING AT IT. MARCHAND GOES RIGHT TO THE FRONT OF THE NET. THE SHOT GETS THROUGH AND REINHART CHIPS IT UP. MOSER AND MARCHAND CONTINUE. JOCELYN CHERNIAK WITH A HIT ON MARCHAND PANTHERS WORK IT FREE. SETH JONES WITH THE PUCK. JONES WILL SPIN BACK NOW. BENNETT AS THE PANTHERS GET SET UP ON THE POWER PLAY. EKBLAD FOR JONES. HE’S GOT BENNETT TOP OF THE CIRCLE. BENNETT SHOOTS BLOCKED DOWN. REINHART SNAPPED IT UP TO THE BOARDS AND AROUND. IT COMES FOR EKBLAD. PANTHERS STAY IN THE OFFENSIVE END. BENNETT LOOKS JONES AT THE LINE. THERE’S THE ROSTER SCORE. MARCHAND WAS OUT IN FRONT AND THE PANTHERS HAVE A 2-1 LEAD ON THE POWER PLAY GOAL. >> WHAT AN AWARENESS THERE BY SETH JONES. YOU’RE GOING TO SEE. HE JUST LIFTED HIS HEAD WHEN HE GOT CONTROL OF THE PUCK. HE REALIZED MARCHAND WAS CAMPED RIGHT OUT IN FRONT OF HALVERSON. THE GOALTENDER. AND THIS IS HOW THIS PLAY DEVELOPS. MARCHAND DELIVERS IT NOW. HE GOES AND GETS IN FRONT OF THE NET AND JONES JUST A LITTLE WRIST SHOT. AND REINHART WAS THERE WITH HIS STICK UP AS WELL FOR A POSSIBLE DEFLECTION. GOES UP HIGH AND IN BACK OF THE NET. POWER PLAY GOAL. >> ALL THREE GOALS IN THE GAME SCORED ON SPECIAL TEAMS. PANTHERS LEAD FOR THE SECOND TIME. UNDISCIPLINED PLAY BY THE LIGHTNING. TAKING THE PENALTY, GIVING THE PANTHERS A MAN ADVANTAGE. OOH! AND THEN RADDYSH AFTER THE ICING AND BOQVIST GOT INTO IT. JESPER DIDN’T LIKE IT. TOOK A LITTLE SWIPE THERE . BOQVIST ANOTHER PLAYER LAST YEAR. CAREER YEAR FIRST AS A PANTHER. >> NOW RACE FOR A LOOSE PUCK. THEY BLEW THE WHISTLE DOWN AND RADDYSH DECIDED, WELL, I’LL JUST FINISH MY CHECK. EVEN THOUGH THE WHISTLE WENT AND BOQVIST WITH A LITTLE SHOVE. WE ASSUME THAT BRAD MARCHAND WILL BE CREDITED WITH THAT POWER PLAY GOAL. I BELIEVE IT WENT OFF OF HIM. >> BOQVIST TAKES THE DRAW. AS MENTIONED LAST YEAR, 78 GAMES AND 12 GOALS. CAREER HIGH FOR HIM. WE HAVE SAID THAT SO MANY TIMES OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS OR SO ABOUT PLAYERS THAT HAVE BECOME PANTHERS AND JUST PLAY THEIR BEST HOCKEY. TARASOV, ANOTHER STOP. HE HAD 18 SAVES IN THE FIRST PERIOD AND OUTSTANDING WORK. SMUSHKEVICH CENTERS ALL THE WAY THROUGH POINT CHECKED BY BOQVIST. KUCHEROV PICKS UP THE LOOSE PUCK. HE MOVES OUT TO CENTER. KUCHEROV DANCES OVER THE PANTHER LINE. RODRIGUES RIGHT THERE WITH HIM AND FORCES THE TURNOVER. GOOD DEFENSIVE WORK. A HELP FROM MIKKOLA AS WELL. NOW CUNNINGHAM COMES ON . HE AND LILLEBERG BANGED INTO EACH OTHER IN BEHIND THE PLAY. LILLEBERG AND KUNIN HAVING SOME WORDS. WELCOME TO THE RIVALRY. LUKE KUNIN. >> ALL RIGHT, LET’S GO BACK AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE POWER PLAY GOAL. AND WE’VE A DIFFERENT ANGLE HERE. IT’S SETH JONES IS THE ONE THAT DELIVERS THAT PUCK. IT’S GOING HIGH NOW. GOES OFF OF RIGHT THERE. BRAD MARCHAND IT. IT WENT RIGHT BY MOSER AND IT WENT OFF OF MARCHAND UP HIGH BY THE SHOULDER I BELIEVE. BUT RIGHT NOW THEY’VE THEY SAY THAT IT’S SETH JONES GOAL . MARCHAND. SO THEY CHANGED IT NOW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> YOU KNOW, IF HE GETS A PIECE OF IT WITH A STICK, IT’S PROBABLY A HIGH STICK. HIT HIS BODY. PETRY FIRES BLOCKER SAVE DOWN LOW BY HALVERSON. PETRY AND KULIKOV DEFENSE PAIR FOR THE PANTHERS. KIKI TOOK A RUN THERE AT PETRY. PANTHERS BREAK IT OUT AND PUT IT IN BEHIND THE TAMPA NET. GADJOVICH WITH THE PRESSURE. GOOD HIT ON KARLSSON. GONCALVES UP THE BOARDS. CIRELLI THAT’S OUT. KIKI AND PETRY AGAIN. KULIKOV COMES IN, CHECKED BY CIRELLI. LUNDELL UP THE BOARDS. MARCHAND FED IT AHEAD OFF THE STATE OF LUOSTARINEN. TAMPA WILL HOLD IN FOR NOW ANYWAY. KULIKOV TRACKS IT DOWN. HE GETS HIT HIGH AND HARD BY GEEKIE. >> EVERY PLAYER NOW HAS TAKEN EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A RUN. >> AND NOW A PENALTY. AND THEN CIRELLI HITS LUOSTARINEN. THIS ONE IS ON THE PANTHERS. >> YEAH, IT’S GOING TO BE KULIKOV. >> PETRY IS HAVING SOME WORDS. TAKES A CROSS-CHECK BEHIND THE PLAY FROM CIRELLI, AND CIRELLI IS GOING TO GO NOW. JOHN BEARS NOT PUTTING UP WITH IT. CIRELLI WITH THE WHACK THERE IT PETRY AND THINGS ARE GOING TO EVEN UP AND IT CONTINUES TO BE A NASTY GAME TONIGHT. >> AS I MENTIONED THIS, BOTH TEAMS AND ALL PLAYERS, IF THEY’VE GOT A CHANCE TO TAKE A RUN AT ONE OF THE PLAYERS ON THE OTHER SIDE, THEY’RE TAKING THAT OPPORTUNITY. >> MINOR PENALTY 7 FOR SLASH AFTER THAT 71 CROSS-CHECK AND MINOR PENALTY FOR UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT. >> OH, AND TWO EXTRA FOR THE UNSPORTSMANLIKE. WOW. >> YEAH. TAKE A LOOK. HERE’S THE ORIGINAL CALL. KULIKOV TAKES TAKES THE HIT RIGHT THERE. AND THEN THERE’S THE SLASH. AS KULIKOV GOES BACK AT GEEKIE. >> YEAH. THE HIGH HIT BY GEEKIE WAS WASN’T PENALIZED. AND PAUL MAURICE WANTS THE EXPLANATION. HE HAD AN INKLING THE COACH THAT. HEY, THIS THING COULD BE PRETTY NASTY HERE TONIGHT. WE’LL SEE HOW IT GOES. YOU KNOW, IT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH WITH THESE TWO TEAMS. ONE HIT, ONE SLASH AND AWAY WE GO. SO THEY’VE GOT TO SORT IT OUT. TAMPA’S GOT TO SEND THE EXTRA MAN TO THE PENALTY BOX WITH THE EXTRA TWO FOR THE UNSPORTSMANLIKE. PANTHERS JUST SCORED THEIR GOAL ON THE POWER PLAY. MARCHAND FROM JONES AND BENNING. HERE’S JONES WITH IT AGAIN. HERE’S DENIS IN BEHIND THE TAMPA NET, LEADS IT FOR MARCHAND. YANNI GOURDE TRYING TO CLEAR MARCHAND RIGHT ON THE LINE. HE HELD IT IN, BENT IT IN FRONT, DEFLECTED WIDE BY REINHART EKBLAD HAD THAT PUCK LOOSE BY. HE’LL GET BACK AFTER IT. >> NUMBER THREE SETH JONES AND. SHOT 55 SECONDS. >> REINHART FOR DENIS. SLOWED DOWN AT THE LINE ON A DEFLECTION. JONES TRYING TO GET TO THE PUCK AND A ROLL TO CENTER. HE GOT THERE AHEAD OF GENSEL. EKBLAD WITH MOSER. CHAFFEY POPPED IT FREE HALFWAY THROUGH THE PANTHERS POWER PLAY. EKBLAD GOING AT IT WITH MOSER IN FRONT OF THE TAMPA BENCH. THEY’RE STILL TANGLED UP. AND FINALLY THEY SEPARATE. NOW THE PANTHERS ROLL THE POWER PLAY UNITS. RODRIGUES MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH FOR HAGEL ALONG WITH LUNDELL AND PETRY. NOW ON THE ICE. HERE COMES RODRIGUES OUT OF HIS OWN END . GETS OVER THE LINE. PUCK DEFLECTED TO THE CORNER. LUNDELL IS ON IT. RODRIGUES NICELY LET IT GO THROUGH TO PETRY SHOT IS STOPPED. SECOND SHOT ON GOAL TONIGHT FOR THE 37-YEAR-OLD VETERAN DEFENSEMAN. FIRST YEAR AS A PANTHER. VERHAEGHE GIVES BACK. PETRY HAS LUNDELL LUNDELL IN FRONT. COULDN’T GET A REDIRECTION. NOW CARTER VERHAEGHE TAKES A SHOT BLOCKED BY LILLEBERG AND THAT’S ALL THE WAY DOWN. AND THAT’LL DO IT FOR THE POWER PLAY. >> VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE COACHES TO GET THE STAY WITH THEIR ORIGINAL LINES. WITH ALL THESE SPECIAL TEAMS. POWER PLAYS AND PENALTY KILLING, BOTH TEAMS, THEY LINED ALL FOUR LINES ARE ALL SCRAMBLED UP NOW. >> A.J. GREER IS FINALLY BACK ON WITH KUNIN JONAH GADJOVICH THEY GO AFTER GREER JONAH GADJOVICH STEPS IN AND HERE WE GO AGAIN. EVERYBODY’S GOT A PARTNER. RADDYSH TAKES DOWN GREER. GREER IS BACK UP AND GREER IS THROWING. >> A . >> BRIERE’S GOT THE RIGHTS FREE ON RADDYSH. AND STILL TANGLED UP RADDYSH HAS A FISTFUL OF JERSEY . >> OH. OVERHAND RIGHT, ANOTHER ONE. >> TO SEPARATE GADJOVICH FROM CARLILE AND DRAGGING THOSE TWO UP AT CENTER ICE, THERE’S GREER, WHO HAD THE PHYSICALITY WITH HAGEL IN THE FIRST, AND AS SOON AS HE GOT BACK ON THE ICE, THE LIGHTNING WENT AFTER HIM. AND GADJOVICH HAS SOME WORDS TO CARLILE BETWEEN THE PENALTY BOXES. >> I DON’T I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE THE LIGHTNING HERE. THEY’RE TRYING TO PLAY THIS AND AND START SOME FIGHTS WHATEVER WITH THAT LINE ON THE ICE. GADJOVICH AND GREER. HERE’S HOW IT ALL STARTED. PUCK GOES AROUND. THEN THERE YOU SEE GREER GETTING JUMPED FROM BEHIND. AND THEN I THINK YOU SEE THE END OF THE FIGHT HERE WITH GREER GETTING ONE IN THERE, AND THEN THIS ONE HERE. BANG! AND DOWN GOES RADISH. >> ALL RIGHT, JOHNNY BEARS GOT HIS WORK CUT OUT FOR HIM HERE ON THE MIC. >> TAMPA ORIGINAL MINOR FOR ROUGHING 67. TAMPA 43, FLORIDA 12. FIVE MINUTES EACH FOR FIGHTING. >> AND A COUPLE FOR ROUGHING. AND A COUPLE FOR FIGHTING. IT’LL EVEN OUT. THOSE TWO MEN RIGHT THERE. OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS. FIVE YEARS HAVE WON BACK TO BACK STANLEY CUPS APIECE. PANTHERS AND LIGHTNING HAVE PLAYED IN THE PLAYOFFS FOUR TIMES. THE WINNER OF THE SERIES HAS GONE TO THE STANLEY CUP EVERY TIME, AND WON IT THREE TIMES. THESE TEAMS KNOW WHOEVER GETS OUT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS A GREAT CHANCE OF WINNING THE STANLEY CUP. JUST A FACT . >> NOW THERE WAS NO CHANCE. NOW THAT WE WE’RE NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH THE GAME, THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE WHAT THEY CALL SOMETIMES A NO HITTER. IT’S FAR FROM THAT . PANTHERS ARE GOING TO GET A POWER PLAY OUT OF THIS. >> NOW LET’S SEE. LET’S SEE THEM SORT THIS OUT, BECAUSE THEY ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS EVEN THOUGH, AS YOU SAY, THERE’S ONLY FOUR LIGHTNING PLAYERS ON THE ICE. SO PERHAPS AN EXTRA TWO. >> YEAH. >> HANG ON, MAYBE THEY’RE TAKING GADJOVICH OUT . >> YEAH. HE DOESN’T GET A PENALTY. AND THEN CARLILE WAS THE ONE THAT THE ORIGINAL THAT THAT GRABBED GREER FROM BEHIND. >> FREE GADJO. HE’S BACK GOING TO CROSS HIM OFF THE LIST. HAVE A VERY LONG. I USE THE SAME SCORE SHEET FOR YEARS. >> AND YOU ONLY GOT TWO SPOTS LEFT. THAT’S IT. GOOD FOR THE PENALTIES? YEAH. >> AND IT IS RARE THAT I EVER USE IT ALL UP AND WE’RE NOT EVEN. WE’RE 25 MINUTES INTO THE GAME AND WE’RE PLAYING AGAIN ON SATURDAY. >> AS I SAID BEFORE. >> TWEETED OUT, YOU CAN SEE. >> THE THE SCORE, THE SCORE SHEETS GOING TO LOOK LIKE A CBS RECEIPT. >> THE ONLY BUSIER SCORE SHEET. THE BUSIEST ONE WAS THE NICK BJUGSTAD GAME WINNER, THE 20 ROUND SHOOTOUT AGAINST WASHINGTON. I HAD NO ROOM GOING ON THERE. BACK IN DECEMBER OF 2014, I BELIEVE. OUT IN FRONT, MARCHAND GETS BACK. THIS IS EKBLAD OVER TO BENNETT. LETS IT FLY. THAT’S BLOCKED. OH, AND THAT EKBLAD IS JUMPED BY GOURDE. YANNI GOURDE HAS GOT HIM IN A HEADLOCK. LOOK AT MARCHAND AND MOSER AS WELL. SWINGING STICKS . IT JUST DOES NOT STOP. AND THIS I BELIEVE WILL FILL UP THOSE FINAL TWO SHEETS. AND ON MY SHEET AND CHERNIAK CAUGHT SOMETHING UP HIGH. HE’S GONE TO THE DRESSING ROOM. EKBLAD UNHAPPY WITH MOSER. HE’S A BLOCKED SHOT BY CHERNIAK THAT SENDS HIM OFF THE ICE. WOW. >> ALL RIGHT, WE’LL TAKE A LOOK HERE AT THE BLOCKED SHOT. THERE’S CHERNIK COMES OUT AND. OH, MAN, THAT. YEAH, THAT PUCK JUST RAMPED UP AND HIT HIM HIGH OFF THE STICK THERE. BENNETT. AND THEN HERE’S EKBLAD. AND YANNI GOURDE. AND THEY SAY HELLO. HOW WAS YOUR SUMMER? >> FOR RUFFING 37 TAMPA 4 MINUTES FOR RUFFING. WOW. DOUBLE MINORS. FOR EACH OFF THAT THAT’S KIND OF. >> IS THAT A STATEMENT BY THE REFS? HEY GUYS, SETTLE IT DOWN . BECAUSE IT DIDN’T LOOK LIKE DOUBLES, DID IT ? HE WASN’T THAT BAD. >> YOU KNOW, ALL OF THIS. THE PANTHERS STILL STAY ON THE POWER PLAY. >> AARON EKBLAD WHAT A PLAYER. 11 YEARS AS A PANTHER RE-UPPED FOR EIGHT MORE. THIS OFF SEASON . FLAT OUT GAMER HAY AND GUSTAV FORSLING HAVE MADE UP. I THINK THEY’RE UNDERRATED. THEY DON’T GET MENTIONED THAT MUCH EITHER. ONE OF THEM INDIVIDUALLY, BUT AND AS A PAIR, WELL, JUST GO WATCH THE PLAYOFFS. THEY GO AGAINST THE TOP LINES ALL THE TIME. >> AND SO MANY OF THESE PLAYERS, THERE’S ANOTHER ONE, OF COURSE. OBVIOUSLY WITH BENNETT YOU DON’T WIN THE STANLEY CUP WITHOUT A FULL ROSTER. AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS EVERYBODY UP AND DOWN THE LINEUP. >> I LOVE THE QUOTE FROM NIKO MIKKOLA. THEY SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, ALL THE BOYS ARE RESIGNING. SO IT JUST SEEMED NATURAL FOR ME TO RESIGN. HE SIGNED FOR EIGHT YEARS, ANNOUNCED TODAY. IF YOU MISSED IT. SO THAT TOP FIVE ON DEFENSE FOR THE PANTHERS ALL SIGNED TO AT LEAST 2028 AND THE TOP FOUR. ARE FOUR OF 11 PLAYERS SIGNED THROUGH THE END OF THE DECADE. AT LEAST. >> THE NUMBER. 37. INCREDIBLE. WITH THE FLORIDA PANTHERS OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT RIGHT ON THROUGH TO THE PLAYERS AND EVERYBODY ON THAT TEAM AND THAT STAFF HAVE BUILT IN SOUTH FLORIDA. >> REINHART SWINGS IT AROUND THE BOARDS FOR MARCHAND TO GIVE TO BENNETT, AND NOW PETRY SCOTT REINHART SETH JONES PANTHERS GO TO D WITH JONES AND PETRY ON THE MAN ADVANTAGE. PETRY IS IN THAT SPOT WHERE EKBLAD WAS ON THAT FLANK. THERE HE IS WITH IT AT THE CIRCLE. REINHART FOR PETRY. GATHERS IT IN. SETH JONES ON THE LOOSE. PUCK. REINHART HAD HIS HELMET KNOCKED OFF. HE GOES TO THE BENCH. SEAN COMES RODRIGUES AND THE PUCK IS RIGHT THERE FOR HIM. SAM BENNETT CROSS-ICE FEED PLAYED OFF THE BOARDS AND NOW TAMPA WILL GET IT CLEAR. >> YEAH, YOU GIVE FULL MARKS TO TAMPA THOSE FOUR PENALTY KILLERS AND NOW YOU SEE MORE COLLISIONS AS PLAYERS GO TO THE BENCH. >> FOR LIGHTNING, PLAYERS ARE IN THE PENALTY BOX AND SCHIRNACK LEFT THE GAME AFTER TAKING THAT PUCK IN THE FACE OF THAT BENCH ON THE LIGHTNING SIDE IS PRETTY SKINNY RIGHT NOW. MOSER HAMMERS LUNDELL AND THAT’S A PENALTY IN BEHIND THE PLAY. J.J. MOSER JUST A DIRTY PLAY THERE ON ANTON LUNDELL. SAM IS GIVING HIM AN EARFUL. LOOK AT MACKEY . >> NOW HERE WE GO AGAIN. >> YEAH, THEY SAW SMUSHKEVICH AND MOSER AND EVERYBODY COMES OVER FOR THE PANTHERS RODRIGUES RODRIGUES TIED UP. CHAFFEE IS TRYING TO GET IT. FORSLING. WOW, THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING ELSE TONIGHT. FOR HARDY AND LIEBENBERG JAMMED UP. MOSER JAMS INTO THAT PENALTY BOX. THEY GOT A WHOLE TEAM IN THERE, AND THEY’RE STILL GOING AT IT . GENSEL TRYING TO GET IT. >> WELL, YOU KNOW, THE PANTHERS ARE NOT GOING TO PUT UP. THERE’S GOING TO BE A CHEAP SHOT LIKE THAT. THERE’S GOING TO BE A RESPONSE. AND GOOD ON MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH TO MAKE HIMSELF, AS WE SAY, AVAILABLE. AND THE RESPONSE AND THAT I MEAN, EVERY PLAYER ON THE ICE EVAN RODRIGUES NO DIFFERENT. >> YEAH. THE PANTHERS, THEY STILL GOT SEATS IN THE BOX. TAMPA’S GOT NOTHING. THERE’S NO ROOM. >> TAMPA BAY, NUMBER 11, MINOR PENALTY. CLOCK WAS. CLEARED. NUMBER 11, FOUR MINUTES. AND HERE’S LUNDELL. AND THEN HE GETS CROSS-CHECKED AS HE’S TRYING TO GET BACK INTO THE PLAY BY MOSER. >> AND THEN SMUSHKEVICH CAME OVER AND HAD WORDS. FORSLING WAS THERE. AND THEN EVERYBODY JUMPED INTO THE DEEP END OF THE POOL. JAKE CHAFFEE ., I BELIEVE FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT IT WILL BE A TAMPA POWER PLAY BECAUSE 4 MINUTES FOR ROUGHING FOR SAM BOSKOVICH AND ONLY TWO FOR MOSER, WHICH REALLY WAS A DIRTY PLAY IN BEHIND ON LUNDELL IN FRONT OF THAT NET. THERE’S A ROOM FOR A STICK OF GUM IN THAT TAMPA BAY PENALTY BOX. >> NOW THEY GOT LIKE THE SARDINE CAN GOING IN THERE. SO HE’S GOT NO SEAT AND. YANNI GOURDE IS UP. NOW CARLILE ONLY HAS 3 SECONDS LEFT ON HIS PENALTY, SO. >> YEAH, GOOD LUCK TRYING TO OPEN UP THE GATE. >> HE’S GOT TO GET HIM OVER HIS BUDDIES TO GET OUT OF THERE. SAM BENNETT JUST GOT THAT WRY SMILE. >> OH, AND. OH, YEAH, WE HAVE ONE MORE, ONE MORE PRESEASON GAME SATURDAY NIGHT. GUESS WHO? >> AGAINST MORE THAN HALF OF THIS ONE. STILL A GAME AND A HALF LEFT BETWEEN THESE TEAMS. SAM BENNETT MIGHT BE THINKING, YOU KNOW, BACK IN JUNE AT AMERANT BANK ARENA , EDMONTON KIND OF TRIED THIS AGAINST US AND THAT DIDN’T WORK VERY WELL. NOW THERE’S THE TAMPA BENCH WITH ALL THE GUYS IN THE BOX AND CHERNIACK OUT OF THE GAME. IT’S IT’S LONELY THERE. LOOKS LIKE THE 11:30 P.M. BAPTIST HEALTH ICEPLEX ADULT LEAGUE GAME START WHERE THEY JUST DON’T HAVE THAT MANY BODIES. SO CIRELLI HE GOT OUT OF THE BOX, HE’S OVER ON THE BENCH. >> AND RIGHT BEFORE THAT, AS WE SAW, MCCORNACK TOOK THAT SHOT UP HIGH AND HIT HIM IN THE FACE. UPPER BODY AREA AND HE WENT RIGHT DOWN THE TUNNEL INTO THE LIGHTNING LOCKER ROOM. >> SO PAUL MAURICE ELECTS TO SEND CARTER VERHAEGHE TO THE PENALTY BOX. JUST BECAUSE HE HASN’T SAT THERE YET. KIDDING. HONESTLY, THEY HAD AN EXTRA MAN FOR SMUSHKEVICH WITH THE 4 MINUTES THAT HE GOT, SO HE WENT TO THE BOX. AND HERE’S THE TWO FINS WITH DIMITRI KULIKOV ON FOR THE PANTHERS ON THE PENALTY KILL ALONG WITH MIKKOLA. GOOD DAY FOR NIKO MIKKOLA. EIGHT YEARS LOCKED IN. WHAT A SIGNING BY THE PANTHERS. NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. PLAYED FOR ST. LOUIS IN THE RANGERS. PANTHERS SCOUTING. DID A GREAT JOB. HE COULD FIT IN HERE AND ALL HE’S DONE IN HIS TWO YEARS IS WIN TWO STANLEY CUPS AND BRINGS THE EFFORT EVERY SINGLE SHIFT. NIKO MIKKOLA AND THEY SAY HE’S ONE OF THE FUNNIEST GUYS AS WELL ON THE BENCH. >> THE. >> PART OF THIS PANTHERS TEAM. SO THE LIGHTNING ON THE POWER PLAY. IT’S A FIVE ON FOUR. >> HAY NIKO MIKKOLA. >> KUCHEROV INTO THE PANTHERS ZONE. BACK FOR GUENTZEL. TRY TO FEATHER ONE THROUGH KULIKOV HOPS ON THE LOOSE PUCK. PANTHER POWER PLAY GOAL IN THE OPENING MINUTE OF THE PERIOD . MARCHAND GOT IT FROM JONES AND BENNING FOR A 2-1 PANTHER LEAD. TARASOV WAS AMAZING IN THE FIRST PERIOD. PANTHERS DONE A GOOD JOB, ONLY ALLOWED ONE SHOT ON GOAL SO FAR IN THE SECOND. HE HAS NOT BEEN BUSY AND THAT’S NOT ALWAYS EASY FOR A GOALTENDER. POINT OVER TO CROZIER BACK FOR BRAYDEN POINT JONES AN EYE ON HIM. KUCHEROV PRESSURED BY BOQVIST . THERE’S POINT AT THE DOCK CENTERING FEED ALL THE WAY THROUGH EVERYONE AND BOQVIST TIPS IT RIGHT ON THE LINE. HELD IN THREE PUCK JONES GETS TO IT. >> BASICALLY, FOR BOTH TEAMS, I THINK IT’S WITH ALL THE PENALTIES AND AND NOT THAT IT’S ALMOST NEXT MAN UP WHO’S READY ON THE BENCH. NEVER PLAY POWER PLAY. NO. GET UP THERE. >> ESPECIALLY ON THAT TAMPA SIDE. YOU’RE RIGHT. THAT BENCH IS THIN RIGHT NOW. PANTHERS LOOKING FOR ONE MORE CLEAR ON THE KILL. LILLEBERG PLAYS AT THE POINT. KUCHEROV IN FRONT. JANSSON TOOK THE BLOCK FOR HADES OUT OF THE BOX AND HE JOINS THE PLAY FOR A CHANGE. WHERE FIVE ON FIVE. STEAL RODRIGUES READ THE PLAY BEAUTIFULLY. WALKS IN AND FIRES BLOCKED AWAY BY LILLEBERG. RODRIGUES READ THAT HE TOOK ABOUT SIX STRIDES BEFORE HE EVEN GOT TO THE PUCK, AND NOW A TWO ON ONE DEVELOPS. IF THEY HURRY FOR THE PANTHERS GOT BACK THERE DEFENSIVELY AND A GOOD STICK BY JONES BROKE IT UP. FORSLING GOT IT AHEAD TO BENNETT, SWEEPS IT OUT TO CENTER. REINHART BACK FOR BENNETT ON THE WING. TAKES A LOOK. CENTERS IT COMES ALL THE WAY THROUGH. OVER. HE GOT HIT BY CHAFFEE. PETRY GOOD. STICK THERE TO GET A STEAL ON THE ATTEMPTED BREAKOUT BY KIKI. HE CROSSED THE MIDWAY POINT . IT HAS BEEN A MEAN PENALTY FILLED NIGHT SO FAR IN TAMPA BETWEEN THE PANTHERS AND THE LIGHTNING. YOU CAN’T BE SHOCKED BY THAT. LUOSTARINEN LEADS THE BREAK OUT LOOKING FOR THE THREE ON TWO. HERE’S LUNDELL BACK FOR RETO. LOOKING IN FRONT. OH WHAT A BIG SAVE BY HALVERSON ON MARCHAND. WHAT A BREAKOUT AND WHAT A SETUP BY THE LUNDELL LINE. >> NOW ALL THREE TOUCHED THAT PUCK. MARCHAND WAS THE LAST ONE AND LOOKED LIKE HE HAD PLENTY OF NET TO PUT THAT IN BEHIND. HALVERSON. >> HERE COMES MARCHAND AGAIN OFF THE WING. HE CENTERS AGAIN, WENT RIGHT THROUGH CIRELLI AND LUNDELL THAT TIME. CERNAK IS BACK FOR TAMPA. BJORKSTRAND PUT IT OUT IN FRONT OF THE PANTHER NET. LUOSTARINEN THERE DEFENSIVELY. WELL POSITIONED. JONES GETS THE RED LINE AND SHOOTS IN AND JONES TAKES A PUNCH FROM GONCALVES OUT AT CENTER. SHOT FROM THE BOARDS. STOPPED BY HALVERSON. >> OH, HERE WE GO. >> GAJOVIC IN BEHIND THE PLAY AND RIGHT HANDS HERE AT CARLILE. GAJOVIC WAS ALL OVER IT . >> I THINK HE GOT IT A COUPLE OF GOT HIT. THE HELMET, BUT BOY GAJOVIC WAS JUST THROWING HIM. THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR THOSE PLAYERS TO GET THE GLOVES OFF. >> AND THEY WERE MIXED UP. TWO WEEKS FOR ROUGHING IN ONE OF THE >> IS. >> WELL, THE FISTICUFFS CONTINUE TONIGHT IN TAMPA. >> YEAH. BEFORE THAT THOUGH, HERE’S A FAST BREAK BY THE FLORIDA PANTHERS. LUOSTARINEN OVER TO LUNDELL. BACK TO LUOSTARINEN. AND HERE COMES BRAD MARCHAND. ENTERS THE PICTURE AND TAKES IT. AND EVEN BETTER SAVE THERE HALVERSON. THAT’S THE BEST OF OF THE GAME SO FAR. AND THEN YOU’LL SEE GADJOVICH AND CARLILE REMEMBER, THEY GOT MIXED UP BEFORE AND THEN THEY GO RIGHT BACK AND THEN GADJOVICH JUST GETS THE RIGHT GOING. 5 MINUTES EACH FOR FIGHTING. >> THERE’S ALL THE PENALTIES. UNREAL. THEY FIGURED, YOU KNOW, ALL THE OTHER PENALTIES WERE BASICALLY UP. EVERYONE’S GETTING FREE IN THE BOX. SO. OH , GADJOS HAPPY CARTER VERHAEGHE IS BACK NEXT TO HIM. HE’S SMILING. HE’S GOT A LITTLE COMPANY. >> NOW THE PANTHERS GOING TO BE SHORTHANDED AGAIN. >> JONAH GADJOVICH TWO TIME STANLEY CUP CHAMPION. WHAT A JOB. THAT LINE WITH NO SET GREER JONAH GADJOVICH DID LAST YEAR DURING THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS. BJORKSTRAND COULDN’T CORRAL THAT PUCK. JONES GOES GLASS FOR THE CLEAR. >> PLAY. >> THERE’S BEEN MORE SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYED SO FAR IN THIS GAME THAN THERE HAS BEEN FIVE ON FIVE. >> ALL THE. >> GOALS ON SPECIAL TEAMS SHORTY AND A POWER PLAY GOAL BY THE PANTHERS, LUOSTARINEN AND MARCHAND JAKE GUENTZEL. THE POWER PLAY GOAL FOR TAMPA THAT CAME LATE IN THE FIRST PERIOD. STEEL LUOSTARINEN TRYING FOR ANOTHER SHORTY AND TWO ON THE BREAKAWAY AND IT GOES HIGH OVER THE NET. OH, HE HAD ANOTHER CHANCE THERE. LUOSTARINEN AND KUCHEROV NOW HAMMERING AWAY AT EACH OTHER. NO PENALTY. THE OFFICIAL MARKOVIC WENT FOR THE WHISTLE, BUT THEN HE SAW THEM SEPARATE. SO LET IT GO. A.J. GREER GETTING SOME PK TIME. WE’LL CLEAR THE ZONE. CLEAR CUT FOR LUOSTARINEN ON THAT ONE. >> YEAH, WELL, THAT WAS KUCHEROV THAT SERVED UP THAT PIZZA. >> PUCK ROLLED ON NET AND TARASOV, IT HAS BEEN A QUIET PERIOD FOR HIM. TAMPA HAD 19 SHOTS IN THE FIRST. ONLY ONE HERE IN THE SECOND. THAT ONE OFF THE BACK OF THE NET IS BOQVIST BUZZING AROUND IN THE OFFENSIVE ZONE. NOW . CHAFFEY OUT TO CENTER FOR THE LIGHTNING, STOPS TO THE PANTHER LINE. PETRY CUTS IT OFF. PETRY AGAIN AND THIS TIME SMARTLY GETS THE CLEAR. TOOK A HIT FROM GEEKIE AS HE DID THAT. VERHAEGHE WAITING TO GET OUT OF THE BOX. GEEKIE AFTER THE LOOSE PUCK ALONG THE BOARDS. MOSER FEEDS CHAFFEY. KULIKOV BLOCKED THE PUCK. IS BACK >> TWO. ONE PANTHER LEAD. EETU LUOSTARINEN HAD A CHANCE TO ADD TO IT. >> THAT IT WAS KUCHEROV WITH THE RISKY PASS BACK ACROSS THE SEAM AND THEN PICKED OFF BY EETU LUOSTARINEN MAKING A NICE MOVE, BUT HE JUST HE JUST FLIPPED IT TOO HIGH. HALVERSON HAD ALREADY STARTED GOING DOWN INTO HIS CROUCH. THE TOP OF THE NET WAS OPEN, AND THEN LUOSTARINEN AND KUCHEROV. THEY DECIDE TO SAY HELLO AND SEPARATE. >> DANIIL TARASOV GETTING HIS FIRST LOOK AT THIS PANTHERS LIGHTNING RIVALRY. I’LL BE VERY CURIOUS TO CHAT WITH HIM IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND JUST SEE. WHAT’D YOU THINK OF THAT? HE’S WATCHING ALL THIS. WOW. LET’S NOT FORGET HE WAS INCREDIBLE DURING THAT FIRST PERIOD WITH SOME ACROBATIC SAVES. OFF THE DRAW, LILLEBERG TAKES A SHOT. KICKED OUT BY TARASOV. BOARD WORK FOR THIS PUCK. PANTHERS WIN THE BATTLE . VERHAEGHE IS OUT. CHIPS IN. FINISHED THE CHECK ON LILLEBERG. EKBLAD SHOOTS BLOCKED AWAY IN FRONT. LUOSTARINEN WENT DOWN. CHERNOCK AHEAD. CHAFFEY TO THE PANTHER LINE. GONCALVES. FORSLING GOT HIT BY CHAFFEY. THAT’S A PENALTY! PANTHERS DIDN’T LIKE THAT. AND MORE PUNCHES BEING THROWN. CIRELLI IS TRYING TO GET IT. FORSLING GUSTAV, THIS IS PRESEASON. I GOT NO INTEREST IN THAT. EKBLAD NOW TAKES HIS MAN DOWN AND ONE MORE TIME. IT’S A PANTHERS LIGHTNING GET TOGETHER. >> YOU DON’T WANT TO BE IN THE BOTTOM OF THAT PILE. >> WELL, THAT’S GONCALVES YOU IN SOME WAYS STARTED THAT WHOLE THING AND LILLEBERG WITH FORSLING. >> THERE’S BEEN MORE STICKS ON THE ICE IN THIS GAME THAN IN THE HANDS OF THE PLAYERS. >> GUSTAV NOT LET HIM GET AWAY. >> WITH IT. >> CROZIER LUOSTARINEN GONCALVES GRABS H2 AGAIN. >> WELL, THE REFEREES, YOU KNOW THIS. PLAYERS CAN START TO GET HURT AND THAT IT’S UP TO THE OFFICIALS NOW TO TO MAYBE JUST START HANDING OUT 10-10 MINUTE MISCONDUCTS . >> TORELLI STILL TRYING TO GET IT. FORSLING GETS TO YOUR POINT, RANDY. CIRELLI IS GOING TO THE BOX . EKBLAD JONAH GADJOVICH JUST CHATTING AWAY IN THEIR BOX. STILL PROBABLY HAVE SOME COMPANY SOON. >> WELL, HERE’S HOW IT ALL STARTED. BATTLE ON THE BOARDS AND FORSLING GOT HIT THERE BY FROM BEHIND AND THEN EVERYBODY JUMPED IN AND. >> GOT. >> NOW WE GOT A BUNCH OF STINKY GLOVES IN THE FACE AND. >> THAT ORIGINAL CALL WAS ON CHAFFEY. YOU KNOW, TO YOUR POINT, HE GAVE GUSTAV FORSLING THAT BUMP. THEY DID CALL THAT A PENALTY. >> YEAH, THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL CALL. >> YEAH. KEEP IT UNDER CONTROL. AND IT GOT FEISTY AFTERWARDS. SO A BEAR AND MARKOVIC HAVE TO MAKE MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS. >> TAMPA 41 MINOR PENALTY. HIGH STICK. FLORIDA NUMBER 5. HE’S GOT A 10-7 LEAD. TAMPA ALSO HAS A TEN MINUTE MISCONDUCT. >> SO POWER PLAY FOR THE PANTHERS. CHAFFEY WITH THE PENALTY. AND THEN AS YOU SAID, 10 MINUTES FOR CIRELLI AND EKBLAD. LET’S GO FOR A WORD RIGHT NOW FROM ABA CENTERS. >> ONE IN 31 CHILDREN IS DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM. THE EARLIER CARE BEGINS, THE BETTER THE OUTCOMES. ABA CENTERS HAS IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY FOR DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENTS AND THERAPY . >> ALL RIGHT. WE GET SOME MORE PENALTIES IN THE THIRD PERIOD. THOSE OFFICIALS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE THE BATTERIES IN THEIR MIX. >> IT’S JUST WILD. SO THE PANTHERS GET A POWER PLAY. >> I CAN’T REMEMBER THE LAST GAME WHERE THERE’S BEEN MORE SPECIAL TEAMS THAN FIVE ON FIVE. >> AND THIS IS JUST WILD. BOTH TEAMS ARE ONE FOR SIX ON THE POWER PLAY. WE’RE IN THE SECOND PERIOD. PANTHERS CONTROL THE FACE-OFF AGAIN. PETRY IS IN THAT SPOT FOR EKBLAD. SO TWO DEFENSEMEN ON THE ICE FOR THE PANTHERS SETH JONES WITH THE PUCK. BENNETT FLIPS FOR JONES, SETTLES IT DOWN. JONES WILL SHOOT BLOCKED DOWN IN FRONT BY LILLEBERG AND CLEAR. TARASOV GETS A RARE TOUCH HERE IN THE SECOND PERIOD. ANOTHER CLEAR FOR THE LIGHTNING. SHOTS ON GOAL IN THE SECOND PERIOD. 6-3. IN FAVOR OF THE PANTHERS. CLOSING IN ON 5 MINUTES TO GO IN THE SHOT. REINHART ACROSS. MARCHAND LOOKING FOR BENNETT. HE’S PRESSURED. MARCHAND JUMPS BACK IN. PETRY GETS IN THERE, KEEPS IT ALIVE. REINHART PUTS IT OUT IN FRONT. HE’S TIED UP BY MOSER . NOW EVAN RODRIGUES CROSS-ICE PASS FOR HAGEN. TRYING TO GET BY. GOURDE. HE DOES. GOURDE PRESSURES AND GORD’S GOT IT NOW. LOOKING FOR A CHANCE. HAS A MAN IN FRONT BLOCKED AWAY? GUSTAV FORSLING MAKES THE DEFENSIVE PLAY. LITTLE TWO ON ONE DEVELOP. THERE. HERE’S GORD AGAIN. DROP PASS TAKEN BY THE PANTHERS. RODRIGUES TURNS AHEAD. HALVERSON CUTS IT OFF. PUT IT IN THE CORNER FOR HICKEY. TRYING TO GET TO IT AND BOQVIST ACROSS FOR RODRIGUES. HERE’S GUSTAV FORSLING NOW. MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH WALKS IN AND FIRES BLOCKED AWAY BY CHERNOCK. POWER PLAY IS OVER. CHAFFEY IS BACK. >> GREAT. >> GRABBED AGAIN BACK AT THE TAMPA BLUE LINE AND OFFICIALS ARE GOING TO CALL ANOTHER PENALTY. THIS ONE’S ON FINLEY. I MEAN, WHAT ARE THEY DOING OUT THERE TO GUSTAV FORSLING? MY GOODNESS, HE’S JUST SHAKING HIS HEAD SAYING, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? HE HAS TO SAY IS CATS WEL LONGEST PERIODS YOU’LL EVER SEE IN THE PRESEASON. STILL, 3:37 TO GO. AND PANTHERS ARE ON THE POWER PLAY AGAIN. >> YEAH. AND THERE’S GUSTAV FORSLING JUST FINISHING HIS CHECK A LITTLE BUMP AND THEN FINLEY DECIDES WELL. AND HE NOT ONLY TAKES THE 2 MINUTES, HE GETS 10 MINUTES AS WELL. SO. I’M NOT SURE IF FINLEY REALLY THOUGHT GUSTAV FORSLING WAS GOING TO DROP THE GLOVES WITH HIM, OR I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE THOUGHT. >> SO THE PENALTIES CONTINUE TO PILE UP. PANTHERS ARE ONE FOR SEVEN TONIGHT. LIGHTNING ARE ONE FOR SIX. PANTHERS DO HAVE A SHORTHANDED GOAL. LET YOU KNOW THE REIGNING BACK TO BACK STANLEY CUP CHAMPION PANTHERS ARE BACK FOR THE NEW SEASON. SINGLE GAME TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE FOR ALL REGULAR SEASON HOME GAMES. GO TO FLORIDA. .COM. REGULAR SEASON BEGINS NEXT WEEK WITH THREE IN A ROW AT HOME. REMEMBER, OPENING NIGHT? GET TO YOUR SEATS EARLY, FACE OFF 5:00 TUESDAY AGAINST CHICAGO, A NATIONAL TELEVISION GAME WILL HAVE A VERY SPECIAL LIVE PREGAME SHOW FOR YOU, STARTING AT 4:00 FOR ONE HOUR, YOU CAN GO TO THE PANTHERS DOT TV AS WELL, OR DOWNLOAD NOW. THE PANTHERS PLUS APP. REST OF THE PRESEASON IS FREE, AND THEN YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR THE FULL SEASON. GREAT DEAL, $69.99. YOU GET EVERY GAME. TAKE US WHEREVER YOU ARE IN THE VIEWING AREA. ALL THE PREGAME SHOWS AND PRIME TIME PANTHERS THE WEEKLY SHOW, ALONG WITH OTHER SPECIAL CONTENT ON THEIR. JONES KEEPS THIS PUCK IN THE ZONE. SETH JONES OVER TO MARCHAND TRY TO GET IT IN FRONT. DEFLECTED RIGHT BACK TO HIS TAPE. SAM ISCOVICH THAT GOES WIDE. REINHART WAS UPENDED BY CHERNIK POPS BACK UP IN THE PLAY. CHAFFEY SLAPS IT OUT, SO IT’S GETTING A LOOK HERE ON THIS TOP POWER PLAY UNIT. NOW. THAT SPOT THAT WAS EKBLAD WHEN THE GAME STARTED. AND THEN PETRY FILLED IT. HERE’S MCKEE ALONG THE BOARDS. TAKES A SHOT AND THAT’S UP AND OUT OF PLAY. NOW A WORD FROM FPL. >> FPL. >> WE PLAN FOR STORM SEASON ALL YEAR LONG TRAINING TEAMS TO ACT AT A MOMENT’S NOTICE. FPL WORKING FOR YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY . >> MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH GETTING IN ON THE THE PENALTIES IN THIS HOCKEY GAME. AND NOW GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY ON THE POWER PLAY. >> JONES DROPS IT OFF. REINHART SCOOPS IT UP. 39 GOALS LAST YEAR FOR SAM REINHART. 11 MORE IN THE PLAYOFFS. BENNETT PUT IT OUT IN FRONT. HALVERSON COVERS UP. >> AND A RARE WHISTLE WHEN THERE HASN’T BEEN ANY PUSHING AND SHOVING. >> HAVE THE BOYS HAD ENOUGH? WHAT’S YOUR ASSESSMENT ON IT? >> YEAH, IT GETS TO THE POINT WHERE. GET TIRED OF SKATING TO THE PENALTY BOX . MAYBE THEY’RE GIVING GIVING OUT FREE DONUTS IN THE PENALTY BOX. >> IT’S GOT TO BE SOMETHING IN THAT . SOMETHING GOING ON IN THERE? POWER PLAY CONTINUES. HE’LL DO IT AGAIN IN THE FACE-OFF CIRCLE. THEY’VE TAKEN THAT GOAL AWAY FROM BRAD MARCHAND. NOW THE GO AHEAD. SO BACK TO SETH JONES. GUESS THEY SAY IT NEVER HIT MARCHAND. IT DID HIT HALVERSON, THAT’S FOR SURE. SO JONES NOW CREDITED WITH THE POWER PLAY GOAL IN THE OPENING MINUTE OF THIS PERIOD, WHICH WAS ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO. FACE-OFF WIN FOR LUOSTARINEN PETRY TO FORSLING BROWN VERHAEGHE GOURDE ON THE LOOSE PUCK LUOSTARINEN ON HIM. CROZIER TRYING TO CLEAR. COULDN’T DO IT. FOR TAMPA BACKHANDS OUT THERE THAT HIT THE GLASS. IT WAS DEFLECTED. NO PENALTY. >> GOD FORBID THEY CALL ANOTHER PENALTY. >> EVEN IF THAT WENT RIGHT OUT, THEY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SAID FORGET IT. BUT THERE’S WORDS BETWEEN GOURDE AND RODRIGUES. NOW THERE YOU SEE HIM ? >> NOW, THE OFFICIAL TRAILING OFFICIAL WAS VERY ADAMANT THAT THAT PUCK HIT SOMETHING BEFORE IT SAILED INTO THE WHAT? THE 20th ROW ? >> FORSLING SKATING BACK BEATS GOURDE TO THE PUCK UP AHEAD, OFF FOR HAGI’S STICK. HE RECOVERS, BUT STOLEN BY DENZEL. SO CONOR GEEKIE SERVING THE TWO SET TO GET OUT OF THE BOX. NOW IS THE PENALTY BY FINLEY AND HE’S FREE AND RARE. FIVE ON FIVE PLAY. WE’LL SEE HOW LONG IT LASTS. HERE’S RODRIGUES OFF THE WING. TRYING TO PLAY IT AROUND THE BOARDS. CUT OFF. HE WENT DOWN. MOSER HAS RODRIGUES DOWN ON THE ICE BEHIND THE PLAY. RODRIGUES BACK IN IT. PICKS IT UP AT THE LINE. WALKS IN CENTERS. LUOSTARINEN TAKEN BY RADDYSH. IT’S A TWO ON ONE LOOK OUT. KUCHEROV MOVES IN WITH DENZEL KUCHEROV ON THE BACKHAND AND DENZEL OFF HIS SKATE. AND THEN TAPPED IN ON THE FOLLOW BY POINT. >> LOOKED LIKE THE PANTHERS WERE GOING TO RECOVER AFTER THIS KIND OF MISCUE. THAT LED TO THE TWO ON ONE FOR THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING. HERE’S KUCHEROV COMING IN. HE FORCES A PASS THROUGH, GOES OFF THE SKATE, BUT THEN WIDE OPEN WAS POINT COMING RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE. NOT PICKED UP. HERE’S THE PLAY AS THE PANTHERS JUST FORGOT THAT POINT WAS COMING DOWN THE MIDDLE. >> SO LIKE THE FIRST PERIOD, TAMPA GETS A LATE GOAL TO TIE THE GAME. THAT’S OUR FIRST EVEN STRENGTH GOAL OF THE NIGHT. FINAL MINUTE OF THE PERIOD SPONSORED BY ALNAJJAR AND LEVINE. BOTH PUSHED OUT OF THE NEUTRAL ZONE. JAMES GETS A HOLD OF IT, FINDS MOSER WHO SENDS IT INTO THE PANTHER END AND THE LIGHTNING. BASICALLY, IN THIS PERIOD OF ABSOLUTELY NOTHING DOING OFFENSIVELY, BUT THEY’RE ABLE TO GET THAT GOAL FROM THEIR TOP LINE TO GET THE GAME TIED. JONAH GADJOVICH CONTROLS FLIPS IT AHEAD. KUNIN GOT IT DOWN THE BOARDS. GADJOVICH AFTER IT AGAIN, BOQVIST GOT CHOPPED DOWN BY GONCALVES. HE’S OKAY. TARASOV WILL MOVE IT ALONG TO JONES FINAL SECONDS OF THE PERIOD. KUNIN SHOOTS IN, TAKES A BIG HIT FROM CHAFFEY AS HE DID. HERE’S A SHOT STOPPED CHAFFEY AND KUNIN GOING AT IT AT CENTER ICE. AND THEY’RE GOING TO CALL A PENALTY ON LUKE KUNIN AT THE END OF THE PERIOD. IT’LL BE A SLASH. THAT’S AS WILD AS YOU’LL SEE. >> YEP. AND WE STILL HAVE 20 MINUTES LEFT WITH A TIE GAME. FLORIDA 71. HERE’S WHAT’S COMING UP ON OUR SECOND INTERMISSION REPORT RIGHT HERE IN THE BOOTH. >> BLAYLOCK AND MUELLER WILL BREAK IT ALL DOWN. JESSICA’S WRITING DOWN EVERY PENALTY. I CAN GUARANTEE YOU THAT. KATIE WILL CHAT WITH SETH JONES, WHO HAS THE GO AHEAD WELCOME TO. >> OUR SECOND INTERMISSION REPORT HERE ON SCRIPPS SPORTS. THE SECOND PERIOD ENDING IN A SIMILAR FASHION TO THE FIRST PERIOD TAMPA WITH A LATE GOAL. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WE ARE ALL TIED UP AT TWO A PIECE HERE INSIDE THE ARENA. I’M JESSICA BLAYLOCK ALONG WITH RANDY MOLLER AND RANDY. I’LL GIVE GOLDY CREDIT. HIS ASSESSMENT WAS SPOT ON. I HAVE ABOUT A PAGE AND A HALF FULL OF NOTES, AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF IT IS THE PENALTIES AND THE POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOTH OF THESE TEAMS. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN A PRESEASON GAME? >> I HAVEN’T SEEN THIS MUCH AGGRESSION AND BAD BLOOD SINCE THE MUELLER FAMILY REUNION THIS SUMMER. A LOT OF A LOT OF PENALTIES AND A LOT OF THAT. THESE TWO TEAMS, AND ESPECIALLY THESE REGULARS THAT ARE THAT ARE PLAYING IN THEIR FIRST PRESEASON GAME ON BOTH SIDES, THE PANTHERS AND THE LIGHTNING. THERE’S THEY HAVE A LOT OF MEMORY GOING BACK, NOT ONLY LAST YEAR IN THE PLAYOFFS, BUT IN THE REGULAR SEASON AND THE YEAR BEFORE IN THE PLAYOFFS. AND IT GOES ON AND ON AND ON. SO THERE’S THERE’S STUFF THERE’S HISTORY BETWEEN THESE TWO TEAMS AND IT HAS COME OUT HERE. AND IN THIS MEETING BETWEEN THESE REGULARS. >> YEAH A TON OF HISTORY BETWEEN THESE TWO TEAMS AND A TON OF BAD BLOOD, WHICH HAS BEEN VERY OBVIOUS IN THIS ONE. LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE GOALS FROM THE SECOND PERIOD. START WITH THE ONE FOR THE FLORIDA PANTHERS THAT WAS CREDITED TO SETH JONES. >> YEAH, THE PANTHERS ARE ON THE HOW MANY POWER PLAYS THEY HAD, AS WELL AS THE LIGHTNING. AND THERE WAS JUST A WRIST SHOT WITH TRAFFIC OUT IN FRONT. WE THOUGHT IT WENT OFF OF MARCHAND, BUT YOU’LL SEE SETH JONES TAKE THAT SHOT. IT’S A RISING SHOT AND IT GOES OFF OF HALVERSON AND THEN BOUNCES OVER TOP AND THEY THEY ORIGINALLY GAVE IT TO JONES ON THE POWER PLAY GOAL. THEN THEY GAVE IT TO MARCHAND, BUT THEN WENT BACK TO JONES. SO THAT WAS A POWER PLAY GOAL RIGHT THERE WITH MARCHAND RIGHT IN THE PERFECT POSITION TO SCREEN HALVERSON ON THAT POWER PLAY GOAL. AND THE PANTHERS TOOK A 2-1 LEAD. >> AND THEN FINALLY WE GET A GOAL AT EVEN STRENGTH. UNFORTUNATELY, IT DOES BELONG TO THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING. >> YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. AT THE END OF THE PANTHERS POWER PLAY. AND IT TURNED INTO A TURNOVER. AND THEN YOU KNOW YOU GOT KUCHEROV WITH THAT PUCK. HE FORCES A PASS. HE GOES INTO THE SKATES AGAIN. BUT COMING RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE NOBODY HAD PICKED UP BRAYDEN POINT. AND YOU SEE THE COMMITMENT RIGHT THERE FROM TARASOV. AND HE HAD NO OPPORTUNITY EVEN THOUGH HE GOT A PIECE OF IT. BUT BRAYDEN POINT GETS A GAME TYING GOAL JUST OVER A MINUTE LEFT IN THAT SECOND PERIOD. >> YEAH, THIS HAS BEEN A WILD ONE. FORGET ABOUT IT. FEELING LIKE A REGULAR SEASON GAME. THIS ONE IS ALMOST FEELING LIKE A PLAYOFF GAME WITH THE INTENSITY THAT WE ARE SEEING OUT THERE WHEN WE RETURN ON OUR SECOND INTERMISSION REPORT HERE ON SCRIPPS SPORTS, WE WILL HEAR FROM THE PANTHERS GOAL SCORER, SETH JONES, AS HE ALSO GETS SET TO CELEBRATE A BIRTHDAY TOMORROW, AS DOE BETWEEN THE CATS AND THE BOLTS. LET’S GET IT OVER TO KATIE AND SETH JONES. >> SETH, NO LOVE LOST IN THIS BATTLE OF FLORIDA RIVALRY. HOW WOULD YOU BEST EXPLAIN WHAT TRANSPIRED THOSE LAST 40 MINUTES? >> WELL, IT’S JUST TWO TEAMS TRYING TO PLAY HARD. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY HISTORY THERE THE LAST FEW YEARS. AND TWO TEAMS GETTING READY FOR THE REGULAR SEASON, THAT’S ALL. >> IT’S ONLY THE PRESEASON. BUT HOW MUCH MORE MEANINGFUL ARE THESE GAMES WHEN IT’S AGAINST YOUR CROSS-STATE RIVAL? >> YEAH. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE WERE FOCUSED ON TRYING TO PLAY OUR GAME TO THE BEST WE CAN. AND YOU KNOW, THE GAME’S KIND OF TAKEN A TURN IN THIS MANNER, AND WE JUST WANT TO STAND UP FOR EACH OTHER AND AND DEFEND OURSELVES. >> AND HOW DO YOU GET THE GAME BACK ON TRACK? LOOKING AHEAD TO THE FINAL FRAME? >> WELL, IT’S 2-2. WE’VE GOT A LOT OF POWER PLAYS. YOU KNOW, WE SCORED ONE, BUT IT’S BEEN KIND OF DISCOMBOBULATED. SO, YOU KNOW, WE EXPECT A LITTLE MORE FIVE ON FIVE THIS PERIOD, MAYBE. AND AND TRY TO GET TO OUR GAME AND OUR FORECHECK. >> SETH THANK YOU. >> THANKS, GUYS. >> WE’LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU. >> THANKS, KATIE. HEY, KAT. FANS, VISIT PANTHERS FOR YOUR EXCLUSIVE FLORIDA PANTHERS LICENSED MERCHANDISE, INCLUDING ONE OF A KIND GAME GEAR HOCKEY INSPIRED FASHION APPAREL, AND MORE. GET YOURS WHILE SUPPLIES. LAST SHOP NOW IN STORE OR ONLINE AT TEAM SHOP.COM. THAT’S REALLY TOUGH FOR BOTH OF THESE TEAMS TO GET INTO A RHYTHM WITH ALL OF THE PENALTIES. PLENTY OF ROUGH >> WELCOME BACK TO OUR SECOND INTERMISSION REPORT HERE ON SCRIPPS SPORTS. FOUR GOALS SCORED, TWO APIECE FOR THE PANTHERS AND THE LIGHTNING IN ABOUT 12,000 PENALTY MINUTES IN THIS GAME SO FAR. HAY CATS FANS, RELIVE THE PANTHERS HISTORIC REPEAT WIN WITH THE 2025 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP FILM FEATURING PLAYERS LIKE SAM REINHART, SETH JONES, BRAD MARCHAND AND MORE. HERE’S A SNEAK PEEK. >> WHEN YOU PLAY THE SAME TEAM IN BACK TO BACK FINALS, THE RIVALRY COMPLETELY ESCALATES. >> THERE’S A LOT OF HATRED BETWEEN US. >> AND THEM. THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE WORLD GOING AT EACH OTHER. >> YES. CAN’T BELIEVE IT. MORGAN STANLEY STAYING IN SOUTH FLORIDA. >> DID THAT THING IN THE. >> WORLD GLORIOUS, BEAUTIFUL AND UNDENIABLE. >> LAST YEAR WAS A DREAM. >> THIS YEAR WAS AN. >> ACHIEVEMENT. >> WHEN YOU WIN, LIKE IT OR NOT, A LOT OF TEAMS DON’T LIKE YOU. AND THAT’S THE CASE FOR THE FLORIDA PANTHERS. AND I’M KIND OF LOVING THIS VILLAIN ERA FOR THE CATS. RANDY, LET’S GET TO OUR DRIVE TO THE FINISH LINE. SPONSORED BY LEXUS. TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THE ROUGH STUFF THAT HAS TRANSPIRED IN THIS GAME SO FAR. >> WELL, IT’S BEEN A DRIVE TO THE PENALTY BOX, THAT’S FOR SURE, BECAUSE NEITHER TEAM IS JUST ACCEPTING SOME OF THE HITS AND THERE’S JUST THE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY. SEEMED LIKE EVERY TIME THE WHISTLE IS BLOWN, WE’RE HAVING SCRUMS LIKE THAT. WE’VE HAD A NUMBER OF FIGHTS, IT’S BEEN OVER 112 PENALTY MINUTES CALLED SO FAR THROUGH THE FIRST 40 MINUTES, AND THERE’S BEEN 40 HITS AND ROUGH STUFF ALL OVER , AND NOBODY IS IMMUNE TO IT. EVEN GUSTAV FORSLING HAS BEEN IN SOME PUSHING MATCHES. MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH CARTER VERHAEGHE EVERYBODY TO A MAN IS HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ALL OF THIS SO FAR, AND THIS GAME JUST KEEPS ROLLING ON. AND YOU KNOW, BOTH TEAMS HAVE TO DECIDE. IT’S BEEN A TOUGH NIGHT FOR THE OFFICIALS TRYING. AND THEY’RE TRYING TO KEEP THE PEACE. AND THERE’S GADJOVICH WITH A REALLY GOOD FIGHT IN THAT SECOND PERIOD. AND THERE’S CIRELLI GOING AFTER GUSTAV FORSLING. IT JUST IT WAS ONE OF THE LONGEST SECOND PERIODS. BUT THE PANTHERS DON’T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE OVER IN THIS HOCKEY GAME. AND HOPEFULLY THEY CAN EXECUTE IN SOME OF THEIR SHOTS AND SOME OF THEIR SCORING CHANCES. LOOK AT THE STATS RIGHT THERE. THE PANTHERS ONLY GAVE UP, WHAT, SIX OR SEVEN SHOTS IN THAT SECOND PERIOD. THE SHOT ATTEMPTS ARE THE SAME. THERE YOU GO. THE 12 POWER PLAY SPLIT 112 PENALTY MINUTES AND ALMOST 40 HITS SO FAR. AND WE STILL HAVE THE THIRD PERIOD. >> YEAH, THAT’S THE CRAZIEST PART. WE STILL HAVE ONE MORE PERIOD TO GO. SO WHO KNOWS WHERE THOSE PENALTY MINUTES ARE GOING TO GET TO. BUT IT IS ONE THING THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY LOVE ABOUT THE FLORIDA PANTHERS. NOBODY IS BACKING DOWN WHEN IT COMES TO PROTECTING THEIR TEAMMATES, AND THAT IS A PRODUCT OF WHY WE’VE SEEN SOME OF THE STUFF THAT WE’VE SEEN IN THIS GAME SO FAR TONIGHT. >> AND NOT LOST IS DANIIL TARASOV HIS PERFORMANCE IN GOAL FOR THE PANTHERS WAS PRETTY QUIET IN THE FIRST PERIOD, BUT OR THE SECOND PERIOD? BUT IF YOU GO BACK AND YOU WATCH THAT FIRST PERIOD, I MEAN HE WAS YOU KNOW, HE’S FACED WHAT, 19 SHOTS IN THAT. SO LOOK FOR HIM TO GET BACK INTO HIS RHYTHM. AND AS YOU MENTIONED AS WELL FOR THE FLORIDA PANTHERS IT’S TOUGH FOR THE COACHING STAFF AS WELL BECAUSE OF ALL THE PENALTIES AND THAT TRYING TO PUT SOME LINES TOGETHER AND D PAIRS AND IT IS IT’S IT’S VERY CHALLENGING TO DO SO. BUT THE PANTHERS ARE GOING TO LOOKS LIKE THEY’RE GOING TO START THE THIRD PERIOD SHORTHANDED. >> ON THE PENALTY KICK. >> BECAUSE THERE WAS A PENALTY RIGHT. WHEN THEY WHEN THE BUZZER SOUND. SO PENALTY FILLED GAME PANTHERS THOUGH THEY STICK TOGETHER AS A TEAM. THAT’S THE WAY THAT THEY WON BACK TO BACK STANLEY CUPS. EVERYBODY’S GOING TO BACK EVERYBODY UP. AND THAT’S NOT GOING TO CHANGE HERE IN THE THIRD. >> WHAT ARE WE IN STORE FOR IN THE THIRD PERIOD. LET’S ALL FIND OUT TOGETHER. WE DO KNOW ONE THING FOR SURE. THIS GAME IS TIED RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE AT TWO GOALS APIECE. >> FIDELITY COUNTDOWN TO THE START OF THE SEASON. WE ARE FIVE DAYS AWAY FROM THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ON OPENING NIGHT. AMERANT BANK ARENA RAISING YET ANOTHER STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP BANNER. IT’LL BE THE PANTHERS AND THE BLACKHAWKS ON TUESDAY. CATS GO BACK TO BACK AND WE START THE 2025-26 SEASON PENALTY-FILLED GAME TONIGHT. A.J. GREER THE LEADER AT 19 MINUTES AARON EKBLAD ANTHONY CIRELLI 14. JACK FINLEY HAS 12 FOR TAMPA. AND BY THE WAY, A COUPLE OF SHIFTS FOR BRANDON HAGEL AFTER THINGS GOT PHYSICAL WITH HIM AND HE’S NOT RETURNED TO THE GAME. TAMPA BAY NO WORD ON THAT YET. SO HERE WE GO IN THE SECOND LIGHTNING ON THE POWER PLAY. REMEMBER KUNIN TOOK THAT PENALTY RIGHT AT THE BUZZER. THEY GOT HIM FOR SLASHING. AT THE END OF THE SECOND PERIOD. WELL, SPEAKING OF PENALTY FILLED GAMES, LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS ONE. BACK IN APRIL OF 84. THERE YOU GO. THE OLD NORDIQUES AGAINST MONTREAL. RANDY RACKING UP 25. BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE CHRIS NYLUND HAD 32 THAT NIGHT. >> YEAH, THAT’S BECAUSE WE FOUGHT TWICE IN THAT GAME. >> HOW’D YOU DO AGAINST KNUCKLES? >> DID OKAY. THE FIRST ONE. THE SECOND ONE, HE CUT ME OPEN LIKE. NOBODY’S EVER SEEN BEFORE. >> WELL. >> YEAH. >> AND THEN WE BECAME TEAMMATES WITH THE NEW YORK RANGERS. >> THAT’S RIGHT. >> I’M REALLY GOOD FRIENDS AND STILL GOOD FRIENDS. >> OKAY, NICE FOR YOU TONIGHT. YOU’RE UP HERE INSTEAD OF DOWN THERE. SO THAT WORKS OUT. POINT MET AT THE BLUE LINE. KUCHEROV AFTER IT AGAINST MIKKOLA. 2-2 GAME, PANTHERS, ABOUT A COUPLE OF LEADS. LUOSTARINEN SHORTHANDED. SETH JONES ON THE POWER PLAY. THE GOALS GETZLAF SCORES FOR THE LIGHTNING. THEY’VE GOT THEIR FIRST LEAD OF THE NIGHT. >> YOU’RE GOING TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF AN INTERFERENCE ON GUSTAV FORSLING HERE BY THE LIGHTNING, AND THAT ALLOWED A PERFECT LANE FOR GENSEL TO COME DOWN THAT RIGHT SIDE. NOW WATCH TAMPA COME IN, LOOK AT FORSLING RIGHT THERE, AND HE GETS HOOKED UP JUST ENOUGH. AND BY THE TIME KULIKOV CAME OVER TO CHALLENGE GENSEL, HE MAKES A WORLD CLASS SHOT THAT JUST GOES RIGHT INTO THE FAR SIDE. >> THREE POINT GAME FOR JAKE GENSEL. TWO GOALS AND AN ASSIST SO THE LIGHTNING ABLE TO CASH IN ON THE POWER PLAY. TWO POWER PLAY GOALS TONIGHT FOR GENSEL . TARASOV SENDS IT AROUND CROZIER HELD IT IN ON THE BLUE LINE. SO THE PANTHERS NOW DOWN A GOAL HERE ON THE ROAD. LILLEBERG WILL SNAP IT OFF THE END BOARDS. CONOR GEEKIE PRESSURE. HERE’S CHAFFEE SHOOTING BLOCKED IN FRONT BY KULIKOV. >> HAY LIGHTNING. >> PUCK GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN. PANTHERS GO FOR A CHANGE. >> AND IT’S ALL SAME. >> TWO TEAMS SATURDAY NIGHT TO WRAP UP THE PRESEASON. >> ARE. >> KUCHEROV . >> 23 GARY READY? >> HE PICKS UP HIS THIRD POINT OF THE NIGHT AS WELL. PAUL ASSISTS . MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH STARTS OUT OF THE ZONE. CARLILE BROKE HIS STICK AND HE’S BEHIND THE PLAY. HERE’S RODRIGUES ACROSS OFF THE STICK OF GADJOVICH. GADJOVICH AFTER IT. RODRIGUES UP TO THE LINE. MIKKOLA. RODRIGUES DOUBLE TEAM BACK BEHIND THE NET. JONAH GADJOVICH JOINS IN. MOSER GETS IN AND THE GLOVE SAVE BY TARASOV. WELL, WE DON’T SEE ANTON LUNDELL OVER ON THAT PANTHER BENCH. ONE MAN SHORT WITH TWO ASHALI IS EKBLAD IN THE BOX. >> SO YEAH, MAYBE HE WAS AT THAT CROSS-CHECK THAT HE TOOK. >> YEAH. DIRTY PLAY BY MOSER. YEAH. UP HIGH. >> LED TO ANOTHER SKIRMISH. >> BJORKSTRAND MOVES OUT AHEAD. TARASOV TAPPED IT OVER TO FORSLING. A.J. GREER GOT IT OUT TO CENTER FOR BENNING. ROLLS ACROSS REINHART ON THE SHOOT IN. >> AND IT LOOKS LIKE THINGS HAVE SETTLED DOWN. NOT A REPEAT PERFORMANCE THAT WE SAW, ESPECIALLY IN THAT SECOND PERIOD. THAT WAS THE CRITICAL STUFF AND ALL THE PENALTIES. >> KULIKOV WITH THE PUCK DEEP IN THE ZONE. GONCALVES UP NEAR THE LINE. HAS IT CHECKED BY CROZIER GOURDE WITH A SHOT? BY THE WAY, HAGEL, AS I MENTIONED, WE DIDN’T SEE OFFICIALLY. HE WILL NOT RETURN TONIGHT. CHAFFEE ABLE TO WORK THIS PUCK FREE. THEY GIVE THE GONCALVES OUT IN FRONT. IT’S CROZIER. HE MISSES WIDE. >> WOW. HE HAD A CLEAR LOOK RIGHT THERE ABOUT 15 FEET OUT. GOURDE AND MIKKOLA CHATTING IT UP IN BEHIND THE PLAY. >> THEY BOTH GO TO THE BENCH. BRADY ON THE FORECHECK. MARCHAND WITH A HIT ON CROZIER . PANTHERS SENDS IT RIGHT BACK INTO THE TAMPA ZONE . AND NOW A WHISTLE AND OFFSIDE. THE CALL . ENTER THE PRESEASON MULTI-GAME 50/50 JACKPOT. THE WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN SATURDAY NIGHT DURING THE THIRD PERIOD VISIT FLA PANTHERS 50/50 TO ENTER. MARCHAND JAKE GUENTZEL. THEY BATTLED EACH OTHER FOR YEARS. A LOT OF THOSE BATTLES MARCHAND IN BOSTON. GENSEL IN PITTSBURGH AND MARCHAND GIVING HIM AN EARFUL. HERE’S EKBLAD FINALLY BACK IN THE ACTION OUT OF THE PENALTY BOX. MARCHAND FOUGHT THROUGH THE TRAFFIC STRETCH PASS LUOSTARINEN BREAKS IN. NICE SPIN MOVE. TURNS FOREHAND IN FRONT FOR HAGGIE IT GOES WIDE. OH, WHAT A PLAY THERE BY EETU LUOSTARINEN SHOWING SOME OFFENSIVE SKILL AND A BIG WAY. >> YEAH. GONNA SPIN AROUND AND STILL HANG ON TO THAT PUCK. >> HE TOOK THAT PUCK AWAY AND NOW THE PANTHERS GET IT IN THE ZONE. BENNETT. AND NOW KULIKOV IN BEHIND THE NET. A.J. GREER GRABBING A SHIFT HERE WITH BENNETT AND REINHART. >> TAMPA BEEN ABLE TO KEEP THAT TOP LINE. AND THEY’VE DONE ALL THE DAMAGE OFFENSIVELY THAT GENSEL POINT AND KUCHEROV. >> MORE CHATTING AND JOSTLING IN BEHIND THE PLAY AS THE PUCK IS THE PANTHER NET. PETRY STAYED STRONG THERE, AND IT’S MIKKOLA FIRING IN A.J. GREER AFTER IT TRACKS IT DOWN, LEAVES IT FOR BENNETT. CENTERING PASS BLOCKED AND TAKEN AWAY AND THEN A PENALTY ON THE PANTHERS. GADJOVICH NOW MIXING IT UP WITH GONCALVES IN COMES LILLEBERG TWO LIGHTNING PLAYERS AND GADJOVICH ON GONCALVES. >> OH. >> AND JONAH GADJOVICH. >> OH MY GOODNESS, HE HIT HIM WITH A RIGHT. IT’S INCREDIBLE. GONCALVES DID NOT GO DOWN. >> NOW MEANWHILE, THE GOAL WAS SCORED AND HOPEFULLY I’M NOT SURE IF THE WHISTLE BLEW. IT IS A LIGHTNING GOAL. >> AND PLAYERS. >> ARE STILL STRANGE AS YOU CAN GET. >> PLAYERS ARE STILL HUDDLED AROUND INSIDE THE TAMPA BLUE LINE. >> THERE AND GEEKIE SCORED A GREAT GOAL WHILE WE WERE WATCHING THE FIGHTS. WOW . >> WE’LL TAKE A LOOK AT THE GOAL AND GOLDIE SAID A GREAT MOVE BY GEEKIE AND THE SPIN MOVE AND THEN JUST FLIP IT RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE CROSSBAR. BUT WHILE THAT WAS GOING ON, THERE WAS ALREADY ABOUT FIVE. PUNCHES ALREADY THROWN IN THE GADJOVICH FIGHT BACK DOWN THE OTHER END AND THE OFFICIALS DIDN’T BLOW THE WHISTLE. >> AND A BUNCH OF PLAYERS IN THE BOX AGAIN. FINLEY GONCALVES GADJOVICH WENT TO THE DRESSING ROOM. >> I THINK HE’S DONE FOR THE NIGHT. THE ORIGINAL CALL WAS ON GADJOVICH, NO DOUBT WITH A TRIPPING CALL . AS THE OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO TRY. >> AND YEAH, THAT WAS ANOTHER FIGHT FOR GADJOVICH REMEMBER HE GOT FIVE WITH CARLILE BACK IN THE SECOND PERIOD. >> HAY. THREE. HUNDRED. >> GAGE GONCALVES I’M NOT SURE IT HAPPENS OFTEN. I BELIEVE HE’S GOING TO WIND UP WITH A FIGHTING MAJOR AND AN ASSIST ON THE SAME PLAY. JEAN HEBERT EXPLAINING THINGS TO PAUL MAURICE. >> WELL, USUALLY WHEN THERE’S A FIGHT THAT STARTS THE OFFICIAL, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO HAS PUCK POSSESSION, THEY BLOW THE WHISTLE DOWN. >> WELL, SAM BENNETT’S GONE TO THE PANTHERS LOCKER ROOM NOW AS WELL. >> I TOTALLY MISSED THE GOAL BECAUSE I WAS WATCHING THE FIGHT. >> RIGHT AS WELL. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN. I BLAME YOU FOR THAT. >> BUT I DON’T KNOW. IT’S. HE SHOULD HAVE BLOWN THE WHISTLE. >> AND THEY ARE STILL TRYING TO GET IT FIGURED OUT . >> THE GAME GOES ANY LONGER. WE’RE GOING TO BE WISHING KATIE ENGLESON A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. >> WELL, WE COULD DO IT ANYWAY. SHE’S GOT 2:30 HOURS BEFORE SHE’S 23 AGAIN. SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO STOP COUNTING YET. WE CAN. SHE’S YOUNG ENOUGH. AND A.J. GREER IS GOING TO GO TO THE PENALTY BOX. FINLEY IS ALREADY IN THERE FOR TAMPA., AND THERE’S NO PLAYERS ON THE ICE? NO. NOT YET. WE GOT A WHILE TO WAIT. IT IS THREE STRAIGHT GOALS FOR THE LIGHTNING FROM LATE IN THE SECOND INTO THE THIRD TO GO UP 4-2. AND NOW THE PANTHERS COME ON THE ICE. I’M NOT SURE WHY BENNETT WENT TO THE LOCKER ROOM . I HAVEN’T SEEN LUNDELL HERE IN THE THIRD. RODRIGUES BOQVIST SZMUSZKOVICZ ON AGAINST THE POINT LINE. COUPLE OF GOALS. A LITTLE MORE THAN 5 MINUTES APART HERE IN THE THIRD FOR TAMPA TO MAKE IT A 4-2 GAME. KUCHEROV . AND NOW TAKEN BY BOQVIST. WE ARE FIVE ON FIVE CALLS EVENED OUT. BOQVIST AFTER IT. TRYING TO GET THIS LOOSE. PUCK CHOPS IT ON GOAL AND HALVERSON MAKES THE SAVE. GOOD EFFORT BY >> NOW BACK IN TAMPA IT’S A 4-2 LEAD. NOW FOR THE LIGHTNING A COUPLE OF GOALS HERE IN THE THIRD PERIOD. OUR PLAYER PROFILE SPONSORED BY BAPTIST HEALTH. RANDY WE ADD ANOTHER ONE TO THE LIST. NIKO MIKKOLA JOINS THOSE PANTHERS WHO ARE SIGNED THROUGH AT LEAST THE END OF THE DECADE. >> WELL, AND I’VE SAID IT A FEW TIMES, WHAT THE PANTHERS HAVE BUILT AND WHAT THESE PLAYERS HAVE BUILT WITH COACHING STAFF, MANAGEMENT AND THE SUPPORT OF THE OWNERSHIP. AND THEY WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS. AND THEY FEEL THAT THEY’VE GOT A MANY MORE YEARS AT THE TOP OF THE NHL AND RUNS TO THE STANLEY CUP. AND NO SURPRISE, NIKO MIKKOLA BOY, HE REALLY MADE HUGE STRIDES AND HE’S BECOME A DOMINATING DEFENSEMAN IN THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE, AND HE’S REWARDED WITH THAT EIGHT YEAR DEAL. CONGRATULATIONS TO HIM. >> KULIKOV OFF THE FACE FACE-OFF CRANKS ONE UP AND BLOCKER SAVED BY HALVERSON. NOW PETRY BLOCKED BY DENZEL KUNIN GETS AFTER IT. JONAH GADJOVICH BENNETT LUNDELL NOT ON THE PANTHERS BENCH FOR LIGHTNING PLAYERS INCLUDING CERNAK WHO LEFT THE GAME. LILLEBERG HAGEL AS WELL. ON THE BENCHES. AND WE’LL GET A WHISTLE HERE. AND YES, SIR, IT’S A PENALTY. I KNOW YOU’RE SURPRISED TOM BOQUIST, FLORIDA, 70 MINUTES, PENALTY, INTERFERENCE CALLED BOQUIST ON THE BACKCHECK AND PREVENTING HIS PLAYER TO TRY AND GET IN POSITION THERE. >> YOU SEE, TAKES OUT BRAYDEN POINT. THE PUCK WAS A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR AWAY FROM THOSE TWO PLAYERS. AND THE . THE OFFICIAL RIGHT THERE MAKES THE CALL. >> TAMPA IS TWO FOR EIGHT ON THE POWER PLAY IN THE GAME. HE’LL GET ANOTHER CHANCE HERE. TARASOFF HOLDS IT OFF THE FACE-OFF. STRANGE GAME TONIGHT FOR TARASOFF BECAUSE HE FACED 19 SHOTS IN THE FIRST PERIOD. SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITIES, A NUMBER OF DAZZLING SAVES AND ONLY TEN SHOTS SINCE THEN. KUCHEROV OFF THE DRAW MISSES THE NET. RADDYSH COULDN’T HOLD IT IN. FORSLING GOT THE CLEAR. >> AT 7:27. >> PUCK OUT TO CENTER AGAIN. LUOSTARINEN IS ON WITH MARCHAND ON THE PENALTY KILL. THAT TWO KNOCKS IT DOWN. HAD A SHORTHANDED GOAL IN THE FIRST, THEN HAD A SHORTHANDED BREAKAWAY AFTER THAT. KUCHEROV IN THE SLOT. THE FEED AGAIN BACK IN FRONT, A SLIDING AARON EKBLAD DENIED THE PASS TO GUENTZEL. KUCHEROV. NOW AGAIN GENSEL IN THE SLOT, FEEDS IT OFF TO BJORKSTRAND . POINT FOR FOR RADISH . NOW IT’S KUCHEROV RADISH SLAP SHOT WIDE. KUCHEROV AT THE CIRCLE OUT IN FRONT. GETS IT BACK CROSS-ICE FEED IT BROKE. LUOSTARINEN STICKS UP OUT KUCHEROV FIRES AND THAT PUCK IS UP AND OUT OF PLAY . AND ANOTHER BROKEN STICK. GENSEL. SO TWO BROKEN STICKS ON THAT PLAY. ONE ASIDE. >> YEAH, I WAS WATCHING THE TARASOFF HERE. LOOK HOW HE GOES SIDE TO SIDE AND THE LIGHTNING AND THEN KUCHEROV TAKES THAT SHOT AND TARASOFF SOMEHOW WAS ABLE TO FIGHT THAT OFF, AND THE PUCK GOES OUT OF PLAY AND PANTHERS CAN GET SOME FRESH PLAYERS ON THE ICE. YEAH, AGAIN, HE’S BEEN HE’S BEEN VERY IMPRESSIVE THE SIZE OF THAT GOALTENDER. HARRISON AND THE WAY HE TRACKS THAT PUCK DOWN, ESPECIALLY WITH THE TRAFFIC IN FRONT. >> AND SUCH A STRANGE GAME, I WOULD IMAGINE FOR FOR THE GOALTENDERS. WHAT A LONG TIME IN THE SECOND. BARELY SEEING THE PUCK OR ANY ACTION ON HIS END OF THE ICE. KUNIN GETS THAT PUCK DOWN THE ICE, TOOK A HIT FROM CIRELLI. >> TOUCH. >> BOQVIST PENALTY IS WINDING DOWN. RODRIGUES ON THE LOOSE PUCK IN THE OFFENSIVE END. MOSER TAKES AWAY BOQVIST IS BACK. TAMPA NOW TWO FOR NINE ON THE POWER PLAY IN THE GAME. PETRY UP AHEAD. HERE COMES SZMUSZKOVICZ. A LITTLE BIT OF ROOM BREAKS OVER THE BLUE LINE, DROPS FOR THE SHOT WAS BLOCKED. BRADY RETRIEVES. PETRY MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH VERHAEGHE PICKS IT UP. PASS REINHART SHOT OFF THE GOALPOST. GREAT WORK THERE AND A GOOD SETUP. REINHART HIT THE BAR. AND PRETTY SLICK. REINHART KEEPS IT IN THE ZONE. LOOK OUT! KULIKOV STICK WENT FLYING. HE CAN’T PICK IT UP. HE’S GOT TO JUST GET BACK DEFENSIVELY. SAM REINHART ON THE LOOSE PUCK. WE’VE SEEN REINHART SHIFTING OVER TO CENTER FOR THIS SHIFT. ANYWAY. PANTHERS SHORTHANDED THERE. FORSLING SHOOTS. BLOCKER SAVED FORSLING ON HIS OWN REBOUND. NOW YANNI GOURDE. TIPPED ALL THE WAY DOWN THE ICE. HERE COMES BOQVIST HAS TO CIRCLE BACK. EKBLAD AND A BATTLE WITH CHAFFEY. AND THE PANTHERS WORK IT FREE. BOQVIST OUT TO CENTER. LIGHTNING ARE BACK DEFENSIVELY. PANTHERS GET IT DEEP IN THAT CLOCK. CONTINUES TO ROLL AT EIGHT AND A HALF TO GO IN THE THIRD. FULL POST GAME SHOW. COMING UP IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE GAME . YOU MISSED SOME OF THE FISTICUFFS EARLY. OR IF YOU SAW THEM. EITHER WAY, YOU’LL SEE HIM AGAIN. AT LEAST SOME OF IT. AND HERE WE GO. MIKKOLA AND FINLEY KUNIN GETS IN THERE AND ONE MORE TIME AT LEAST, AND IN BEHIND THE PLAY, SZMUSZKOVICZ TIED UP WITH A MAN. MACKIE SAMOSKEVICH AND JAMES CATS HUGHES DOWN ON THE ICE. THERE ON THE RIGHT SIDE. FINLEY HAS JUST BEEN TRYING TO GET IT. A PANTHER DEFENSEMAN ALL NIGHT LONG, AND THIS WILL PROBABLY DO IT FOR HIM FOR THE EVENING. LUKE KUNIN LOOKING LIKE A PANTHER ALREADY. HASN’T EVEN PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME. >> YEAH, HE WAS QUICK TO GET INTO THAT SCRUM. MIKKOLA WAS ALL TIED UP THERE WITH FINLEY FINLEY AND. >> YEAH, THEY’RE STILL LOOK AT OLD. HUGE IN THE STANLEY CUP RUNS THE LAST FEW YEARS. NEARLY HAD A GOAL HERE. >> YEAH, VERHAEGHE PUT IT RIGHT OVER TO REINHART. AND HE HAD BEATEN HALVERSON, BUT HE JUST PUT IT OFF THE CROSSBAR. THERE WAS PLENTY OF ROOM THERE BEFORE HALVERSON WAS ABLE TO GET OVER. AND THEN HERE’S THE LATEST ROUGH STUFF AS FINLEY AND NIKO MIKKOLA . AND KUNIN COMES KUNIN COMES IN AND THEN EVERYBODY GRABS A. A DANCE PARTNER. >> PAUL MAURICE PLEADING HIS CASE ABOUT SOMETHING TO JOHN HEBERT. THEY WILL SEE EACH OTHER FOUR TIMES IN THE REGULAR SEASON. THEY WILL BE INTENSE AGAIN. ONE MORE IN THE PRESEASON SATURDAY NIGHT AT AMERANT BANK ARENA. WE’LL HAVE THAT GAME FOR YOU AND. THESE TWO TEAMS AGAIN. PLAYOFFS EVERY YEAR. PANTHERS RIDING A SIX SEASON STREAK GOING TO THE POSTSEASON AND WHOEVER GETS OUT OF FLORIDA HAS A GREAT CHANCE TO WIN THE WHOLE THING. AND GOES TO THE STANLEY CUP FINAL. AT LEAST THE FOUR TIMES THEY PLAYED . IT’S BEEN PANTHERS IN FIVE EACH OF THE LAST TWO YEARS. PANTHERS GET A POWER PLAY. WITH LESS THAN 8 MINUTES TO GO, JONES EKBLAD MARCHAND REINHART AND LUOSTARINEN. THEY SAID SAM BENNETT LEFT THE BENCH. HE WENT TO THE DRESSING ROOM EARLIER IN THE PERIOD. THAT’S WHY HE’S NOT OUT THERE. CHAFEE HAD SOME TROUBLE. RIGHT IN FRONT, PICKED UP BY JONES. LUOSTARINEN NOW. LOOK AT THAT. TWO. CONFIDENCE WITH THAT PUCK. NOW CHAFEE FINDS IT. >> THE PANTHERS OFF THE OPPORTUNITY HERE TO GET WITHIN ONE. AND STILL ON THIS POWER PLAY. >> EVAN RODRIGUES WITH THE INJURY TO SASHA BARKOV OUT 7-9 MONTHS WITH THE KNEE. GOING AT CENTER HERE TONIGHT. AND PRESUMABLY WHEN THE SEASON STARTS NEXT WEEK HE’S PLAYED THERE BEFORE IN HIS CAREER AND HE’S PLAYED EVERYWHERE SINCE BECOMING A PANTHER. EVERY LINE PRETTY MUCH EVERY POSITION. STARTED THE NIGHT WITH BOQVIST AND SALMON ON HIS WINGS. OF COURSE, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MIXED UP ALL NIGHT LONG WITH ALL THE PENALTIES AND THEN A FEW PLAYERS LEAVING THE GAME. HERE’S VERHAEGHE SNAPS IT AND A GLOVE SAVE. HALVERSON . WELL, WE TAKE A LOOK AT IT. RANDY. HOPEFULLY THE PANTHERS GET MATTHEW TKACHUK BACK FOR AT LEAST TWO, MAYBE THREE OF THOSE GAMES. >> YEAH, THOSE ARE THE FOUR DATES THAT THESE TWO TEAMS WILL MEET IN REGULAR SEASON. YEAH, THERE’S A LOT OF FRUSTRATION ON THE TAMPA SIDE. OVER THE LOT FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PLAYOFFS. AND NOW AT THE HANDS OF THE FLORIDA PANTHERS. >> THEY’RE NOT THE ONLY ONES IN THE EASTERN CONFERENCE, ARE THEY? >> NO THEY’RE NOT. BUT. >> BOSTON. >> YOU KNOW, THE WAY THE THE PANTHERS WON THAT SERIES LAST YEAR. NOT ONLY WITH THE OFFENSE BUT THE PHYSICALITY. AND IT DIDN’T SEND THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING TO THEIR OFF SEASON IN A VERY GOOD MOOD. >> TORONTO COULD SAY THE SAME. CAROLINA. MIKKOLA IS OUT OF THE BOX. 6-13 TO GO. WE’LL SEE WHAT SATURDAY NIGHT BRINGS BETWEEN THESE TWO TEAMS. THERE’S REINHART AND MARCHAND, EACH WITH TWO STANLEY CUPS DURING THEIR CAREER. BRAD MARCHAND 1,100 GAMES PLAYED. SIGNED FOR 6 YEARS. BOY, DID HE COME UP BIG IN THE STANLEY CUP FINAL. A HALF DOZEN GOALS AGAINST EDMONTON . >> AND THAT LINE JUST. IT WAS JUST DOMINANT . LUNDELL LUOSTARINEN, MARCHAND. AND OBVIOUSLY THE SPECIAL TEAMS. WHEN MARCHAND ON THE POWER PLAY AND THE PENALTY KILLING AS WELL. >> AND THAT’S REALLY BEEN THE STORY THE LAST THREE, YOU KNOW, RUNS FOR THE PANTHERS AS MOSER AND LUOSTARINEN TIED 0-2 UNHAPPY. THERE GETTING A COUPLE OF POPS IN. YOU DON’T SEE THAT VERY OFTEN OUT OF LUOSTARINEN. >> YEAH. MOSER HE WAS NOT VERY HAPPY WHEN HE PINCHED DOWN THE BOARDS AND TOOK A VERY SOLID BUT CLEAN HIT BY LUOSTARINEN. AND THEN THE HE HUNG ON TO WELL, ON PRESEASON GAMES. YOU’LL SEE WE CONTINUE ON HERE. IT’S 5:49 TO GO TAMPA UP 2. HERE’S THE LATEST. >> YEAH. AND LUOSTARINEN FINISHING HIS CHECK. MOSER PINCHES DOWN THE BOARDS AND THEN MOSER WITH A BEAR HUG AND FALLS DOWN. LUOSTARINEN LUOSTARINEN GETS UP. HE’S HAD ENOUGH OF THAT RAZZLE AROUND. THE OFFICIALS COME IN AND WE ADD TO THE PENALTY MINUTES. >> GADJOVICH IS BACK FROM THE DRESSING ROOM, SO HE’S IN THE PENALTY BOX. MOSER WENT IN AS WELL. FINLEY STILL IN THERE FROM BEFORE. >> NOW THE PANTHERS GET PLAYERS ON THE ICE. AS I MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES, VERY DIFFICULT FOR BOTH COACHES AND ASSISTANT COACHES TO GET PLAYERS ON THE ICE WHEN THERE’S SO MANY PENALTIES. THAT DEFENSE PAIRS CHALLENGE. >> EVERYBODY’S PLAYING WITH EVERYBODY TONIGHT. >> THAT’S FOR SURE. >> WELL, IT GOES FOR ON FOUR NOW. LUOSTARINEN AND MOSER WITH THE PENALTIES. THEY’VE STOPPED EVEN ANNOUNCING ALL THE PENALTIES. JUST PUTTING HIM UP ON THE BOARD . HERE’S MIKKOLA TO THE BLUE LINE. KUNIN WITH BOQVIST THE FORWARDS FOR THE PANTHERS. KUCHEROV WITH THE PUCK OUT AT CENTER POINT. RADDYSH HAS IT. JANSSON. HE’S COME UP BIG. A COUPLE OF GOALS AND AN ASSIST TONIGHT. JAKE. >> THAT’S BEEN THE THAT’S BEEN THE OFFENSIVE PUSH FROM THE FROM THE LIGHTNING HAS BEEN THAT LINE POINT KUCHEROV AND DENZEL AND I’M SURE THEY’LL BE UNITED ON SATURDAY NIGHT. TO FINISH OFF THE PRESEASON. >> AND IT SURE LOOKS LIKE THAT WILL BE AN INTACT LINE UP TOP FOR TAMPA. >> THE BIG QUESTION IS, YOU KNOW, HEDMAN AND VASILEVSKIY, WILL THEY GET INTO THE LAST PRESEASON GAME FOR TAMPA AS WELL? >> AND TONIGHT, HAGEL AND CHERNYAK LEFT THE GAME. HERE’S CIRELLI AND HE FIRES IT HOME . >> TAMPA USES THAT STRETCH PLAY. THEY MOVE THAT PUCK UP THE ICE. PANTHERS UNFORTUNATELY, WERE CAUGHT WITH JUST ONE DEFENDER BACK AND CIRELLI HERE’S RADDYSH AND IT JUST FLIPPED INTO THE MIDDLE AND CIRELLI GOT IN BEHIND IT. THE PANTHERS, THERE ALL BY HIMSELF . RIGHT OFF THE POST ON THE GLOVE SIDE. >> A THREE GOAL THIRD PERIOD FOR THE LIGHTNING. CARLILE AND RADDYSH THE DEFENSEMAN. GET THE ASSISTS. IT’S A FOUR ON FOUR GOAL. AND NOW 5-2 AS WE COME DOWN THE STRETCH. >> HAY LIGHTNING GOAL CARL GRUNDSTROM JACK QUINN FIVE. >> HERE’S DMITRI KULIKOV OVER TO RODRIGUES . PETRY UP THE MIDDLE. FINDS KULIKOV BREAKING IN. STOLEN AWAY BY JAMES. >> CARLILE. AND . >> DENZEL RACES DOWN THE WING. LITTLE FLIP FOR JAMES LOOKS IN FRONT AND PETRY PLAYS IT THERE. STOLEN AWAY BY JAMES CENTERS. GEEKIE COULDN’T TEE IT UP. RODRIGUES NOW FOR THE PANTHERS OUT TO CENTER. HE GETS HIT BY RADDYSH AND GOES DOWN. LUOSTARINEN ON THE SHOOT IN. JESPER BOQVIST AND AFTER THE LOOSE PUCK. GEEKIE KNOCKED IT FREE. SO TAMPA WILL TAKE THE FIRST TWO OF THE THREE GAMES THIS WEEK. OF COURSE, ON TUESDAY, NOT MANY REGULARS. THERE WERE SOME FOR THE LIGHTNING , NONE FOR THE PANTHERS. FORSLING ON THE MOVE . FORSLING SHOT TIPPED BY MOSER AND THAT’S OUT OF PLAY WITH 3:05 TO GO. >> NOT QUITE SURE WHY. >> GUSTAV FORSLING HERE. >> WE GO. HAS BEEN A TARGET. >> EKBLAD AND CROZIER AND NOW KUNIN AND GOURDE. AND KUNIN AND GORDON GOING TO DROP HIM. THEY’RE GOING AT IT. LUKE KUNIN NEW PANTHER WILL NEVER SHY AWAY FROM THIS. ANOTHER FIGHT BREAKS OUT AT CENTER ICE AS KUNIN TAKES DOWN GORDON THERE. BACK UP AND STILL GOING AT IT . MEANWHILE, ALONG THE BOARDS, EVERYBODY’S GOT A PARTNER. KUNIN IS STILL THROWING HIM. WOW. WE THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE DONE, BUT IT’S NOT. IT’S AARON EKBLAD OUT AT CENTER ICE IN THAT OTHER TUSSLE WITH CHAFING. >> AS I WAS MENTIONING RIGHT BEFORE THAT HAPPENED, GUSTAV FORSLING STEPPED OVER THE BLUE LINE, TOOK A SHOT THAT WAS PARTIALLY BLOCKED, SAILS INTO THE THE THE NETTING. THE WHISTLE BLOWS, HE TURNS BACK, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LIGHTNING AGAIN GO AFTER FORSLING. AND THEN THAT’S WHEN EVERYBODY STARTS COMING BACK IN AGAIN . AND THERE YOU SEE. EKBLAD HIS FIRST ON THE SCENE. >> WHERE’S GARRETT RANK WHEN YOU NEED HIM? REMEMBER A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN OTTAWA? EVERYBODY ON THE ICE GETS TEN. THEY’RE ALL DONE. NOW. SOMEONE’S GOING TO HAVE TO PLAY THE LAST 3 MINUTES. PLUS. >> YEAH, I’M SURE THERE’S SOME MISCONDUCTS AND WHAT HAVE YOU THAT ARE GOING TO BE ASSESSED HERE. IT’S GOING TO BE INTERESTING TO HEAR. PAUL MAURICE AND JOHN COOPER’S COMMENTS AFTER THIS GAME. >> WE’LL HEAR FROM THE PANTHERS COACH IN THE POST GAME SHOW COMING UP. JOHN HEBERT OVER THERE EXPLAINING IT TO PAUL MAURICE. YOU KNOW WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT ALL OF THIS, RANDY? I DON’T THINK BRAD MARCHAND HAS BEEN CALLED FOR ONE PENALTY. I GOTTA LOOK, I MEAN, HE HASN’T BEEN, YOU KNOW, THAT’S A VETERAN. HE’S STAYING OUT OF ALL OF IT. HE HAS NOT BEEN CALLED FOR A PENALTY TONIGHT. >> AND SAM BENNETT, WHO’S USUALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A LOT OF THIS BEFORE HE LEFT THE GAME. >> YEAH. HE GOT HE GOT A TEN. >> YEAH. HE GOT A TEN MINUTE MISCONDUCT. >> YEAH. RIGHT. OKAY. SEE A LOT OF THE TIMES HERE TONIGHT, THE OFFICIALS ARE NOT MAKING THE USUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. SO. OH AND LOOK WHO’S BACK SERVING THE PENALTY FOR SOMEBODY ELSE. I MEAN, THIS IS THIS SHOULD COUNT AS SERVICE HOURS FOR CARTER VERHAEGHE. >> OR HE COULD BE CHARGED RENT. >> WILD GAME. IT’S 5-2 LIGHTNING. TAMPA BAY GETS A POWER PLAY OUT OF THAT LAST SCRUM. I BELIEVE THIS IS THEIR TENTH. CIRELLI. GONCALVES STOLEN AWAY BY PETRY. STOLEN BACK BY FINLEY. AND A.J. GREER OUT THERE FOR THE PUCK. AND THAT PUCK COMES DOWN THE ICE. >> FIVE BLAYLOCK FLORIDA LUKE KUNIN 5-5. CIRELLI GETS THAT AROUND THE BOARDS. >> MOSER TO CIRELLI IN BACK AND MOSER SHOT HIGH OFF THE GLASS. IT STAYS IN PLAY. DMITRI KULIKOV POPS IT OUT TO CENTER. TARASOV SLOWED THAT PUCK DOWN. GREER GOT TO IT OFF THE GLOVE OF RADDYSH AND OUT TO CENTER. HERE’S BJORKSTRAND GIVING BACK THREE GOAL THIRD PERIOD TAMPA BAY AND FOUR IN A ROW. AFTER THE PANTHERS LED 2-1 THAT ON THE SETH JONES GOAL VERY EARLY IN THE SECOND PERIOD. TAMPA GOT IT EVEN BEFORE THE PERIOD ENDED. HERE’S PUCK RIGHT OUT IN FRONT OF BJORKSTRAND SPINS IT BACK UP HIGH FOR CARLILE BJORKSTRAND THE HIT ON JONES FORMER TEAMMATES COLUMBUS. YEARS AGO. AND CARTER VERHAEGHE IS OUT OF THE PENALTY BOX. PANTHERS ABLE TO GET OUT OF THAT ONE. >> ABOUT THE SEVENTH TIME TONIGHT. >> AND NOW THE FINAL MINUTE. SPONSORED BY ANNA JARED LEVINE. BATTLE GOING ON IN BEHIND THE NET. CIRELLI IS ALL OVER KULIKOV. THEY BATTLE IN FRONT OF THE NET . PANTHERS CLEAR THE ZONE. HALF A MINUTE TO GO. GOT THE FULL POST GAME SHOW COMING UP. MAKE SURE YOU STAY WITH US AND WE’RE BACK SATURDAY NIGHT, 6:30, THREE GAME 7:00 FACE-OFF. SAME TWO AT AMERANT BANK ARENA. TO WRAP UP THE PRESEASON. AND WE’LL SEE IF THINGS END AMICABLY IN 10 SECONDS. YOU WOULD GUESS THAT THEY WOULD. AFTER A HARD CHARGING NIGHT. PENALTIES GALORE AND THAT WILL DO. >> IT. >> 5-2 TAMPA THE FINAL. OVER 180 PENALTY MINUTES IN THIS PRESEASON GAME. >> AND BOTH THESE TWO TEAMS WILL MEET AGAIN ON SATURDAY. >> FINAL SCORE TAMPA BAY FIVE, THE PANTHERS TWO. HALVERSON GETS THE WIN COMING UP NEXT. IT’S PANTHERS POST GAME PRESENTED BY CELSIUS. FULL RECAP OF THIS ONE. WE’LL

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