SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jack Finley scored his first NHL goal early in the third period to break a tie and the Tampa Bay Lightning held on to beat the Florida Panthers 3-1 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Emil Lilleberg and Zemgus Girgensons also scored for the Lightning. They improved to 8-2-0 in their last 10 games and 5-2-2 on the road.<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 23 shots for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n
Brad Marchand scored his team-leading 12th goal of the season for Florida, a power-play tally midway through the second period that tied it at 1.<\/p>\n
But Finley picked up a loose puck near the blue line and skated in alone on goalie Sergei Bobrovsky for what became the go-ahead goal 4:09 into the third. Girgensons sealed it with an empty-netter with 50.3 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
Bobrovsky made 17 saves for Florida, which saw its two-game winning streak snapped.<\/p>\n
It was the first game between the teams since Oct. 4, a preseason contest that saw more than 300 penalty minutes and both rosters getting depleted because so many players were sent to the locker room early because of those infractions.<\/p>\n
And this game was chippy at times \u2014 as Lightning-Panthers games tend to be \u2014 but it was nothing like the penalty-fest from the preseason. There were only 14 penalties, 13 of them 2-minute minors and the other a 4-minute double minor against the Lightning in the third. There were some scuffles, but nothing that rose to the level of a fighting penalty or a major.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Lightning: Host Vancouver on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Panthers: Host Vancouver on Monday night.<\/p>\n
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