After missing the last two months of the regular season with a lower-body injury, Tkachuk opened the 2025 postseason with a ...

Tampa Bay looked much more like its own Stanley Cup Championship-caliber form in Game 3 with a 5-1 victory over the Panthers in Sunrise.

With a 6-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Panthers advance to the second round of the playoffs for the fourth straight season, where they will await the winner of the Toronto Maple Leafs vs.

But this time there's a twist. In 2021 and 2022, the Lightning were the defending Stanley Cup champion; this time the Panthers are. Each time the two teams have faced each other, the winner of the ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning have been one of the most successful NHL franchises over the last decade with two Stanley Cup championships in four Final appearances. Add on two other runs cut short in ...

Injuries limited his ability to make a greater impact. Now, the team faces a tough call concerning its top pending free agent ...

TAMPA — The Florida Panthers may have defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 on April 24 to take a 2-0 series lead, but it was not without a scare. Florida captain Aleksander Barkov left the game with ...

The Florida Panthers will face the Toronto Maple Leafs in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the second time in ...

The Panthers were all over the Maple Leafs from the get-go, swarming the home side in the opening 20 minutes. The defending ...

TAMPA — The Florida Panthers may have defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 on April 24 ... More: Florida Panthers are set to defend their first Stanley Cup championship Need a break?

Here are 10 observations on a surprisingly one-sided first-round Stanley Cup playoff series. 1. This is almost certainly the ...

The Florida Panthers lost 5-2 to the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 3 of their Stanley Cup playoff series, giving the Lightning a 2-1 series lead. Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 33 saves ...