Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers, 2025-12-27

NHL · Dec 27, 2025

Tampa Bay Lightning21-13-3

4–2

Final

Florida Panthers20-15-2

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The Lightning beat the Panthers 4–2 at Amerant Bank Arena. J. Guentzel took first star with 1 goal.

Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Lightning	2	1	1	4	25
Panthers	1	1	0	2	26

★ Three Stars

1J. GuentzelTBL · 1G 0A

2E. LuostarinenFLA · 1G 0A

3N. KucherovTBL · 2G 0A

Scoring Summary

1st Period

05:37

Eetu Luostarinen (Mackie Samoskevich, Evan Rodrigues)

0-1

13:05

Jake Guentzel (Anthony Cirelli, Max Crozier)SH

1-1

19:52

Pontus Holmberg (Yanni Gourde, Declan Carlile)

2-1

2nd Period

02:31

Nikita Kucherov (Brayden Point, Gage Goncalves)

3-1

07:05

Brad Marchand (Sam Bennett, Sam Reinhart)PP

3-2

3rd Period

19:04

Nikita Kucherov (Anthony Cirelli)EN

4-2

Boxscore

Lightning4

Skater	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	HIT	BLK	TOI
Nikita KucherovR	2	0	2	+2	0	3	2	0	18:29
Anthony CirelliC	0	2	2	+1	2	1	3	1	17:10
Jake GuentzelC	1	0	1	+1	2	3	2	3	27:14
Pontus HolmbergR	1	0	1	+1	0	1	1	2	13:20
Gage GoncalvesC	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	10:52
Yanni GourdeC	0	1	1	+1	6	1	1	1	15:04
Brayden PointC	0	1	1	+1	0	2	0	0	17:16
Max CrozierD	0	1	1	+2	6	1	4	3	20:25
Declan CarlileD	0	1	1	+1	0	0	3	0	18:32
Zemgus GirgensonsC	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	16:06
Nick PaulL	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	2	14:22
Scott SabourinR	0	0	0	0	26	0	1	0	6:32
Charle-Edouard D'AstousD	0	0	0	+1	8	1	1	0	16:42
J.J. MoserD	0	0	0	+1	10	1	2	2	22:28
Darren RaddyshD	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	2	25:07
Oliver BjorkstrandR	0	0	0	0	6	0	2	0	12:13
Steven SantiniD	0	0	0	+1	2	0	1	1	7:58
Curtis DouglasC	0	0	0	0	17	0	0	0	3:45

Goalie	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
Andrei VasilevskiyStart	26	24	2	.923	59:46
Jonas Johansson	0	0	0	-	0:00

Panthers2

Skater	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	HIT	BLK	TOI
Eetu LuostarinenC	1	0	1	+1	0	5	6	0	20:14
Brad MarchandL	1	0	1	-4	2	3	2	0	21:55
Evan RodriguesC	0	1	1	+1	2	3	0	1	16:56
Sam BennettC	0	1	1	-4	10	2	3	0	19:19
Sam ReinhartC	0	1	1	-2	0	1	0	1	24:43
Mackie SamoskevichR	0	1	1	0	2	2	1	0	18:14
A.J. GreerL	0	0	0	0	6	0	3	1	10:12
Jesper BoqvistC	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	7:51
Anton LundellC	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	20:13
Carter VerhaegheC	0	0	0	-3	4	1	1	0	14:37
Uvis BalinskisD	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	9:51
Aaron EkbladD	0	0	0	+1	4	0	2	1	20:36
Gustav ForslingD	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	19:00
Seth JonesD	0	0	0	-3	2	2	0	3	25:53
Niko MikkolaD	0	0	0	-1	0	0	4	0	16:47
Jeff PetryD	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	14:28
Luke KuninC	0	0	0	0	15	1	1	0	4:39
Jack StudnickaC	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3:42

Goalie	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
Sergei BobrovskyStart	24	21	3	.875	58:50
Daniil Tarasov	0	0	0	-	0:00