Carter Verhaeghe nets game-winner in OT as Panthers edge Lightning, take 2-0 series lead
Published in Hockey
SUNRISE, Fla. — Carter Verhaeghe scored 2:09 into overtime and the Florida Panthers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 3-2, on Tuesday at Amerant Bank Arena to go up 2-0 in their Stanley Cup Playoffs opening-round series.
Sam Bennett and Vladimir Tarasenko scored in the first period for Florida, which got 21 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky.
Brayden Point and Steven Stamkos scored for Tampa in the first 5:46 minutes of the second period to tie the game at 2-2 and neither team found the back of the net for the ensuing 34:14 to send the game to overtime with Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky and Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy exchanging great save after great save for the second half of regulation.
The series now shifts to Tampa, with Games 3 and 4 being played at Amalie Arena on Thursday (7 p.m.) and Saturday (5 p.m.).
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