Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Florida PanthersApr 26, 2025

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
TBL	1	1	3	5		TBL	5	11	6	22
FLA	1	0	0	1		FLA	12	13	9	34

: TBL 50FLA 71
: TBL 3.11FLA 3.05
PP goals: TBL 0FLA 0
Hits: TBL 34FLA 43
Blocks: TBL 23FLA 17
PIM: TBL 20FLA 25
: TBL 57%FLA 43%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Tampa Bay Lightning rout Florida Panthers 5–1

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Florida Panthers 5–1 at FLA. Jake Guentzel (TBL) led the scoring with 1G 2A. New look for FLA: Bennett–Rodrigues–Tkachuk skated 6:50 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (76.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Jake Guentzel had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 5 shots in 23:46.Guentzel
Points
Nikita Kucherov had 3 assists (3 points) on 1 shot in 21:34.Kucherov
Points
Gage Goncalves had 2 assists (2 points) in 18:31.Goncalves
Points
Ryan McDonagh had 2 assists (2 points) in 17:04.McDonagh
New line
New look for FLA: Bennett–Rodrigues–Tkachuk skated 6:50 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (76.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Bennett Rodrigues Tkachuk
Usage
Brayden Point (TBL) played 17:45, −5:05 down on his 22:50 season average over 4 games.Point
Luck
FLA scored 1 goal on 3.05 expected goals (71 attempts), well short of its chances.
Goalie
Andrei Vasilevskiy (TBL) faced 34 shots and stopped 33 (.971), +9 against a season average of 25.0; the win.Vasilevskiy

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← TBL attacks left (bottom on phones)FLA attacks right (top on phones) →

FLA
TBL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 121 of 121 attempts · FLA 71 · TBL 50

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

FLA
TBL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

FLA pressure
TBL pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: TBL 28% of the game, FLA 39%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

FLA

TBL

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	TBL	FLA
	36	60
	1.62	2.39
	1.56	2.32
	8	20
	2	5
	18	26
	+0.019	−0.019
	28%	39%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Tampa Bay Lightning

L1Kucherov – Guentzel – Point
7:4852% CF
L2Paul – Cirelli – Goncalves
2:580% CF
L3Glendening – Girgensons – Chaffee
1:150% CF
D1McDonagh – Cernak
9:0829% CF
D2Hedman – Moser
6:5018% CF
D3Perbix – Lilleberg
6:1760% CF

PP1Hedman – Kucherov – Guentzel – Point – Cirelli
5:4686% CF
PP2Paul – Raddysh – Chaffee – Goncalves – Geekie
3:07100% CF
PK1FGlendening – Girgensons
4:25
PK2FGuentzel – Paul
1:42
PK1DMcDonagh – Cernak
5:12
PK2DHedman – Moser
2:08

Current TBL line combinations →

Florida Panthers

L1Verhaeghe – Barkov – Reinhart
8:2764% CF
L2Bennett – Rodrigues – Tkachuk
6:5076% CF
L3Marchand – Luostarinen – Lundell
6:1557% CF
L4Boqvist – Sturm – Samoskevich
3:4033% CF
D1Ekblad – Forsling
11:1551% CF
D2Jones – Mikkola
10:3575% CF
D3Kulikov – Schmidt
8:1069% CF

PP1Verhaeghe – Barkov – Jones – Reinhart – Tkachuk
5:24100% CF
PP2Marchand – Schmidt – Verhaeghe – Bennett – Rodrigues
1:09100% CF
PK1FLuostarinen – Sturm
2:54
PK2FBarkov – Reinhart
2:01
PK1DEkblad – Forsling
5:44
PK2DJones – Mikkola
2:14

Current FLA line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Tampa Bay Lightning

TBL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jake Guentzel C	L1	1	2	3	+4	5	0.54	3	0	0	23:46	—	—	53	54
Nikita Kucherov R	L1	0	3	3	+3	1	0.08	1	0	2	21:34	—	—	44	38
Brayden Point C	L1	1	0	1	+1	4	0.46	0	0	0	17:45	—	—	52	53
Nick Paul L	L2	1	0	1	0	3	0.43	4	0	2	19:59	—	—	42	43
Anthony Cirelli C	L2	1	0	1	0	1	0.96	7	3	14	19:24	—	—	15	10
Gage Goncalves C	L2	0	2	2	+1	0	0.01	4	1	0	18:31	—	—	40	40
Mitchell Chaffee R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.09	3	1	0	14:09	—	—	20	18
Zemgus Girgensons C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	0	13:22	—	—	38	34
Luke Glendening C	L3	1	0	1	+1	1	0.13	0	2	0	10:47	—	—	25	79
Erik Cernak D	D1	0	0	0	+3	2	0.01	5	1	0	17:07	—	—	32	38
Ryan McDonagh D	D1	0	2	2	+3	0	0.00	0	3	0	17:04	—	—	43	52
Victor Hedman D	D2	0	0	0	+1	3	0.23	1	1	0	22:20	—	—	31	24
J.J. Moser D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	5	0	15:48	—	—	26	52
Nick Perbix D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	13:21	—	—	50	39
Emil Lilleberg D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	11:38	—	—	44	79
Darren Raddysh D	—	0	0	0	0	1	0.10	1	3	0	13:30	—	—	42	38
Conor Geekie C	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	1	2	11:09	—	—	28	14
Yanni Gourde C	—	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	2	1	0	10:46	—	—	27	62

TBL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy(start)	W	34	33	1	.971	3.05	60:00

Florida Panthers

FLA skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Sam Reinhart C	L1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.14	4	0	0	21:54	—	—	66	66
Aleksander Barkov C	L1	0	0	0	-2	5	0.68	2	1	0	18:52	—	—	60	61
Carter Verhaeghe C	L1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.26	0	2	0	17:04	—	—	65	61
Matthew Tkachuk L	L2	1	0	1	0	2	0.37	0	0	7	16:10	—	—	75	75
Evan Rodrigues C	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.09	1	1	2	15:32	—	—	72	73
Sam Bennett C	L2	0	1	1	-3	3	0.05	5	0	0	15:26	—	—	77	70
Eetu Luostarinen C	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.06	9	1	2	14:53	—	—	58	55
Anton Lundell C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.10	2	2	0	14:14	—	—	45	38
Brad Marchand L	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.34	3	1	2	12:12	—	—	58	56
Mackie Samoskevich R	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.35	1	0	2	9:52	—	—	29	0
Nico Sturm C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.15	2	0	0	9:28	—	—	50	0
Jesper Boqvist C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	4	0	0	9:15	—	—	33	0
Gustav Forsling D	D1	0	0	0	-4	3	0.03	0	0	0	21:59	—	—	49	47
Aaron Ekblad D	D1	0	0	0	-4	2	0.41	2	4	0	20:20	—	—	53	51
Seth Jones D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.02	4	4	0	23:57	—	—	80	97
Niko Mikkola D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	3	0	10	16:29	—	—	73	97
Nate Schmidt D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	0	0	16:11	—	—	79	63
Dmitry Kulikov D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	13:46	—	—	60	49

FLA goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Sergei Bobrovsky(start)	L	21	17	4	.810	2.15	59:26

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Matthew Tkachuk (FLA) 1st 2:43 · assists Sam Bennett, Evan Rodrigues · Forecheck turnover · loose puck · 14.6 mph shot · 6.6 s from entry to goal.

Matthew Tkachuk · 1st 2:43 · FLA

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: loose
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 14.6 mph
Distance: 1 ft
Entry to goal: 6.6 s

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Brayden Point · 1st 17:15 · TBL

Play: deflection
Passes: 2
Shot: 11.1 mph
Distance: 3 ft

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Nick Paul · 2nd 13:17 · TBL

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 38.9 mph
Distance: 21 ft
Entry to goal: 3.1 s

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Jake Guentzel · 3rd 0:21 · TBL

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 15.3 mph
Distance: 7 ft
Entry to goal: 4.0 s

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Luke Glendening · 3rd 14:19 · TBL

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: pass
Odd man: 2-on-1
Passes: 0
Shot: 50.1 mph
Distance: 13 ft
Entry to goal: 2.4 s

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Anthony Cirelli · 3rd 15:00 · TBL EN

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 2-on-0
Passes: 1
Shot: 44.6 mph
Distance: 17 ft
Entry to goal: 2.2 s

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Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.

Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Florida PanthersApr 26, 2025

Fantasy takeaways

Tampa Bay Lightning rout Florida Panthers 5–1

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

Tampa Bay Lightning

Florida Panthers

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Tampa Bay Lightning

Florida Panthers

Goal anatomy

Matthew Tkachuk · 1st 2:43 · FLA

Brayden Point · 1st 17:15 · TBL

Nick Paul · 2nd 13:17 · TBL

Jake Guentzel · 3rd 0:21 · TBL

Luke Glendening · 3rd 14:19 · TBL

Anthony Cirelli · 3rd 15:00 · TBL EN