Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Florida PanthersDec 27, 2025

FinalSaturday, Dec 27, 2025· Amerant Bank Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
TBL	2	1	1	4		TBL	12	8	5	25
FLA	1	1	0	2		FLA	5	8	13	26

: TBL 44FLA 65
: TBL 3.48FLA 3.68
PP goals: TBL 0FLA 1
Hits: TBL 32FLA 27
Blocks: TBL 17FLA 9
PIM: TBL 87FLA 49
: TBL 48%FLA 52%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Florida Panthers 4–2

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Florida Panthers 4–2 at FLA. Nikita Kucherov (TBL) led the scoring with 2G 0A. FLA's first power-play unit (Marchand, Jones, Reinhart, Bennett and Samoskevich) scored 1 power-play goal on 14 attempts in 6:44 together.

Points
Nikita Kucherov had two goals (2 points) on 3 shots in 18:29.Kucherov
Points
Anthony Cirelli had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 17:10.Cirelli
PP1
FLA's first power-play unit (Marchand, Jones, Reinhart, Bennett and Samoskevich) scored 1 power-play goal on 14 attempts in 6:44 together.Marchand Jones Reinhart Bennett Samoskevich
New line
New look for TBL: Kucherov–Point–Goncalves skated 4:28 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (75% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kucherov Point Goncalves
Usage
Jake Guentzel (TBL) played 27:14, +7:04 up on his 20:10 season average over 80 games.Guentzel
Usage
Brad Marchand (FLA) played 21:55, +4:16 up on his 17:39 season average over 51 games.Marchand
Usage
Maxwell Crozier (TBL) played 20:25, +4:32 up on his 15:53 season average over 34 games.Crozier
Usage
Declan Carlile (TBL) played 18:32, +3:51 up on his 14:41 season average over 41 games.Carlile

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 109 of 109 attempts · FLA 65 · TBL 44

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 31% of the game, FLA 35%.

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

Head-to-head matchups

FLA skaters (rows) against TBL skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the FLA side.

Matchup matrix

FLA xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

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	40
	1.79	1.63
	1.76	1.49
	8	7
	2	1
	8	11
	−0.019	+0.019
	31%	35%

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

L1Gourde – Girgensons – Holmberg
7:0063% CF
L2Kucherov – Point – Goncalves
4:2875% CF
L3Guentzel – Bjorkstrand – Cirelli
3:1450% CF
L4Sabourin – Paul – Douglas
3:0620% CF
D1D'Astous – Crozier
9:4147% CF
D2Raddysh – Moser
8:1152% CF
D3Santini – Carlile
6:0618% CF

PP1Kucherov – Guentzel – Bjorkstrand – Point – Raddysh
8:1280% CF
PP2Paul – Cirelli – D'Astous – Holmberg – Goncalves
0:28
PK1FGuentzel – Cirelli
6:05
PK2FGourde – Girgensons
4:21
PK1DCrozier – Moser
3:52
PK2DRaddysh – Carlile
2:14

Current TBL line combinations →

Florida Panthers

L1Reinhart – Luostarinen – Lundell
5:5855% CF
L2Marchand – Verhaeghe – Bennett
4:1040% CF
L3Kunin – Boqvist – Studnicka
3:0283% CF
L4Greer – Rodrigues – Samoskevich
2:32100% CF
D1Ekblad – Forsling
8:3071% CF
D2Petry – Balinskis
8:1660% CF
D3Jones – Mikkola
7:1440% CF

PP1Marchand – Jones – Reinhart – Bennett – Samoskevich
6:44100% CF
PP2Petry – Ekblad – Rodrigues – Luostarinen – Lundell
3:1567% CF
PK1FReinhart – Lundell
3:57
PK2FMarchand – Luostarinen
3:04
PK1DJones – Mikkola
4:51
PK2DEkblad – Forsling
2:51

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
Zemgus Girgensons C	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.08	2	0	2	16:06	—	—	46	46
Yanni Gourde C	L1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.04	1	1	6	15:04	—	—	63	94
Pontus Holmberg R	L1	1	0	1	+1	1	0.38	1	2	0	13:20	—	—	65	91
Nikita Kucherov R	L2	2	0	2	+2	3	1.28	2	0	0	18:29	—	—	67	87
Brayden Point C	L2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.37	0	0	0	17:16	—	—	73	93
Gage Goncalves C	L2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.04	0	0	0	10:52	—	—	56	59
Jake Guentzel C	L3	1	0	1	+1	3	0.51	2	3	2	27:14	—	—	35	39
Anthony Cirelli C	L3	0	2	2	+1	1	0.08	3	1	2	17:10	—	—	33	21
Oliver Bjorkstrand R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.13	2	0	6	12:13	—	—	50	80
Nick Paul L	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.12	4	2	0	14:22	—	—	35	24
Scott Sabourin R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	26	6:32	—	—	20	1
Curtis Douglas C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	17	3:45	—	—	33	3
Maxwell Crozier D	D1	0	1	1	+2	1	0.07	4	3	6	20:25	—	—	46	63
Charle-Edouard D'Astous D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	1	0	8	16:42	—	—	57	79
Darren Raddysh D	D2	0	0	0	0	5	0.36	3	2	0	25:07	—	—	52	47
J.J. Moser D	D2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.03	2	2	10	22:28	—	—	52	41
Declan Carlile D	D3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	3	0	0	18:32	—	—	35	53
Steven Santini D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	1	2	7:58	—	—	31	50

TBL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy(start)	W	26	24	2	.923	3.68	59:46

Florida Panthers

FLA skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Sam Reinhart C	L1	0	1	1	-2	1	0.35	0	1	0	24:43	—	—	44	17
Eetu Luostarinen C	L1	1	0	1	+1	5	0.87	6	0	0	20:14	—	—	73	91
Anton Lundell C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	1	0	0	20:13	—	—	61	71
Brad Marchand L	L2	1	0	1	-4	3	0.69	2	0	2	21:55	—	—	35	8
Sam Bennett C	L2	0	1	1	-4	2	0.28	3	0	10	19:19	—	—	37	8
Carter Verhaeghe C	L2	0	0	0	-3	1	0.20	1	0	4	14:37	—	—	36	7
Jesper Boqvist C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	7:51	—	—	69	71
Luke Kunin C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	15	4:39	—	—	63	67
Jack Studnicka C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	0	0	0	3:42	—	—	75	80
Mackie Samoskevich R	L4	0	1	1	0	2	0.59	1	0	2	18:14	—	—	63	54
Evan Rodrigues C	L4	0	1	1	+1	3	0.19	0	1	2	16:56	—	—	53	80
A.J. Greer L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	3	1	6	10:12	—	—	39	39
Aaron Ekblad D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.01	2	1	4	20:36	—	—	65	75
Gustav Forsling D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.11	0	0	0	19:00	—	—	53	58
Jeff Petry D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	1	2	0	14:28	—	—	63	68
Uvis Balinskis D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	0	2	9:51	—	—	53	50
Seth Jones D	D3	0	0	0	-3	2	0.04	0	3	2	25:53	—	—	44	13
Niko Mikkola D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	4	0	0	16:47	—	—	46	34

FLA goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Sergei Bobrovsky(start)	L	24	21	3	.875	2.50	58:50

Goal anatomy

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

Eetu Luostarinen (FLA) 1st 5:37 · assists Mackie Samoskevich, Evan Rodrigues · Rebound · 14.2 mph shot.

Eetu Luostarinen · 1st 5:37 · FLA

Play: rebound
Passes: 0
Shot: 14.2 mph
Distance: 11 ft
Type: rebound

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Jake Guentzel · 1st 13:05 · TBL SH

Play: rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 73.1 mph
Distance: 19 ft
Entry to goal: 2.4 s

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Pontus Holmberg · 1st 19:52 · TBL

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-1
Passes: 1 (royal road)
Shot: 65.6 mph
Distance: 27 ft
Entry to goal: 2.5 s

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Nikita Kucherov · 2nd 2:31 · TBL

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 2-on-1
Passes: 4 (royal road)
Shot: 21.1 mph
Distance: 6 ft
Entry to goal: 2.4 s

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Brad Marchand · 2nd 7:05 · FLA PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 52.0 mph
Distance: 12 ft
Type: one-timer

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Nikita Kucherov · 3rd 19:04 · TBL EN

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: 2-on-0
Passes: 0
Shot: 36.2 mph
Distance: 56 ft
Entry to goal: 4.7 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 PanthersDec 27, 2025

Fantasy takeaways

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Florida Panthers 4–2

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Head-to-head matchups

Matchup matrix

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

Eetu Luostarinen · 1st 5:37 · FLA

Jake Guentzel · 1st 13:05 · TBL SH

Pontus Holmberg · 1st 19:52 · TBL

Nikita Kucherov · 2nd 2:31 · TBL

Brad Marchand · 2nd 7:05 · FLA PP

Nikita Kucherov · 3rd 19:04 · TBL EN