The game started quite slow for both sides. The Florida Panthers, in particular, were stuck in the neutral zone, unable to get pucks past center half.
As the game progressed, though, so did the Panthers’ play. They began to attack in numbers and started to create more meaningful chances.
They were awarded the game’s first power play after Braydon Coburn hooked Aleksander Barkov on a partial breakaway, but failed to create anything out of their chance while a man up.
The Lightning had a short-lived man advantage of their own when Sergei Bobrovsky tripped up Matthieu Joseph beside the net.