SUNRISE (CBSMiami/AP) — The streak is over. Florida’s franchise-record 13-game winning streak came to end Sunday night when Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos each had two goals and two assists, Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 37 shots and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Panthers 8-4.
“We knew the streak they were on,” said Tampa Bay’s Nick Paul, who scored twice. “And we wanted to come here and be the ones that ended it.”
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The Lightning won their third straight, and have scored 22 goals in that stretch.
Victor Hedman had four assists for Tampa Bay, which got two power-play goals and a short-handed tally.