The Florida Panthers battled back from a two-goal deficit, but couldn’t come up with a third goal and lost for the fourth straight time when Brayden Point scored on a breakaway 2:13 into overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 3-2 victory.
Tampa Bay opened the scoring with 7:43 left in the first period with a power-play goal. After Alex Killorn fended off Sam Bennett near the blue line, he went down low to Ross Colton, who sent a hard crossing pass to an open Pat Maroon for the short-range finish.
The Lightning added another 9:02 into the second when Boris Katchouk tried to pass down low, but the puck hit Gustav Forsling’s stick and ended up on unmarked Victor Hedman’s blade on the other side of the ice and he fired it past an out-of-position Sergei Bobrovsky.