Patric Hornqvist scored the lone goal for the Pittsburgh Penguins in game one, managing to get one past Andrei Vasilevskiy on the powerplay. Meanwhile, Alex Killorn, Ondrej Palat, and Jonathan Drouin all picked up goals for the Tampa Bay Lightning to lead them to the win.
The game was also marred by several bad injuries on each side. Just minutes into the game, Ryan Callahan dangerously hit Kris Letang from behind into the boards. Later, Ben Bishop went down with what appeared to be a knee or groin injury after making an awkward save and had to be stretchered off the ice; Chris Kunitz hit Tyler Johnson knee-to-knee and the Tampa forward had to be helped off the ice.