Raw Charge · May 16, 2021
Flashback: The first meeting between the Lightning and the Panthers
Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty ImagesWith the first postgame season looming between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Florida Panthers later today, it’s time to look back at the first time the two teams met on the ice. Officially it happened on October 9th, 1993, a 2-0 Panthers win that was their first in franchise history. That’s not the game we’re going to talk about, though. Three weeks earlier the two teams met in a pre-season game that was pretty much peak 1990s Florida hockey.