A much more physical Tampa Bay Lightning played vastly better than they did in Game 1, but couldn’t find the back of the net as they dropped Game 2 to the Florida Panthers, 2-0. Nate Schmidt scored his third goal of the series while Sergei Bobrovsky made 19 saves to pick up the victory. Andrei Vasilevskiy rebounded with 21 saves, including a stellar stop on a breakaway seconds into the game.
Anthony Cirelli was able to skate, and Coach Cooper opted to go with twelve forwards as Mitchell Chaffee cycled into the line-up. Darren Raddysh was scratched.
The story of the game was the Panthers’ penalty kill.