The Tampa Bay Lightning were three-minutes-and-forty-seven seconds from leaving South Florida with two wins and a tied series. Instead, the Florida Panthers scored twice in eleven seconds to take the lead, and added an empty-net goal to pick up a 4-2 win, and a dominating 3-1 lead in the series.
Andrei Vasilevskiy kept the Lightning in the game with 14 saves on 15 shots through the first two periods before finishing the night with 19 stops on 2 shots. His play allowed the Lightning to take a 2-1 lead as Mitchell Chaffee and Erik Cernak scored eleven seconds apart following a questionable hit from Aaron Ekblad that knocked Brandon Hagel out of the game.