The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Florida Panthers 5-4 in overtime in a wild comeback victory. The Bolts fell behind 4-1 before mounting the comeback over the second half of the game to salvage both points.
Ryan McDonagh returned to the lineup after missing the final two periods of Thursday’s game against Buffalo following a bad hit from Jack Eichel along the boards. Adam Erne was the odd man out among the forwards possibly due to the illness that kept him out of Thursday’s game.
Ondrej Palat started the game on a line with Steven Stamkos and Yanni Gourde but moved around including taking some shifts with Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov.