Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett talks on his team’s off-day after they beat the host Tampa Bay Lightning 6-2 in Game 1 of their 2025 Stanley Cup playoff series at Amalie Arena on Tuesday, April 22, 2025.
The Panthers lead the best-of-7 series with Game 2 on Thursday.
Florida had Matthew Tkachuk back in the lineup for the first time since Feb. 8; he scored twice.
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Florida led 2-1 going into the second on goals from Sam bennett and Sam Reinhart; the Panthers scored three straight goals (one from Nate Schmidt, two from Tkachuk) in the second to open things up.
Schmidt got the final goal of the night in the third.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 20 saves.
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It would be nice if we could here the questions
We better not lose Benny in the off season.