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Panthers scored three late to a flash of lightning

The Florida Panthers amazed the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday evening with 4-2 in Sunrise to keep a 3-1 series in the first round in the best-of-Seven-Stanley Cup Playoff series of the Stanley Cup.

The flash received eleven seconds in the middle of the second period in the middle of the second period from Mitchell Chaffee and Erik Cernak. At that time it turned a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 advantage for Tampa Bay.

That would be the score until very late in the third period. Aaron Eckblad scored the game 2-2 at the 16; 13 mark, then eleven seconds later, Seth Jones, to give the Panthers the advantage. Florida added a gate with an empty network too late to win the victory.

Andrei Vasilevskiy ended the game 19 of 22 in net for Tampa Bay.

The Lightning is now excretion when the series returns to Tampa for game five on Wednesday. Puck drop in game 5 between Lightning and Panthers – with the season on the line for Tampa Bay – is planned for 7:00 p.m. in the Amalie Arena.

Cover picture with the kind permission of Getty Images

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