Panthers Rally late in 3rd, defeat the flash in game 4 of the eastern 1st round

Ekblad tied it 2-2 at 4:13 p.m. by climbing the shot from Sam Reinhart to a rebound and Andrei Vasilevsky hit his glove at the front.

Florida then took the lead 3-2 at 4:24 pm when Jones' point shot Ryan McDonagh's skate shot and was distracted under Vasilevsky's right arm before jumping over the goal line.

Carter Veraeghe then scored at 6:20 p.m. in an empty network for the 4-2 final.

Florida leads the best-of-7 series 3-1. Game 5 will be in Tampa

“We went well and it is nice to give our fans the victory,” said Jones. “We are 3-1 up and understand that the job is not yet finished. Both teams played hard tonight, and there were many ups and downs. They achieved two in a row and we stayed with it and got victory at the end of the day. ''

Anton Lundell had a goal and a template for the Panthers who are number 3 of the Atlantic Division. Sergei Bobrovsky scored 18 parades.

“We didn't have much of it this year,” said Florida coach Paul Maurice. “They were grinding. It was difficult. We had key men from the line -up.

Mitchell Chaffee and Erik Cernak scored a goal, and Vasilevskiy scored 19 parades for lightning that are number 2 of the Atlantic.

Tampa Bay tried to reach Florida by winning each of the first two street playoff games in this series.

“It was difficult to lose the first two at home, so we have massive challenges ahead of us,” said Lightning coach Jon Cooper. “We passed every test for 115 minutes. We only had hard 11 seconds there at the end of the game. It is unhappy. We played well enough to win both games and came a little short. ''