The first-round playoff series between the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning has had no shortage of physicality.

In a highly anticipated Game 3 of the NHL playoffs, Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk delivered a significant open-ice hit on Tampa Bay Lightning forward Jake Guentzel. The incident, which ...

In Game 2, Florida's Matthew Tkachuk was ejected after doing something similar to Tampa Bay's Jake Guentzel. In Game 4, Hagel ...

Tampa Bay Lightning blow a late lead in Game 4 to sabotage its chances of a comeback against Florida Panthers.

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The defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers get their first chance this spring to close out the Tampa Bay Lightning ...

Following their five-minute kill in Game 4, the Panthers went on to score a pair of goals within a span of just 11 seconds ...

For starters, there hasn’t been much response from the Lightning to the physicality of the Panthers. Hagel may have been ...

Aaron Ekblad and Seth Jones scored third-period goals 11 seconds apart and the Florida Panthers stormed from behind to beat ...

Tensions continued to escalate in Game 4 of the first-round playoff series between the Lightning and Panthers.

Monday was just Ekblad’s second game back in the Panthers’ lineup after serving a 20-game suspension for violating the terms of the NHL and NHLPA performance enhancing substan ...

As tightly contested and high quality as the Lightning’s first-round playoff series against the Panthers has been, it has gone rogue in terms of hitting. Having the NHL’s department of player safety ...