In Tampa, the visiting Florida Panthers scored three times in the first period, and coasted to a 4-1 win over the Lightning on Tuesday night. 
Eric Staal opened the scoring in the first period to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead.
Staal finished his night with an assist on Anthony Duclair’s firet goal of the season, into an empty net with seven seconds left on the game clock for the 4-1 final.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 saves in the Florida win.
The Panthers improved to 30-26-6.
Florida has won seven of its last 11 matches.
Anton Lundell extended the Panthers’ lead to 2-0 at 15:56 of the first.
Brayden Point was the lone striker for Tampa, he scored in the second period to get the Lightning on the board at 3-1.
Florida pushed it’s first period lead to 3-0 on a marker from Eetu Luostarinen at 17:37.
Tampa dropped to 37-19-4.
The Lightning have lost five of their last seven contests.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 37 saves in the Tampa loss.
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