The teams split their four regular-season matchups, each winning twice. In their most recent encounter on April 15, Tampa Bay ...

J.J. Moser, Zemgus Girgensons, and rookies Conor Geekie and Gage Concalves will make their playoff debuts Tuesday ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers have brought "The Battle of Florida" into the Stanley Cup playoffs before, and ...

For five years, the Eastern Conference road to the Stanley Cup Final has meant Interstate 75. Florida is at Tampa Bay in Game ...

The time has finally come for the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers to drop the puck for their first-round playoff series. What a treat for hockey fans to have these two rivals go head-to-head ...

Tampa Bay Lightning wing Nikita Kucherov just won his second consecutive regular-season scoring title and third overall.

Fittingly, perhaps, the Lightning and the Florida Panthers don’t begin their series until nearly 9 p.m. (ET) Tuesday — a main ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning kick off their playoff series against the Florida Panthers on April 22. It will be a series for fans ...

Panthers vs. Lightning in the NHL playoffs, the battle of Florida, a matchup that has seemed to decide which team will ...

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning host the Florida Panthers to open the Eastern Conference first round. The teams meet Tuesday for the fifth time this season. The teams tied the regular season ...

The one thing that seems different from recent postseasons is that Tampa Bay is much more of a matchup nightmare.

Lightning head coach Jon Cooper provided a crushing injury update about Oliver Bjorkstrand ahead of the opening round vs ...