FLORIDA PANTHERS vs. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING
FEB. 13, 2021
BB&T Center – Sunrise, FL
| FLORIDA PANTHERS | TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING |
| 1 | 6 |
- Frank Vatrano tallied a goal for the second consecutive game. Brett Connolly notched his first assist of the season on Vatrano’s goal.
- Vatrano (2-0-2), Connolly (1-1-2) and Eetu Luostarinen (0-2-2) each extended their point streaks to two games.
- Florida out-hit (36-25) and out-shot (34-28) Tampa Bay, and their 17 penalty minutes were a season high. The Panthers went 2-3 on the penalty kill.
- Radko Gudas (6) and MacKenzie Weegar (5) led the Panthers in hits.
- Noel Acciari won 11 of 16 faceoffs.
PANTHERS POSTGAME QUOTES – FEB. 13, 2021
Head Coach Joel Quenneville
“They [Tampa Bay] were a hungrier team. I don’t think they’ve had one of those games where they get outplayed, and they know how to win. They came back with a different appetite tonight, we didn’t get the lead early doing the right things, and it got away from us when we got behind chasing it.”
Forward Aleksander Barkov
“Obviously it didn’t go our way today. Tampa is a really good team, but we’ve got to play our own game in order to beat them, and we didn’t do that today.”
Defenseman MacKenzie Weegar
“We just didn’t come to play tonight. We were in the game for a bit but the second period they just kept taking it to us. We weren’t ready for it, plain and simple. We’ll look for a bounce back Monday.”
