FLORIDA PANTHERS vs. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING
ROUND 2, GAME 3
MAY 22, 2022
Amalie Arena – Tampa, Fla.
| FLORIDA PANTHERS | TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING |
| 1 | 5 |
PANTHERS POSTGAME QUOTES
Forward Sam Reinhart
On today’s game against Tampa Bay:
“Against a team like this when you are down, first and foremost it’s more tiring trying to chase a game. At this point, everyone’s certainly tired, at this part of the year. At the third period tonight, they were outmanning us in certain areas…when you don’t get rewarded, when you don’t get those goals it’s tough to stick with it and I think we got away from that a little bit. Even though it was working, just obviously the goals weren’t coming.”
Forward Jonathan Huberdeau
On the series:
“….We’ve got to give everything we have, down 3-0, it’s a good team, who knows? We come back tomorrow. It’s a back-to-back. We can show up tomorrow, we can win a game and it’s a different series.”
Interim Head Coach Andrew Brunette
On going into Game 4 on the back-to-back:
“You get another chance. What an opportunity. You can bring it home. That’s got to be our focus. We are a good team when our back is against the wall and it looks bleak. So, hopefully we can find some energy and some passion and some joy in that. It’s more frustration than joy right now.”
CATS STATS
- Sam Reinhart scored Florida’s first power-play goal of the series. He has logged four points (3-1-4) over his first nine playoff games.
- Jonathan Huberdeau and Aleksander Barkov each notched an assist on Reinhart’s power-play tally.
- Huberdeau and Barkov are tied for the all-time franchise record for career playoff power-play assists (6 each). Barkov (2-6-8) and Huberdeau (1-6-7) rank first and second, respectively, on the franchise’s all-time list for power-play points.
- Huberdeau (5-16-21) and Barkov (6-15-21) also share the franchise all-time playoff points record.
- Barkov and Maxim Mamin led Florida with six shots on goal each, tied for the most shots by a Panthers skater in a game this postseason.
- Claude Giroux won nine of his 14 faceoffs (64%).
- Aaron Ekblad led Florida with 25:34 TOI.
- Florida out-hit Tampa Bay, 45-33, led by Radko Gudas (5). The Panthers have logged over 40 hits in six of their nine playoff games in 2021-22.
- The Panthers 4 PIM were their fewest in a game this postseason.
LOOKING AHEAD
Next up for the Cats — The Panthers will face off against the Lightning in Game 4 at Amalie Arena tomorrow, May 23, at 7 P.M. (ET).
