FLORIDA PANTHERS vs. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING
ROUND 2, GAME 4
MAY 23, 2022
Amalie Arena – Tampa, Fla.
| FLORIDA PANTHERS | TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING |
| 0 | 2 |
PANTHERS POSTGAME QUOTES
Forward Aleksander Barkov
On the series vs. TBL:
“Most of the games were tight games, but they ended up on top every game. That’s how it went.”
On tonight’s game:
“I think it was our best game this series, but again, it wasn’t enough. We can say we didn’t get bounces, we didn’t get lucky…[Tampa Bay] played well.”
Defenseman Aaron Ekblad
On Florida’s compete in Game 4:
“Tonight I thought we did a really good job of enforcing the game plan that we set out to for tonight. But obviously, it just wasn’t enough. We got our chances, we just didn’t capitalize on those scoring chances.”
“The effort was there. Contributions up and down the line up every night got us to where we were in the regular season and got us through Washington. I can’t say enough about that. The effort obviously was there, no doubt about it.”
Interim Head Coach Andrew Brunette
On Florida’s effort tonight:
“I thought it was the best game we played [in this series], a sixty minute game…. We played like we played all year tonight…. A sixty minute game at that pace, looked like us.”
On the series:
“I think it’s just one of those things for this group. Another step, another learning curve for them. We got through one round and we run into Tampa again.”
CATS STATS
- The Panthers fell to the Lightning in the series in game 4.
- Florida out-shot Tampa Bay 49-26, their third-most shots on goal in a game in club history.
- Claude Giroux led Florida with nine shots on goal, tied for the most in one playoff game in franchise history.
- Giroux finished the postseason second on Florida in total points (3-5-8).
- Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 24 of 25 TBL shots he faced (.960 save percentage). He started all 10 playoff games for Florida, finishing with a .929 overall even-strength save percentage.
- Radko Gudas logged nine hits, tied for the fourth-most by a Panthers skater since the League began tracking hits in 2005-06. Over 16 playoff games with Florida, Gudas has registered at least nine hits three times.
- Gudas completed the postseason with a team-high 45 hits.
- Florida out-hit Tampa Bay 41-29, posting at least 40 hits for the seventh time this postseason.
- Joe Thornton made his Panthers playoff debut, skating in his 187th career NHL playoff game.
- Aaron Ekblad led Florida with 26:20 TOI.
- Carter Verhaeghe led the Panthers in goals (6), assists (6) and points (12) during the postseason, and tied with Gustav Forsling (both +7) for the highest overall plus-minus rating.
- 13 different Panthers skaters scored at least one goal over Florida’s 10 playoff games, while 18 recorded at least one point.
