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Lightning renewed the ‘Florida War’ in playoffs once again in playoffs

April 7, 2025; New York, New York, USA; Tampa Bay Lightning Center Brayden Point (21) Madison Square Garden’s first period of New York Rangers’a skating with a disk. Compulsory Credit: Dennis Schneidler-Images Images

Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers have previously brought the “Florida War” to the Stanley Cup playoffs and prepared to return to these wavy waters once again.

In the five seasons, the enemies for the fourth playoff series will play the 1st match of the first round series of the seven best Eastern conferences that started at 20:30 at Tampa at 20:30.

Tampa Bay won the first two meetings in 2021 and 2022, Panthers claimed that the first round of the first round in the first round of the first round of the first round of the match claimed that the first round of the match.

Florida became a betting favorite representing the conference in the Stanley Cup final this year, but the champions finished 7-10-1 in the last 18 games, Advanced Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Bennett Plus Defensemen Dmitry Kulikov and Aaron Ekblad missed an important time.

Panthers’ attack, which led to the attack, TKACHUK, playing for the US team, 4 countries suffered a hundred -to -face body injury. He hasn’t played in a NHL match since February 8, and he missed the last 25 matches on long -term injured reserves.

However, on Saturday, which includes the third line even former Boston Bruins wing player Brad Marchand, Mackie Samoskevich and Bennett made a skating on the right wing on the second line.

“We had four periods in which Samoskevich, Bennett and Tkachuk played together this year, and it looked really good.” He said. “But now we’re going into a playoff atmosphere, so we’ll learn.”

Top Center Aleksander Barkov made 20 goals and 51 assists in 67 games. 12. Class Finnish veteran won 56.5 percent of its activities.

“The best time to be a hockey player begins now.” He said.

Ekblad finished a 20 -game suspension on March 10 for the use of a performance -enhancing substance, while the game will miss 1 and 2 in Tampa.

In the eighth 100-point seasons, Yıldırım was leaning on the star game at the house where they scored 29-8-4 points and 102 notches. However, the Panthers became victorious before 4-2 victory after Christmas on December 22.

Brayden Point, last Tuesday against Florida 5-1 in the house win the team’s best 42th goal scored. This was the first year of Linemate Jake Guentzel from Carolina Hurricanes after swaping there by Pittsburgh Penguins.

Although it is clear to have two 40 scorers, GOALTEN, the most striker of Lightning-NHL, who leads the league with 292 goals (3.56 per game), and the winner of the Eastern Conference.

In the second Art Ross Trophy winning season, Nikita Kucherov produced 121 points (37 goals, 84 assists) due to 116 points of Colorado Aşık Wing player Nathan Mackinnon. Colorado kidnapped Mackinnon’s last three games-Khocherov’s 78-kidnapped-78-78-78.

“You see this from a distance, but seeing it closely, how talented (Kucherov) and his games,” Guentzel said, “Every day you catch yourself in awe.”

Lightning Netminer Andrei Vasilevskiy went 38-20-5 with an average of 2.18 goals, .921 savings percentage and six closure.

Game 1 is expected to go head -to -head with rival Sergei Bobrovsky. Bobrovsky went 33-19-2 with a 2.44 GAA for Florida this season, with a percentage of savings and five closure.

Lightning coach Jon Cooper said on Saturday that Seattle Kraken will miss the entire Panthers series due to lower body injury, which was purchased as a depth of scoring.

-FELD level media

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