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ESPN's slate of exclusive broadcasts continues connected Friday with the archetypal matchup successful the Battle of Florida for 2022-23. The Florida Panthers are hosting the Tampa Bay Lightning, with sum opening astatine 7:30 p.m. ET connected ESPN+ and Hulu.
As an added bonus, determination volition beryllium a Star Watch alternate broadcast presumption connected ESPN+. For this game, fans tin travel Matthew Tkachuk and Steven Stamkos with isolated cameras and statistics. The Star Watch provender volition besides see the superior crippled camera, truthful viewers won't miss immoderate action.
To assistance get you acceptable for the game, we've enactment unneurotic a usher connected each the cardinal players to ticker for each team, including in-depth statistical insights from ESPN Stats & Information, and more.
This season, 103 exclusive games volition beryllium broadcast crossed ESPN, ESPN+, Hulu and ABC. The implicit broadcast docket tin beryllium recovered here.
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Tampa Bay Lightning astatine Florida Panthers
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Line: Tampa Bay -110 | Over/under: 6.5
Lightning
Power Rankings: 22
Leading scorer: Steven Stamkos (6 G, 1 A)
2022-23 record: 1-3-0
The Lightning person won conscionable 1 crippled retired of 4 this season, marking their worst four-game commencement since 2008-09 (two points done 4 games). The past clip the Lightning had conscionable 1 triumph done 5 games was successful 2011-12.
Tampa Bay has fixed up 14 goals done 4 games, and 8 of those 14 goals person travel successful the 3rd period, tied with the Kings for the 2nd astir successful the NHL this season. Only the Canucks person fixed up much (nine).
Since 2012-2013, the Lightning person allowed 14 oregon much goals done 4 games conscionable 2 different times: 17 successful 2021-22 and 15 successful 2017-18.
Tampa Bay has scored conscionable 10 goals done 4 games, tied for 22nd successful the league. It is besides the fewest goals that the Lightning person scored done 4 games since 2008-09 erstwhile they scored eight.
Through 4 games, the Lightning person allowed 136 shots against. It's the eighth astir successful the NHL, and it is the ninth astir done 4 games successful franchise history.
Stamkos' six goals person travel during a four-game extremity scoring streak to commencement the season, which is present the 2nd longest streak to commencement the play successful franchise history. Nikita Kucherov had a seven-game goal-scoring streak successful 2017-18, during which helium scored 8 goals total.
Stamkos has scored 487 goals successful his career, and 37 of them person travel against the Panthers during the regular season. Those are his astir goals against a azygous hostile successful the NHL.
Panthers
Power Rankings: 6
Leading scorer: Matthew Tkachuk (2 G, 4 A)
2022-23 record: 3-1-0
The Panthers volition purpose for their 4th triumph successful the archetypal 5 games. Those 4 wins would beryllium tied for the 2nd astir done 5 games successful franchise history.
Florida has won its lone location crippled truthful acold this season, aft mounting a single-season home-ice grounds successful 2021-22 successful galore categories: goals (191), wins (34), points (68), winning streak (11 games twice), shorthanded goals (7) and overtime goals (7).
The Panthers are averaging 35.8 shots connected extremity per game, the eighth highest mean successful the NHL. Last play they averaged the astir shots connected extremity per crippled of immoderate squad successful the league, astatine 37.3.
Florida has played Tampa Bay 28 times since the commencement of the 2016-17 play and person a grounds of 11-11-6. Those 11 regularisation losses are tied for the astir against a azygous hostile during that span (they person 11 against the Carolina Hurricanes arsenic well).
Florida has scored 13 goals done 4 games, and 10 of those goals person travel portion playing astatine 5-on-5, which is tied for the 4th astir successful the NHL successful that situation.
After being acquired successful the offseason from the Calgary Flames, Tkachuk has wasted nary clip getting utilized to Florida arsenic helium presently leads each Panthers players with six points successful 4 games.
Tkachuk became the 37th subordinate successful franchise past to people a extremity successful their Panthers debut with an empty-net extremity Oct. 13 astatine the New York Islanders. He is the sixth subordinate successful nine past to tally a extremity successful his archetypal 2 games with Florida.
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