The Tampa Bay forward remains sidelined by Aaron Ekblad’s hit in Game 4. The Florida defenseman is suspended for two games.

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The first-round playoff series between the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning has had no shortage of physicality.

Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad was suspended for Game 5 for his forearm hit on Tampa Bay’s Brandon Hagel. And Niko Mikkola ...

Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad has been suspended two games for elbowing Tampa Bay Lightning forward Brandon Hagel in Monday’s 4-2 Panthers win in Game 4 of the teams’ first-round Stanley ...

The Lightning have nine goals in the series — five in their Game 3 win and four in the their three losses combined. Not only ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning find themselves down 3-1 in their opening-round series to the Florida Panthers and on the brink of elimination. Not only are the Lightni ...

Despite having all of the necessary pieces to make another run at the Stanley Cup, the Tampa Bay Lightning are staring down their third straight first-round exi ...

Tensions continued to escalate in Game 4 of the first-round playoff series between the Lightning and Panthers.

Now there has been worse hits we have seen, but it just seems like the Florida Panthers always get away with these dirty ...

The Panthers look to close out the series as we continue our Stanley Cup Playoffs odds series with a Panthers-Lightning ...

In Game 2, Florida's Matthew Tkachuk was ejected after doing something similar to Tampa Bay's Jake Guentzel. In Game 4, Hagel ...