SUNRISE — The Florida Panthers failed to capitalize on home-ice advantage, falling 5-1 to the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 3 of their first-round series on April 26. Florida got star defenseman Aaron Ekblad back from a 20-game suspension, with captain Aleksander Barkov returning after leaving Game 2 with an injury with 10 minutes to go.

The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Florida Panthers 5-1 on Saturday afternoon at Amerant Bank Arena, narrowing Florida's series lead to 2-1. The road team has won all three games in this tightly contested series.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 31 shots and the Tampa Bay Lightning came back to beat the Florida Panthers 5-1 to cut their deficit in the first-round series to 2-1.