Girgenson Goal: Lightning Win | Game Highlights

Vilmanis spent 14 minutes and 53 seconds on the ice, of which he played a record three minutes and 17 seconds in the majority. The forward used one power play, lost the puck once and finished the game with a negative efficiency coefficient of -1.

This season, Balinskis has scored 14 (5+9) points, 28 penalty minutes and a negative efficiency coefficient of -10 in 48 matches, while Vilmanis has collected four (2+2) points, four penalty minutes and a neutral efficiency coefficient in 14 games.

All three Latvian hockey players who played in this match will go to the Milan and Cortina Olympic Games tomorrow to join the Latvian national team.

Oliver Bjorkstrand, Pontus Holmberj, Brandon Hagel, Jake Guentzel and Erik Chernak scored goals in the Lightning’s game without Girgenson, while Macky Samoskiewicz scored the only accurate shot in the Panthers’ lineup.

In the duel between the Florida clubs, as usual, there was no lack of sharpness and the teams earned a total of 147 penalty minutes – 81 minutes for “Lightning” and 66 minutes for “Panthers”.

In the Eastern Conference tournament table, “Lightning” occupies the first place with 78 points in 55 games, while the champion team “Panthers” of the last two years is only in 14th position with 61 points in 57 games.