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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSUNRISE, Fla<\/strong>. — Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> made 32 saves, and the Tampa Bay Lightning extended their lead in the best-of-7 Stanley Cup First Round with a 3-1 win against the Florida Panthers in Game 2 at BB&T Center on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abHe was outstanding,\u00bb Lightning captain Steven Stamkos<\/a> said. \u00abWe know he’s the best goalie in the world; he showed it tonight. He’s our rock back there and he was outstanding tonight and a big part of our win.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stamkos, Ondrej Palat<\/a> and Yanni Gourde<\/a> scored for the defending Stanley Cup champion Lightning, the No. 3 seed in the Discover Central Division. Tampa Bay won Game 1 5-4 on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abWe’ve been here before,\u00bb Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. \u00abIf you want to have a long run and give yourself a chance, there are going to be times that we have to win the 5-4 game and there’s going to be times you have to win the 2-1 game. We’ve been here before and I thought the guys did a great job just shutting it down.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris Driedger<\/a>, making his first Stanley Cup Playoff start on his 27th birthday, made 26 saves. Mason Marchment<\/a> scored for the No. 2-seeded Panthers, who played without center Sam Bennett<\/a> after he was suspended one game for his hit on Blake Coleman<\/a> in the third period of Game 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abIt had the pace of the last game particularly early and then they scored, and they scored after that,\u00bb Panthers coach Joel Quenneville said. \u00abThen they had the lead they were looking for, so it was more patient of a game and a lot more structured of a game. We fought back, had a good later part of the second and were in the right spot. We couldn’t buy the goal we were looking for.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Game 3 is at Tampa Bay on Thursday. Teams with a 2-0 lead are 330-51 (86.6 percent) winning a best-of-7 NHL playoff series, including 4-0 in the first round last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n nhl.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SUNRISE, Fla. – Andrei Vasilevskiy hizo 32 salvamentos, y los Tampa Bay Lightning extendieron su ventaja en la primera ronda de la Copa Stanley al mejor de 7 con una victoria por 3-1 contra los Florida Panthers en el Juego 2 en BB&T Center el martes. \u00abEstuvo sobresaliente\u00bb, dijo el capit\u00e1n de Lightning, Steven Stamkos. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hockey"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108646,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108642\/revisions\/108646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cms.nhl.bamgrid.com\/images\/photos\/324814812\/1136x640\/cut.jpeg?w=640&ssl=1\" "\\"udpated")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMarchment cuts the lead to 1<\/h4>\n\n\n\n