The Tampa Bay Lightning were in an early hole against the Florida Panthers, again. In the first two games of their NHL first-round playoff series, that spelled disaster for Tampa Bay. Not this time.

The Lightning turned the deficit into a rout in Game 3, beating the Panthers 5-1 Saturday and tightening the series to 2-1.

Matthew Tkachuk scored for the Panthers ... Marco Rossi, Marcus Foligno and Jared Spurgeon scored for Minnesota. Filip ...

Gabriel Landeskog scored his first goal in nearly three years and added an assist, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Dallas Stars 4-0 in Denver on Saturday night to even their playoff series.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 33 shots and the Tampa Bay Lightning came back to beat the Florida Panthers 5-1 Saturday to cut ...

At first, the Florida Panthers looked on track for a third straight dominant win when Matthew Tkachuk opened ... of game time before Minnesota's Jared Spurgeon answered with a tying wraparound ...

Marcus Foligno scored for the third straight game and Marco Rossi and blue-liner Jared Spurgeon also scored ... The Panthers got a goal from Matthew Tkachuk. Sergei Bobrovsky made 17 saves.

Loons hold Dragons to two hits in win Matthew Tkachuk scored for the Panthers ... Marco Rossi, Marcus Foligno and Jared Spurgeon scored for Minnesota. Filip Gustavsson made 42 saves, including ...

Matthew Tkachuk scored for the Panthers ... Marco Rossi, Marcus Foligno and Jared Spurgeon scored for Minnesota. Filip Gustavsson made 42 saves, including a pair of sprawling left pad saves ...