The Panthers are up 2-0 and heading home but they may have lost Aleksander Barkov to an injury when Lightning forward Brandon Hagel nailed him in the third period.

Nate Schmidt scored an early goal — his third in two games — which was enough for the Panthers to pull off a 2-0 win over the Lightning and head back to Sunrise with a 2-0 series lead.

A brick wall has been sighted in Tampa. Stopping all 19 shots fired in his direction, Sergei Bobrovsky backstopped the Florida Panthers to a 2-0 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference First Round at Amalie Arena on Thursday.