Lightning vs. Panthers Prediction, Odds & Stats - December 27, 2025

Scoreboard	1	2	3	Odds
Tampa Bay Lightning 50-26-4-2	2	1	1	+5.5
Florida Panthers 40-38-2-2	1	1	0	-115

Date	Result	Competition
04/29/26	Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) 3 - 2	Atlantic
04/26/26	Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) 3 - 2	Atlantic
04/24/26	Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) 2 - 3	Atlantic
04/21/26	Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) 2 - 3	Atlantic
04/19/26	Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) 4 - 3	Atlantic
04/15/26	NY Rangers Rangers NYR ( 34-39-8-1 ) Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) 4 - 2	Metropolitan
04/15/26	Detroit Red Wings DET ( 41-31-6-4 ) Florida Panthers FLA ( 40-38-2-2 ) 1 - 8	Atlantic
04/13/26	NY Rangers Rangers NYR ( 34-39-8-1 ) Florida Panthers FLA ( 40-38-2-2 ) 2 - 3	Metropolitan
04/11/26	Florida Panthers FLA ( 40-38-2-2 ) Toronto Maple Leafs TOR ( 32-36-10-4 ) 6 - 2	Atlantic
04/09/26	Florida Panthers FLA ( 40-38-2-2 ) Ottawa Senators OTT ( 44-27-10-1 ) 1 - 5	Atlantic
04/07/26	Florida Panthers FLA ( 40-38-2-2 ) Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) 3 - 3	Atlantic
04/05/26	Florida Panthers FLA ( 40-38-2-2 ) Pittsburgh Penguins PIT ( 41-25-6-10 ) 2 - 5	Atlantic

Team	Puckline	Moneyline	Over / Under
Tampa Bay Lightning TB	-1.5 0	0	U+5.50
Florida Panthers FLA	+1.5 0	0	O+5.50

time	fav	line	total
Opening 24 Dec 9:28pm	TB		U +6 -120
Closing 28 Dec 2:38am	TB		O +6.5 -115

Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Florida	130	Points	61	Sam Reinhart Center Tampa Bay
Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Florida	43	+ / -	14	A.J. Greer Left Wing Tampa Bay
Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Florida	231	Shots	201	Sam Bennett Center Tampa Bay
A.J. Greer Left Wing Tampa Bay	113	Penalty Mins	112	Charle-Edouard D'Astous Defense Florida
Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Florida	39	Wins	27	Sergei Bobrovsky Goaltender Tampa Bay
Daniil Tarasov Goaltender Tampa Bay	3.1	GAA	2.3	Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Florida

Jake Guentzel Left Wing Florida	8	Points
Anthony Cirelli Center Florida	6	+ / -
Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Florida	22	Shots	Did not qualify
Brandon Hagel Left Wing Florida	13	Penalty Mins
Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Florida	2	Wins
Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Florida	2.7	GAA

team	win	loss	last 10	w/l streak	ats	money	home	away	total
Tampa Bay Lightning Tampa Bay Lightning	20	13	5-5-0	1L	16-20	85	10-9-0	10-4-2-1	14-18-4
Florida Panthers Florida Panthers	20	14	5-4-0-1	3W	13-23	-825	12-7-1-1	8-7-0	20-16

date	home-away	ats	o/u	FLA:Shots	FLA:Goals	FLA:Assists	TB:Shots	TB:Goals	TB:Assists
02/05/2026	TB 6 - FLA 1	TB	Over 5.5	34	1	2	28	6	9
12/27/2025	FLA 2 - TB 4	TB	Over 5.5	26	2	4	25	4	7
12/15/2025	TB 2 - FLA 5	FLA	Over 6	24	5	7	28	2	4
11/15/2025	FLA 1 - TB 3	TB	Under 6	23	1	2	20	3	4
10/04/2025	FLA 0 - TB 0	TB	Under 6	0	0	0	2	0	0
10/02/2025	TB 5 - FLA 2	TB	Over 6	18	2	3	33	5	10
09/30/2025	TB 3 - FLA 2	TB	Under 5.5	0	2	4	0	3	4
04/30/2025	TB 3 - FLA 6	FLA	Over 5.5	31	6	10	29	3	4
04/28/2025	FLA 4 - TB 2	FLA	Over 5.5	20	2	3	23	4	6
04/26/2025	FLA 1 - TB 5	TB	Over 5.5	22	5	10	34	1	2
04/24/2025	TB 0 - FLA 2	FLA	Under 6	23	2	3	19	0	0
04/22/2025	TB 2 - FLA 6	FLA	Over 5.5	17	6	9	22	2	4
04/15/2025	TB 5 - FLA 1	TB	Over 5.5	24	1	2	31	5	9
03/03/2025	FLA 2 - TB 1	FLA	Under 5.5	29	1	2	29	2	2
12/23/2024	FLA 0 - TB 4	TB	Under 6.5	29	4	7	36	0	0
12/22/2024	TB 2 - FLA 4	FLA	Under 6	26	4	5	21	2	4
10/02/2024	TB 1 - FLA 2 (OT)	FLA	Under 6.5	23	2	3	27	1	1
09/30/2024	FLA 1 - TB 3	TB	Under 6.5	25	3	5	27	1	2
09/25/2024	TB 8 - FLA 7	TB	Over 6	23	7	6	20	8	8
04/29/2024	FLA 6 - TB 1	FLA	Over 6	32	1	2	39	6	11

date	score	ats	o/u	Shots	Goals	Assists
04/29/2026	TB 2 - MON 3	L	Under 5.5	24	3	5
04/26/2026	MON 2 - TB 3	W	Under 6	20	3	6
04/24/2026	MON 3 - TB 2	L	Under 6	17	2	2
04/21/2026	TB 3 - MON 2	W	Under 6	27	2	4
04/19/2026	TB 3 - MON 4 (OT)	L	Over 6	19	4	8
04/15/2026	TB 2 - NYR 4	L	Under 6.5	21	4	8
04/13/2026	TB 4 - DET 3	W	Over 6.5	30	3	5
04/11/2026	BOS 1 - TB 2	W	Under 6	24	2	4
04/09/2026	MON 2 - TB 1	L	Under 6.5	18	1	2
04/07/2026	OTT 6 - TB 2	L	Over 6.5	30	2	4

date	score	ats	o/u	Shots	Goals	Assists
04/15/2026	FLA 8 - DET 1	W	Over 6	27	8	14
04/13/2026	FLA 3 - NYR 2	W	Under 6	16	3	4
04/11/2026	TOR 2 - FLA 6	W	Over 6.5	19	2	2
04/09/2026	OTT 5 - FLA 1	L	Under 6.5	28	5	6
04/07/2026	MON 3 - FLA 3	W	Under 6.5	32	3	6
04/05/2026	PIT 5 - FLA 2	L	Over 6.5	23	5	8
04/04/2026	PIT 9 - FLA 4	L	Over 6.5	31	9	13
04/02/2026	FLA 2 - BOS 1	W	Under 6.5	24	2	1
03/31/2026	FLA 6 - OTT 3	W	Over 6	29	6	12
03/29/2026	NYR 3 - FLA 1	L	Under 6	22	3	4

Tampa Bay Lightning TB Florida Panthers FLA

avg	rank	edge in	rank
2.6	9	Goals Per Game	1
2.8	6	Goals Against Per Game	1
26.8	9	Shots Per Game	1
23.4	1	Shots Against Per Game	1
9.7	10	Shooting %	1
12.0	14	Opponent Shooting %	1
3.4	5	Shot Differential Per Game	1
9.7	10	Scoring Efficiency Ratio	1
.880	7	Save %	1
.900	4	Opponent Save %	1
15.4	6	Penalty Minutes Per Game	1
0.8	4	Power Play Goals Per Game	1
1	9	Power Play Goals Against Per Game	1
17.4	7	Power Play %	1
76.2	13	Penalty Kill %	1
1.65	11	Blocks To Shots On Goal Ratio	1

offence

Tampa Bay Lightning TB

	Season stats	rank
Goals	3.49	4
Shots	28.11	14
Power Play (%)	21	15
Faceoff (%)	47	29
Penalty Mins	1207	1

Florida Panthers FLA

	Season stats	rank
Goals	3	18
Shots	27.99	18
Power Play (%)	20	20
Faceoff (%)	47	30
Penalty Mins	912	3

defence

Tampa Bay Lightning TB

	Season stats	rank
Goals	3.49	4
Shots	28.11	14
Power Play (%)	21	15
Faceoff (%)	47	29
Penalty Mins	1207	1

Florida Panthers FLA

	Season stats	rank
Goals	3	18
Shots	27.99	18
Power Play (%)	20	20
Faceoff (%)	47	30
Penalty Mins	912	3

Tampa Bay Lightning TB

player (position)	status		ats*current	o/u*	notes
Nick Paul (LW)	Ques Fri	Illness - 29 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Pontus Holmberg (RW)	Ques Fri	Upper Body - 22 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Charle-Edouard D'Astous (D)	Ques Fri	Undisclosed - 20 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Zemgus Girgensons (LW)	Ques Mon	Undisclosed - 11 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Darren Raddysh (D)	Ques Wed	Undisclosed - 11 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Brandon Hagel (LW)	Ques Sat	Lower Body - 09 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Scott Sabourin (RW)	Ques Mon	Undisclosed - 01 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Brandon Hagel (LW)	Ques Tues	Undisclosed - 01 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Nikita Kucherov (RW)	Ques Tues	Illness - 29 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Victor Hedman (D)	Out indefinitely	Personal - 20 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details

Florida Panthers FLA

player (position)	status		ats*current	o/u*	notes
Tomas Nosek (LW)	Out Wed	Leg - 15 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Gustav Forsling (D)	Out Wed	Undisclosed - 15 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Sam Bennett (C)	Ques Wed	Lower Body - 13 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Carter Verhaeghe (C)	Ques Wed	Undisclosed - 12 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Dmitry Kulikov (D)	out for season	Finger - 08 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Matthew Tkachuk (LW)	Ques Wed	Personal - 07 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Donovan Sebrango (D)	Ques Thurs	Undisclosed - 01 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Dmitry Kulikov (D)	Ques Sun	Face - 01 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Aaron Ekblad (D)	out for season	Hand - 01 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Evan Rodrigues (C)	out for season	Upper Body - 26 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details

Tampa Bay Lightning TB

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Florida Panthers FLA

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Tampa Bay Lightning TB

Over is 5-2 in Lightning last 7 games as a road underdog of +201 or greater.

Under is 6-2-1 in Lightning last 9 Saturday games.

Lightning are 49-15 in their last 64 games as a road favorite of -151 to -200.

Lightning are 6-24 in their last 30 games as an underdog of +201 or greater.

Lightning are 16-6 in their last 22 games as a road favorite of -201 or greater.

Florida Panthers FLA

Panthers are 21-44 in their last 65 games as an underdog of +201 or greater.

Under is 6-2 in Panthers last 8 games as a home underdog.

Under is 23-9-3 in Panthers last 35 games as a home favorite of -201 or greater.

Over is 17-7 in Panthers last 24 when their opponent allows 2 goals or less in their previous game.

Panthers are 4-0 in their last 4 games as a home underdog of +110 to +150.

Team	Win / Loss	ATS	OU
Buffalo Sabres BUF	50-23	50-28	40-36-2
Tampa Bay Lightning TB	50-26	44-33	42-31-4
Montreal Canadiens MON	48-24	44-33	42-31-4
Boston Bruins BOS	45-27	50-28	40-36-2
Ottawa Senators OTT	44-27	30-43	37-31-5
Detroit Red Wings DET	41-31	38-34	34-30-8
Florida Panthers FLA	40-38	30-43	42-30-1
Toronto Maple Leafs TOR	32-36	30-41	40-23-8

Tampa Bay Lightning

Pitchers

POS	Player

Hitters

POS	Player

Florida Panthers

Pitchers

POS	Player

Hitters

POS	Player

Game Statistics

Shots

16.0

7.7

Shooting %

Penalties

Penalty Minutes

Power Plays

Goals

Team	Last 5 Matches
Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 )	L W L W L
Florida Panthers FLA ( 40-38-2-2 )	W W L L L

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Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 )

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Matchup

Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Florida	130	Points	61	Sam Reinhart Center Tampa Bay
Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Florida	43	+ / -	14	A.J. Greer Left Wing Tampa Bay
Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Florida	231	Shots	201	Sam Bennett Center Tampa Bay
A.J. Greer Left Wing Tampa Bay	113	Penalty Mins	112	Charle-Edouard D'Astous Defense Florida
Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Florida	39	Wins	27	Sergei Bobrovsky Goaltender Tampa Bay
Daniil Tarasov Goaltender Tampa Bay	3.1	GAA	2.3	Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Florida

Jake Guentzel Left Wing Florida	8	Points
Anthony Cirelli Center Florida	6	+ / -
Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Florida	22	Shots	Did not qualify
Brandon Hagel Left Wing Florida	13	Penalty Mins
Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Florida	2	Wins
Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Florida	2.7	GAA

nhl Standings Complete TB Standings

Team	Win / Loss	ATS	OU
Buffalo Sabres BUF	50-23	50-28	40-36-2
Tampa Bay Lightning TB	50-26	44-33	42-31-4
Montreal Canadiens MON	48-24	44-33	42-31-4
Boston Bruins BOS	45-27	50-28	40-36-2
Ottawa Senators OTT	44-27	30-43	37-31-5
Detroit Red Wings DET	41-31	38-34	34-30-8
Florida Panthers FLA	40-38	30-43	42-30-1
Toronto Maple Leafs TOR	32-36	30-41	40-23-8