Winning in the Stanley Cup playoffs and becoming a championship-capable team, Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said, is an art. It’s something that has to be learned. Turns out, the Lightning were good teachers.

There is a changing of the guard in Florida and the Eastern Conference, as the Panthers eliminated the Lightning from the playoffs again.

Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 26 saves as the defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers defeated their in-state rival in five games in the first round for the second consecutive season.