The Florida Panthers made it all look inevitable and unpreventable by the end Wednesday, the way the best teams do, as if by the end there was nothing Tampa Bay could do to shake its fate. Would

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.

The Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers traded goals all night, but it was the Panthers that came away with a 6-3 win in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round matchup to take the series on Wednesday at AMALIE Arena.