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Tampa Bay Lightning 5–7 Florida Panthers: NHL regular season, 1 January 2000
Tampa Bay Lightning 5–7 Florida Panthers in the 1999–2000 NHL regular season.
1 January 2000 · Sunrise
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The story
Tampa Bay Lightning visited Florida Panthers in the NHL regular season on 1 January 2000. Florida Panthers won by 2 goals, with the final score recorded as Tampa Bay Lightning 5, Florida Panthers 7.
How it unfolded
The published final is recorded as a regulation result in the daily schedule record. The fixture formed part of the league’s 1999–2000 regular-season programme and is treated here as one distinct completed game, not as a summary of the full day’s slate.
The wider picture
The result was checked against the NHL’s official dated schedule and an independent daily score archive. This source-checked report limits its statistical claims to the confirmed teams, date, final score and outcome, preserving the historical result without importing unsupported retrospective detail.
Period by period
| Final | Tampa Bay Lightning | Florida Panthers |
|---|---|---|
| Final | 5 | 7 |
Sources
Check the original record.
Open the governing body or organiser’s publication for the underlying result, decision or tournament update.