WESLEY CHAPEL - Sunshine State Showcase Showdown.

Coming up just short in their second game of the Rookie Showcase, the Florida Panthers fell 3-2 to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.

“Super competitive out there,” 2025 fifth-round draft pick (129th overall) Shamar Moses said of his first Battle of Florida. “I’d say double the competitiveness as the game yesterday, so that just shows the rivalry, even with the prospects here. It’s fun.”

It did not take long for the cross-state rivals to show their lack of love.

A physical first period, the intensity boiled over quickly as Colton Huard and Grant Spada dropped the gloves.

Going down a man early, Hunter St. Martin received a game-misconduct for boarding shortly after the scrap.

Pushing through the adversity, the Panthers killed off t

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