| Carolina | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 4 |
| Tampa Bay | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 |
Carolina won shootout 2-1
First Period_1, Carolina, Jarvis 3 (Stastny), 8:29. Penalties_Tampa Bay bench, served by Perry (Too Many Men on the Ice), 6:24; Cernak, TB (Roughing), 14:33.
Second Period_2, Tampa Bay, Colton 3 (Hagel, Sergachev), 5:50 (pp). 3, Tampa Bay, Paul 3 (Stamkos), 9:19. 4, Carolina, Necas 6 (Burns), 14:01. 5, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 5 (Point, Killorn), 19:00 (pp). Penalties_Chatfield, CAR (Tripping), 2:48; Chatfield, CAR (High Sticking), 2:48; Cole, TB (Interference), 9:52; Colton, TB (Interference), 13:41; Chatfield, CAR (Cross Checking), 18:25; Martinook, CAR (Slashing), 18:25.
Third Period_6, Carolina, Skjei 2 (Aho), 13:34 (sh). Penalties_Perry, TB (Tripping), 7:41; Pesce, CAR (Tripping), 12:24.
Overtime_None. Penalties_Point, TB (Slashing), 1:55.
Shootout_Carolina 2 (Burns NG, Svechnikov NG, Necas NG, Teravainen G, Jarvis NG, Aho G), Tampa Bay 1 (Stamkos NG, Kucherov NG, Point NG, Colton G, Hagel NG, Perry NG).
Shots on Goal_Carolina 15-21-14-6_56. Tampa Bay 8-11-3-3_25.
Power-play opportunities_Carolina 1 of 6; Tampa Bay 2 of 5.
Goalies_Carolina, Andersen 4-2-0 (26 shots-23 saves). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 4-3-0 (56-53).
A_0 (19,092). T_3:03.
Referees_Francis Charron, Eric Furlatt. Linesmen_Shandor Alphonso, Libor Suchanek.