Watch: Lightning's Gourde strips Panthers en route to 1st career goal

With three regular centermen out of the Tampa Bay Lightning's lineup, someone needed to step up - enter Yanni Gourde.

The 25-year-old pivot, playing in just his fifth game this season, stifled Vincent Trocheck at the blue line and proceeded to complete the brilliant solo effort with the Panthers forward draped all over him.

The picturesque short-handed marker was the first goal of Gourde's career.