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The Florida Panthers got here up quick on Thursday night time in Dawn, however not for lack of effort.
Florida, nonetheless taking part in with out stars Sasha Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk, took the visiting Vancouver Canucks to time beyond regulation, however fell wanting selecting up two factors and misplaced by a rating of 3-2.
Vancouver struck first on a play that wasn’t initially known as a objective. Teddy Blueger carried the puck behind Florida’s web and wrapped it round Sergei Bobrovsky’s proper put up.
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Bobrovsky stretched out and made the save, however replay confirmed the puck had simply crossed over the objective line earlier than Bob kicked it out of the web.
No worries although, because the Panthers responded simply 11 seconds later.
Jesper Boqvist scored his first as a Panther on an help from Mackie Samoskevich, his first NHL level, and similar to that the sport was tied once more.
An icing name on Florida led to the following objective of the sport.
Quinn Hughes blasted a shot previous Sergei Bobrovsky’s blocker proper off the following faceoff, a play that Florida challenged after the puck went straight off Nils Aman’s glove and to on to Danton Heinen, who then handed it as much as Hughes on the level.
Florida challenged the decision for a missed stoppage however the name on the ice stood, with the NHL ruling “the puck deflected off Nils Aman’s glove in the course of the faceoff and, subsequently, doesn’t represent a hand move.”
A scary second got here shortly after when Sam Reinhart collided with Jake DeBrusk and went down laborious, holding his left arm as he skated off the ice.
Reinhart went to Florida’s locker room for about 10 minutes however returned to the sport and appeared no worse for the damage.
It took a short time, and some huge time saves by Bobrovsky, however the Cats lastly discovered the equalizer.
With Florida on a late interval energy play, Anton Lundell carried the puck off the half boards and wired a wrist shot previous Kevin Lankinen’s blocker and simply contained in the far put up to ship the sport to the ultimate body tied at two.
Each goaltenders got here up with some huge saves in the course of the third interval, however no targets had been scored, so the sport would require greater than 60 minutes.
A pleasant set play by Vancouver on the Panthers blue line despatched in J.T. Miller with room on the suitable aspect, and he scored previous Bob’s blocker to provide the Canucks their first win of the season.
On to Vegas, Saturday in Dawn.
QUICK THOUGHTS
This was Florida’s first time beyond regulation sport of the season.
The Cats scored on their solely energy play try, enhancing their season numbers to 3-for-17.
In addition they went 2-for-2 on the penalty kill and have now killed off 15 of their 17 energy performs in opposition to.
Lundell has now scored targets in three straight video games for the second time in his profession.
Tuesday’s sport was Eetu Luostarinen’s three hundredth within the NHL.
Reinhart is as much as 9 factors in Florida’s first six video games after selecting up an help on Lundell’s energy play objective.
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