Comeback Cats earn 4-3 OT win over visiting Golden Knights

No Barkov? No Tkachuk? Not sufficient wholesome gamers on the roster to decorate 20 gamers?

No drawback.

The Florida Panthers performed with simply 19 gamers on their lively roster after they hosted the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday.

Florida battled again from three deficits, pushing the sport to additional time earlier than Gus Forsling netted the profitable objective with simply 17 seconds left in additional time.

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Regardless of taking part in shorthanded, the Cats acquired off to a fast begin on Vegas, because the Golden Knights didn’t register their first shot on objective till simply previous the 10-minute mark of the primary interval.

Late within the interval, Vegas put a flurry of photographs on Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, however he made a number of glowing saves in brief order, together with a fast proper pad rebound cease on Alexander Holtz.

They’d get one previous Bob with simply 33.3 left within the opening interval off a nasty turnover by Anton Lundell. He picked up the puck alongside the half boards, spun round and made a blind move to the center of Florida’s zone.

The puck was picked up by Nicolas Roy and he fed Tanner Pearson who wired a shot over Bobrovky’s blocker to present Vegas a 1-0 lead that they took into the primary intermission.

It took Florida all of 69 seconds to the issues up as soon as the second interval started.

Lundell had the puck alongside the half boards in Vegas’ zone and despatched the puck throughout the zone, the place Sam Reinhart performed the bounce off the boards and one-timed the puck from a pointy angle previous a shocked Ilya Samsonov.

Vegas reclaimed the lead with 5:44 left within the interval on a fast shot from the boards that Bobrovsky didn’t appear to select up till the final second.

The puck deflected off Keegan Kolesar on its method by Bobrovsky’s legs, his first objective of the season for the guests.

A slashing name on Roy on the 18:14 mark gave the Cats a late interval energy play, and so they cashed in with 39.1 seconds to go due to an ideal move from Carter Verhaeghe to a steaking Sam Bennett on the again door.

Samsonov got here up with a number of huge saves in the course of the first half of the third interval to maintain the sport knotted at two. Vegas’ first shot of the interval got here on the 7:30 mark, and it was a Brett Howden objective to present the Golden Knights a 3-2 lead.

An offensive zone draw for the Panthers led to the game-tying objective about 5 minutes later.

Reinhart gained the best facet draw and went to the online, tapping a missed shot throughout the crease to Eetu Luostarinen, who popped the puck into the yawning cage.

A particularly entertaining additional time session appeared destined to finish and not using a objective being scored, however a late rush by Reinhart and Bennett ended with the puck on Gus Forsling’s stick and a wide-open web in entrance of him.

Sport, Panthers.

On to the Wild.

QUICK THOUGHTS

Florida is now 3-0-1 over their previous 4 video games, all with out Barkov and Tkachuk

Reinhart is now as much as 5 objectives and 12 factors in Florida’s first seven video games of the season.

Lundell has logged multi-point outings in three of his previous 4 video games, racking up 4 objectives and 7 factors in the course of the run.

Florida has scored energy play objectives in consecutive video games for the primary time this season.

Verhaeghe put up a season-high six photographs on 18 shot makes an attempt.

Bennett now has two energy play objectives this season.

The Panthers killed off Vegas’ solely energy play, extending their consecutive penalties killed streak to 14 in a row. They’ve killed 17-of-19 on the season.

Luostarinen has now scored twice over his previous three video games.

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