MONTREAL (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk experienced his fifth vocation hat trick and a single guide to direct the Florida Panthers to a 5-2 victory above the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night time.
With his second goal, Tkachuk grew to become the fourth player in NHL historical past to have 100 or a lot more points in consecutive seasons right after altering teams in the offseason. He joined Wayne Gretzky (1987-88, 1988-89), Jimmy Carson (1987-88, 1988-89) and Mike Rogers (1980-81, 1981-82) in obtaining the feat.
Anton Lundell extra two objectives and one guide and Alex Lyon created 18 will save whilst encouraging the Panthers to its next get in a row and a time collection sweep of Montreal.
Sean Farrell scored his initially job purpose and Rafael Harvey-Pinard had a goal for the Canadiens, who dropped their 2nd in a row. Sam Montembeault made 25 saves.
Farrell opened the scoring 1:23 into the initially period of time when the rookie took a shot from together the boards that was mishandled by Lyon and went in.
Lundell tied it at 4:09 with his 11th of the season immediately after Montembeault gave up a rebound off a shot by Tkachuk.
Tkachuk finished off a tic-tac-toe sequence with Brandon Montour and Sam Reinhart to give the Panthers a 2-1 edge 3:59 into the next on the ability enjoy.
Just below two minutes later, Tkachuk scored his next, beating Montembeault with a wrist shot from the proper faceoff circle.
Tkachuk concluded his hat trick with 20 seconds remaining with an vacant-web purpose.
NOTES: The Canadiens introduced C Kirby Dach will overlook at the very least 1 week with an upper-overall body personal injury. … D David Savard (reduced human body) is working day to day. Chris Wideman replaced him in the lineup.
UP Subsequent
Panthers: Head to Columbus to get on the Blue Jackets on Saturday.
Canadiens: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday.
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