Sam Reinhart had two ambitions, Sergei Bobrovsky created 27 will save, and the Florida Panthers defeat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Wednesday night.
Panthers coach Paul Maurice joined Scotty Bowman (2,141) and Barry Trotz (1,812) as the only NHL coaches to have coached 1,800 game titles. He is sixth in wins with 837.
Aaron Ekblad also scored for the Panthers, and Aleksander Barkov experienced 3 assists.
Nikita Kucherov scored his 300th objective and Michael Eyssimont had the other Lightning goal. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 27 shots.
The Panthers had been the Prince of Wales Trophy winners very last yr as the top group in the Eastern Conference after Tampa Bay won it the a few previous a few years.
Reinhart produced it 2- early in the next interval off a good back-hand move by Evan Rodrigues.
Just after Kucherov scored 29 seconds into the third, Reinhart got a limited-handed intention to set Florida up 3-1 at 3:11. Tampa Bay acquired back again inside a single 20 seconds later on Eyssimont’s power-play aim.
Kucherov, the NHL details chief, skipped many initially-interval shifts immediately after getting a adhere to the facial area.
Ekblad had his initial goal this period in the initial period of time.
Shortly after Ekblad’s purpose, Bobrovsky made 4 sturdy saves on Tampa Bay’s NHL house-leading energy perform. Bobrovsky also manufactured a lunging glove save on Brayden Stage all through a breakaway midway by the third.
Vasilevskiy held it a one particular-target match with a lunging pad preserve on Carter Verhaeghe’s ability-enjoy rebound with 4 minutes left.
Lightning defenseman Mikhail Sergachev took aspect in the morning skate but skipped his third straight activity right after using a shot off the again of his still left foot on Dec. 19.
UP Subsequent
Panthers: Host the New York Rangers on Friday night.
Lightning: Keep on a three-game homestand Saturday night versus the Rangers.
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