Sunrise, Fla. (AP) — Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Reinhart scored electric power-engage in targets 1:59 apart in the third period of time, and the Florida Panthers went into their Christmas split by topping the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Saturday in a rematch of last season’s Stanley Cup Ultimate.
Sam Bennett and Gustav Forsling also scored for Florida, and Matthew Tkachuk, Aleksander Barkov and Brandon Montour just about every finished with two helps. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 photographs.
Mark Stone and Pavel Dorofeyev scored for Vegas, which topped Florida in 5 game titles very last spring for the title. The Golden Knights matched a time-worst by dropping their third straight and are just 10-9-4 adhering to an 11–1 start out to their title defense.
Jiri Patera stopped 38 photographs for Vegas.
The Panthers came out flying, getting 15 of the game’s 1st 16 pictures. Include in people shot makes an attempt that skipped the internet or were blocked in the to start with 15 minutes of participate in, and Florida experienced 29 of the game’s initially 30 attempts to get a puck on objective.
And there had been plainly reminiscences of what happened final June, particularly the hit from Vegas’ Keegan Kolesar that still left Tkachuk with a fractured sternum. Kolesar fought Florida’s Ryan Lomberg midway by means of the initial period Saturday the fight lasted exactly 1 punch, with Lomberg landing the 1st and only blow just before Kolesar strike the ice.
But Patera stoned Florida time and once more inspite of the flurry of pucks headed his way, and then Stone opened the scoring early in the next.
Bennett tied it for Florida and Forsling scored to put the Panthers on best, in advance of Dorofeyev seemed to give Vegas a significant shot of momentum by tying the sport with 22.3 seconds still left in the 2nd period. He stayed locked in on a pass into the slot by Ben Hutton that strike the adhere of Panthers defenseman Dmitry Kulikov, then slid the deflected puck into the open side of the net.
Verhaeghe’s purpose from the high slot just 17 seconds into a energy play put Florida on major for fantastic, and Reinhart presented the insurance policies tally about 2 minutes afterwards — with Tkachuk supporting by completely screening Patera on the play.
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