Anthony Stolarz stopped 45 shots for his seventh profession shutout and the Florida Panthers turned the 11th NHL staff to get 10 consecutive street games, beating the Buffalo Sabres 4- on Thursday night time.
Carter Verhaeghe opened the scoring midway by way of the initially period of time and extra an vacant-netter. Anton Lundell scored by tipping in Matthew Tkachuk’s position shot on a delayed penalty with 2:44 still left in the second interval. Ryan Lomberg followed Verhaeghe’s empty-netter with a target with 11 seconds remaining.
Florida extended its franchise-history street successful with the operate that is tied for the sixth-longest among NHL teams, and two brief of matching the document held by Detroit (2005-06) and Minnesota (2014-15).
The Panthers gained on consecutive evenings, pursuing a 5-2 victory at Pittsburgh, and their road streak is the league’s second-longest this season just after Los Angeles’ 11-recreation run from Oct. 17 to Dec. 7.
Florida enhanced its highway document to 19-7-2, and has not dropped away from house considering the fact that dropping a 3-1 determination at Calgary on Dec. 18. Florida’s truly been scorching each home and absent, going 17-3-2 in its earlier 22 all round.
Buffalo reverted to its inconsistencies by dropping to 9-8 in its past 17, and failing to make off a 7- victory in excess of the Kings on Tuesday night time. Eric Comrie stopped 27 pictures in getting rid of his sixth consecutive start out and dropping to 1-6 this time.
Comrie received his first start in much more than two months following the staff announced a couple several hours in advance of faceoff that Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen was shown as day to day since of a decrease-system personal injury.
Stolarz was sharp in posting his first shutout of the time, and the next of his occupation in opposition to Buffalo. His finest stops came in kicking out his remaining pad to twice halt Kyle Okposo’s try to jam in a rebound throughout a electrical power engage in 5 minutes into the third time period.
The Sabres also unsuccessful to finish.
Rookie Zach Benson was established up to the appropriate of the net and missed the open side by taking pictures broad 7:30 into the very first period. Casey Mittelstadt was set up at the remaining of the web and was not able to lift the puck over Stolarz’s outstretched pads. And Dylan Cozens missed scoring into an open up appropriate facet by deflecting the puck back into Stolarz, who then fell on the puck.
The Sabres failed to get consecutive property online games for just the 2nd time this time.
Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov established up the opening target by forcing Sabres rookie defenseman Ryan Johnson to cough up the puck in the ideal corner. Barkov then fed Verhaeghe, who was remaining alone in front.
Lundell’s intention arrived seconds immediately after a delayed penalty was named in opposition to Buffalo’s Tage Thompson.
UP Subsequent
Panthers: At Tampa Bay on Saturday night.
Sabres: At Minnesota on Saturday night time.
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