Ryan Lomberg scored the recreation-winning aim with 6:52 to go, Matthew Tkachuk experienced a few details and the Florida Panthers defeated the Washington Capitals 4-2 on Thursday night time.
The intention was Lomberg’s 3rd of the year and his initially considering that Nov. 14, snapping a 32-match drought with a brief shot from the slot off of a feed from Dmitry Kulikov. It gave the Panthers their fifth earn in six online games and their to start with since moving into the All-Star split.
Tkachuk, Sam Reinhart and Eetu Luostarinen also scored for the Panthers. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 21 pictures, and Florida coach Paul Maurice got the 849th earn of his frequent-year job — tying Ken Hitchcock for fifth-most in NHL historical past.
Alex Ovechkin obtained the 833rd goal of his profession and Anthony Mantha also scored for Washington. Darcy Kuemper created 37 saves.
Ovechkin has targets in a few straight game titles because ending an eight-sport drought on Jan. 27.
Tkachuk’s target snapped a drought spanning 152:02 of regulation time without having an even-power target for the Panthers. Jonah Gadjovich scored their preceding purpose at 5-on-5 on Jan. 27 — 2:27 into their 6-2 earn about the Arizona Coyotes.
Evan Rodrigues appeared to rating a objective 6:57 into the next interval that would have put Florida up 2-1, but it was taken off the board after an offside obstacle. Panthers defenseman Brandon Montour tried to preserve a bouncing puck in the offensive zone with his skate but it just crossed the blue line, negating the intention.
Washington took the lead later on in the period of time just before Reinhart tied it back again up with his league-foremost 21st energy-engage in target. He has 8 more than the participant with the subsequent most, Colorado Avalanche ahead Valeri Nichushkin.
Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov prolonged his intention drought to 18 game titles, final scoring on Dec. 16 in opposition to the Edmonton Oilers.
UP Next
Capitals: Take a look at Boston on Saturday afternoon.
Panthers: Host Colorado on Saturday night time.
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