Sam Reinhart scored 2 times and grew to become the fourth player in Florida franchise history to achieve 40 goals as the Panthers conquer the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 in a shootout on Thursday night.
Reinhart snapped an eight-sport goal drought with his two-intention exertion, and attained the milestone on his 2nd rating at the 13:05 mark of the 3rd interval that tied the game at 3.
In the shootout, Reinhart unsuccessful to score for Florida, and Montreal’s Jesse Ylonen and Nick Suzuki unsuccessful to transform before the Panthers closed out the acquire with scores by Aleksander Barkov and Anton Lundell.
Barkov also scored in regulation for the Panthers, who became the next crew in the NHL — after the New York Rangers — to strike the 40-win mark.
Anthony Stolarz designed 28 saves for Florida (40-16-4), which is tied with the Boston Bruins (35-12-14) for the most points in the league at 84.
“You really feel it. Particularly when you are are 19, 29, or 39,” Reinhart claimed of his drought. “We have been performing a great deal of superior issues, a good deal of them have occur on the power perform and we have been transferring it close to and finding the open guy, so we’ve been sharing the prosperity just lately.”
Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovsky and Alex Newhook scored in regulation for the Canadiens, and Cole Caufield related in the shootout. Samuel Montembeault built 32 will save.
The Canadiens turned the initially team to rating much more than two ambitions on the Panthers given that Jan. 19, when Minnesota conquer Florida 6-4.
“That Florida workforce is just one of the finest teams in the league,” Montreal mentor Martin St. Louis stated. “There is a good deal to discover with their match, and we’re not as considerably together as they are, but we’re trying to get things from any workforce in the league that does matters far better than us at this stage. But I imagined we matched them rather properly tonight.”
Florida’s 14-sport streak of not making it possible for much more than two plans was tied for the longest this season, and the Panthers went 14–2 in the run.
“You appear at (Matthew Tkachuk), Barkov, Reinhart, they are all out there for a purpose,” Stolarz claimed of his team’s protection. “They engage in properly on both ends of the ice. They know when the time will come to get again, they’re always likely to be back again and they’re also quite very good at putting the puck in the internet, so it is really always great owning them out there.”
Slafkovsky snapped a four-match issue drought with his objective.
Stolarz and Montreal defenseman Kaiden Guhle both equally performed in their 100th profession video game.
