SAN JOSE – Sam Reinhart scored in the fourth spherical of the shootout to give the Florida Panthers a 4-3 gain over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night time.
Carter Verhaeghe had a purpose and an help, and Aleksander Barkov and Radko Gudas also scored for Florida. Matthew Tkachuk had 3 helps and Anton Lundell experienced two. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 36 photographs.
“It was one of these evenings when it is the goalie competitiveness you know, specially the extra time and shootout,” Bobrovsky claimed. “I have entertaining in those people online games.”
Erik Karlsson experienced a goal and two helps, and Matt Benning and Timo Meier also scored for the Sharks, who have misplaced 3 straight. James Reimer finished with 41 will save.
Trailing 2- after two durations, San Jose bought on the scoreboard when Meier transformed on a 5-on-3 electrical power perform at 1:04 of the third with his third goal in two online games.
Karlsson tied it with his seventh target and 12th point in a 4-game scoring streak at 6:34 of the third period of time.
“When I am 50 years old I will search back on it and I’ll be joyful about it,” Karlsson stated.
Benning put the Sharks in advance with 8:12 still left with his first target considering the fact that signing up for San Jose, but Verhaeghe tied it 3-3 with 1:22 remaining and Bobrovsky pulled for an additional skater to send it to extra time.
“I feel we slowed our recreation down, primarily the puck provider,” Reinhart explained. “A tiny bit also significantly standing all-around seeing and they swarmed us.”
The Panthers dropped assistant captain Patric Hornqvist at 9:14 of the very first time period right after he was hit up superior by Sharks forward Luke Kunin, who was ejected for the illegal check out to the head key.
“Disappointing, since I genuinely favored the way we crawled back into it,” Sharks coach David Quinn reported. “Any time you get a 5-minute big, that genuinely skews the interval.”
Barkov gave the Panthers a 1- guide on the ensuing electrical power participate in obtaining his next of the time with 6:17 still left in the period of time.
“He’s up and cellular and everything’s great, but I is not going to know until someday tonight,” Panthers mentor Paul Maurice stated about Hornqvist.
Gudas prolonged the Panthers’ direct with 4:10 left in the 2nd with a a person-timer from the point by traffic for his very first.
