Sunrise, Fla. (AP) — Carter Verhaeghe scored twice in the last minutes and the Florida Panthers defeat the Washington Capitals 5-2 on Tuesday night time.
Verhaeghe, who experienced 6 objectives and 12 factors in Florida’s 6-recreation playoff series gain above Washington last spring, scored on a unfastened puck to give the Panthers a two-purpose guide with 3 minutes remaining prior to scoring into an empty web with 1:24 left.
“They keep telling me I am a shooter, so I just try out to shoot the puck and I have two good men up coming to me,” mentioned Verhaeghe, who potential customers Florida with 10 plans. “The line has been very good and the puck is going in.”
Florida also received plans from Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart and Nick Cousins, although Sergei Bobrovsky designed 41 will save for his very first gain given that Nov. 3.
Dylan Strome and John Carlson scored for Washington.
Florida enhanced to 5-1-1 at house and is on a 16-2-1 frequent-year operate in Dawn relationship to final period.
Bobrovsky, earning his initial start due to the fact Nov. 5 at Los Angeles, only confronted 9 shots in the opening period of time prior to the Capitals started out to heat up.
Barkov gave the Panthers the preliminary lead, blasting a shot past Darcy Kuemper (38 will save) from the higher slot. It was Barkov’s fourth objective of the season and initial not on a electricity play.
Reinhart obtained a electric power-perform objective for the Panthers — their eighth in the previous nine online games — by batting a shot by Aaron Ekblad out of the air.
Matthew Tkachuk recorded his 400th profession issue with the secondary help on the objective.
Keeping a 2-1 direct going into the third, Cousins gave Florida some respiratory area by snaring a move from Gustav Forsling and driving all around Kuemper, scoring as he shed his footing at 7:02 of the period.
Carlson introduced the Capitals inside a purpose by driving involving two defenders and knocking in a shot from Erik Gustafsson previous Bobrovsky.
“We had a great commence and then identified ourselves out of rhythm,’’ mentioned Florida coach Paul Maurice, whose team went 5-for-5 towards the Washington energy play. “Penalty killing was the defining piece to our match and our electric power play went 1-for-1 and we necessary it.”
Washington went -2 on this trip to Florida, acquiring outscored 10-3 by the Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning.
“Our next was better than the first and our energy perform had a lot of odds but could not get one particular via,” Washington coach Peter Laviolette stated. “We did good items defensively but there ended up breakdowns when we could have and ought to have done some thing. … I considered we performed tough in the past 40 minutes and pushed challenging to get that get but we couldn’t seem to get ahead of the rating, get in which we needed to go.”
NOTES: Maurice coached his 1,700th NHL normal-season sport, which ranks fourth all-time. Maurice, 55, coached in his very first game on Nov. 7, 1995 with the Hartford Whalers. He has coached the Whalers/Hurricanes (two times), Maple Leafs, Jets and Panthers. He passed Al Arbour for sixth all-time in victories with No. 783 very last Wednesday against Carolina. … Laviolette returned to the Washington bench following a two-video game absence following screening favourable for COVID-19. Assistant Kevin McCarthy coached the workforce in its two games from Tampa Bay. … Forwards Connor McMichael and Nicolas Aube-Kubel as effectively as defenseman Alexander Alexeyev ended up wholesome scratches for the Capitals.
UP Next
Capitals: Take a look at St. Louis on Thursday evening.
Panthers: Host Dallas on Thursday evening.
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