MONTREAL (AP) — Sergei Bobrovsky designed 21 will save for his 11th victory of the year and the Florida Panthers defeat the Montreal Canadiens 5-1 on Thursday night time.
Aleksander Barkov, Evan Rodrigues and Carter Verhaeghe every experienced a aim and an support and Sam Bennett and Oliver Ekman-Larsson also scored. The Panthers improved to 14-7-2, earning five out of six factors in a 3-recreation Canadian swing.
“We played a intelligent activity through two intervals,” Panthers mentor Paul Maurice stated. “And then we started taking pictures the puck. That was possibly the variance.”
Johnathan Kovacevic scored for Montreal, coming off a 4-2 victory in Columbus on Wednesday night. The Canadiens have lost 4 straight at property.
Cayden Primeau stopped 24 pictures in his fifth appearance this period. He was crushed to the glove facet on all 5 objectives.
“I consider I did a excellent job all year of not 2nd-guessing myself, but they bought two in the identical place and it performed in my head a tiny little bit,” Primeau stated. “When you get started 2nd-guessing yourself, items can go south rather swift.”
Montreal examined Florida’s penalty destroy early in the initial interval with a pair electricity-enjoy prospects, but could not split by way of,
Barkov opened the scoring at 7:07 of the 2nd interval, He intercepted a move by Gustav Lindstrom in the defensive zone, skating down the ice and firing a shot past Primeau’s glove.
The Panthers then poured it on in the third period.
Off the opening draw, Bennett picked up a pass alongside the boards and beat Primeau thoroughly clean to make it 2- 8 seconds into the period.
Canadiens ahead Alex Newhook crashed into the side of the web 29 seconds later on and awkwardly twisted his leg for a 2nd time in the sport. He necessary assist obtaining off the ice and did not return.
Florida then got again to scoring on Rodrigues’ goal at 3:12. Verhaeghe produced it 4- at 5:49 with a wrist shot on the ability engage in.
“I assume we went blocker a few occasions, it didn’t work, so we tried out the glove,” Verhaeghe stated. “It labored.”
Kovacevic broke Bobrovsky’s shutout bid at 9:30 with a wrist shot that bounced off the netminder’s glove and into the back of the web for his fourth of the year.
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