ST. LOUIS (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk scored his fifth job hat trick to assist the Florida Panthers defeat the St. Louis Blues 5-1 on Tuesday evening for their eighth straight victory.
Sam Reinhart and Kevin Stenlund also scored for the Panthers, who have 36 objectives through their successful streak. Anthony Stolarz produced 29 saves.
“I don’t believe any of it was quick for us,” Florida coach Paul Maurice said. “We had no legs, so we had to make a entire bunch of psychological changes as the match went. Component of it was just what it is likely to look like. I’m actually satisfied with this win as a lot as any gain we have experienced on this excursion, for positive.”
Brayden Schenn scored and Joel Hofer manufactured 26 will save for St. Louis, which had received two in a row.
“I truly really feel like we deserved better offensively,” Schenn claimed. “We had some appears, the ability engage in had some looks and the goalie created some saves. But then in expressing that, 3rd period of time, I do not assume we ended up assertive enough and hungry enough to perform in their conclude a lot more and it just resulted in them investing time on our have conclusion and obtaining deflections and aims and just before we know it, the game’s out of get to.”
Tkachuk scored into an vacant net for his 11th goal of the season with 57 seconds remaining to finish his hat trick. Tkachuk’s father, Keith, performed for the Blues from 2001-10.
“It felt incredible,” Matthew Tkachuk explained. “I scored a great deal of aims in this rink when I was more youthful, (but) I have not scored significantly at the NHL degree, so I’m glad I was saving them up for tonight.”
Tkachuk scored on 1 knee to give Florida a 3-1 lead 2:18 into the third time period and obtained his second goal of the match 3:39 later to make it 4-1. He has 6 plans in the Panthers’ previous four video games right after scoring only five in the very first 36 game titles of the year.
“He’s been on a operate for a though,” Maurice explained. “I feel, probably the past 3 months, you have seen the recreation change where by, I do not want to say pucks are not heading in, he’s just acquiring a various glimpse. It’s distinctive all around the web for him. He never altered his sport more than that course of time. He’s committed to what the staff demands to do to win. That is why I was hardly ever seriously concerned about it.”
Reinhart scored his group-major 29th goal on a power enjoy 1:11 into the next period of time to give Florida a 2-1 advantage.
It was Reinhart’s 14th electricity-perform goal of the period. St. Louis unsuccessful to transform on its 3 energy plays and has scored on just 12 of 112 this season.
“We have to rating,” interim mentor Drew Bannister stated. “We have to have a mindset when we phase on the ice that we’re on the lookout to score goals. The chances have been there. The prospects have been there, but we aren’t ending on individuals odds, and we have to finish.”
Stenlund tied it 1-all when he scored his eighth objective on a feed from Jonah Gadjovich with 4:04 remaining in the very first interval.
Schenn got his ninth goal when he lifted Jake Neighbours’ rebound about Stolarz 3:24 into the very first. Schenn hadn’t scored in 16 video games since netting a pair of ambitions towards Buffalo on Nov. 30.
UP Upcoming
Panthers: Host the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday evening to open a 5-sport homestand.
Blues: Host the New York Rangers on Thursday night.
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