BOSTON (AP) — Sam Reinhart scored on an influence play and added a short-handed purpose that gave the Florida Panthers the lead for good within the second interval on Monday and the defending Stanley Cup champions beat the Boston Bruins 4-3.
Anton Lundell additionally scored twice and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 25 photographs for Florida, which has eradicated Boston from the playoffs in every of the final two seasons.
Mason Lohrei and Johnny Beecher every had a purpose and an help for the Bruins, and Mark Kastelic had three assists. Jeremy Swyaman, making his third straight begin after lacking the opener following a contract holdout, made 22 saves in his first lack of the season.
Takeaways
Florida appeared robust, even with out captain Aleksandr Barkov, who’s week to week with an unspecified damage, and ahead Matthew Tkachuk, who missed his second straight recreation due to an sickness.
Giveaways price the Bruins, with Reinhart stealing the puck on the Boston blue line and skating in for a two on one which gave the Panthers a 3-2 lead.
Key second
About three minutes after Reinhart’s second purpose, Lundell scored his second off one other Bruins turnover close to the Boston blue line. Gustav Forsling took the puck away from Boston’s Morgan Geekie and shot it forward to Lundell, who skated in and beat Swayman on the stick aspect to make it 4-2.
Key stat
Reinhart’s first-period energy play purpose got here off the faceoff that adopted Charlie McAvoy’s cross-checking penalty, simply 6 seconds into the person benefit.
Up subsequent
Florida: Go to Columbus on Tuesday evening.
Boston: Go to the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday.
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