Panthers Steamroll Bruins to Even Second-Round Series – Hockey Writers – NHL News
The Florida Panthers avenged their Game 1 loss by defeating the Boston Bruins 6-1 on Wednesday (May 6) to even their second-round playoff series at one game apiece. The Panthers looked to atone for their poor performance in Game 1 with a big performance and recorded 76 hits, the most of any team in the playoffs thus far.
Boston opened the scoring in the first half on Charlie Coyle's first goal of the playoffs.
However, the Panthers responded with second period goals by Steven Lorentz, Aleksandar Barkov, and Gustav Forsling. When Forsling scored two seconds into the second half to give Florida a 3-1 halftime lead, it marked the second most recent playoff tally by a Panthers player, one second shy of the record set by Tomas Fleischmann. in the third period of Game 2 of the 2012 Conference Quarterfinals (19:59).
After Eetu Luostarinen scored early in the third period, Barkov added another to give the Panthers a 5-1 lead.
Barkov recorded his 12th multi-point playoff game to tie Carter Verhaeghe for the most in Panthers history.
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Brandon Montour added a shorthanded goal in the third period to extend the Panthers' lead to 6-1. He recorded his seventh multi-point game in the Stanley Cup Playoffs as a member of the Panthers ans sits fourth on the season scoring list behind teammates Verhaeghe (12), Barkov (12), and Matthew Tkachuk (11).
The Panthers have scored six consecutive goals in a playoff game for the first time in franchise history.
They said
“We know him (Jeremy Swayman) is a good goalkeeper. We want to get in front of him, but at the same time we have (Andrei) Vasilevskiy in the last round. He is probably one of the best goalkeepers. They are both up there. We just need to go forward and make it difficult for him.” – Anton Lundell
The Panthers have scored 27 goals so far this postseason, which is second among all teams behind the Colorado Avalanche (32).
The two teams will head to Boston for Game 3 of the series on Thursday, May 10.
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