Boston Beats Panthers, Stops Season-Opening Win Streak At 8

BOSTON (AP) — Charlie Coyle had the lone people successful the shootout and the Boston Bruins bushed Florida 3-2 Saturday night, ending the Panthers’ season-opening winning streak astatine 8 games.

The Panthers fell 2 wins abbreviated of the NHL grounds for consecutive victories to commencement a season, acceptable by Toronto successful 1993-94 and matched by Buffalo successful 2006-07.

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Florida was playing the 2nd of a back-to-back aft beating Detroit successful OT connected Friday night.

It was Florida’s 2nd crippled since manager Joel Quenneville resigned amid a enactment ungraded erstwhile helium was with the Chicago Blackhawks successful 2010.

Quenneville, the second-winningest manager successful NHL history, resigned Thursday, 2 days aft being among those implicated for not responding swiftly to allegations by erstwhile Chicago subordinate Kyle Beach of being sexually assaulted by then-Blackhawks adjunct Brad Aldrich during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs.

Andrew Brunette, an adjunct nether Quenneville, is the interim coach.

“We played hard,” Brunette said. “Heck of an effort by the guys successful a back-to-back game, successful a pugnacious spot to play.”

Coyle besides scored successful regulation, and Linus Ullmark stopped 33 shots, and 3 tries successful the shootout.

Coyle chopped astir goalie Spencer Knight earlier tucking successful a changeable successful the shootout.

“It’s hard to speech astir it,” Coyle said of his winner. “Sometimes you person thing planned and sometimes you don’t. I’m conscionable gladsome it went in.”

Aleksander Barkov pushed Florida successful beforehand with a power-play extremity 7:49 into 3rd period, but Charlie McAvoy chopped successful from the constituent and slipped a wrist changeable successful from the bottommost of the close ellipse for a power-play score, tying it with 6:25 near successful regulation.

“Tonight was an opportunity,” McAvoy said of his goal. “On that play, I was capable to get moving down the wall.”

Anthony Duclair besides scored for the Panthers, his sixth of the season, and Knight made 31 saves successful his 3rd start.

Knight — playing backmost connected acquainted crystal successful Boston, the metropolis wherever helium played his assemblage hockey — besides saw his idiosyncratic unbeaten streak end. It was the archetypal clip successful his 7 vocation regular-season appearances that helium didn’t get the win, meaning his triumph streak ended 2 shy of matching the NHL grounds for consecutive goalie wins to commencement a career.

“In was amusive to play successful an ambiance similar that,” said Knight, who grew up watching the Bruins successful Darien, Connecticut. “Like seven, 8 months ago, I was watching them connected TV successful my dorm room. I’ve been coming present since I was six years old.”

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Coyle bushed Knight with a rising wrist changeable from the near ellipse that slipped nether the crossbar connected the acold side, making it 1-0 with 42 seconds near successful the first.

Duclair shifted astir defenseman Derek Forbort earlier slipping a wrister by Ullmark from the slot 47 seconds onto the second.

Knight dropped and made a pad halt connected Tomas Nosek’s cleanable breakaway midway into the second.

Florida’s eight-game winning streak to commencement the play tied the fourth-longest successful NHL history. The decision besides ended Florida’s 14-game regular play winning streak dating to past spring, a tally that ended tied for sixth-best successful league past and 3 shy of Pittsburgh’s grounds of 17 successful a enactment from March 9-April 10, 1993.

REMEMBERING JIMMY HAYES

The Bruins and Panthers honored erstwhile subordinate Jimmy Hayes by wearing peculiar warmup jerseys with “Haysey” and “Broadway,” his 2 nicknames.

The 31-year-old Hayes, a Boston native, died abruptly connected Aug. 23. He played for some organizations. There was besides a infinitesimal of soundlessness followed by a video tribute, with highlights from his days with some teams. The fans followed with a large ovation.

RINGING IRON

Boston’s Brad Marchard deed a station successful the game’s opening minute, and teammate Taylor Hall’s backhander nailed the crossbar aboriginal successful the third.

“It seems similar early-on (in the season) we’ve deed a batch of posts,” Boston manager Bruce Cassidy said.

NOTES: It was Boston’s 3rd consecutive crippled against an unbeaten team. They mislaid to the Panthers successful Florida connected Wednesday and to Carolina connected the roadworthy Thursday. … Bruins F Craig Smith returned aft missing the erstwhile 3 games with an unspecified injury. He got moved from his accustomed spot connected the 2nd enactment to the archetypal midway into the game. … Knight played 2 seasons astatine Boston College, earning the 2020-21 Hockey East Goaltender and Player of the Year.

UP NEXT

Panthers: Host the Capitals connected Thursday night.

Bruins: Host the Red Wings connected Thursday night.

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