Florida Panthers Find Ways To Rally Again, Top Blues 4-3 In Shootout

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MIAMI (AP) – Sam Reinhart and Anton Lundell scored successful the shootout, and the Florida Panthers continued their drawstring of comebacks by rallying from 3 one-goal deficits to bushed the St. Louis Blues 4-3 connected Saturday.

Maxim Mamin scored 2 goals and Reinhart added a extremity for Florida. Lucas Carlsson and Anton Lundell each had 2 assists and Sergei Bobrovsky made 22 saves for the Panthers — positive stopped Ryan O’Reilly to extremity the shootout.

Ville Husso made a career-best 48 saves for the Blues, who got goals from Brandon Saad, Logan Brown and Jake Walman. O’Reilly had 2 assists for St. Louis.

The Blues played the last 1:57 of overtime connected the punishment kill, and astir of that with defenseman Robert Bortuzzo playing without a stick. All helium had was arms and legs to get successful passing lanes, and adjacent with Florida playing 4-on-3 — and 4 sticks vs. 2 — the Blues recovered a mode to spell to a shootout.

But Bobrovsky came up with the prevention astatine the extremity to seal the win, and Florida improved to 14-1-0 astatine home.

Husso was playing successful back-to-back games for the archetypal clip this play since St. Louis goalie Jordan Binnington entered the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol aft investigating affirmative for the coronavirus.

Florida pulled Bobrovsky with 2:36 left, down by one.

Bobrovsky was backmost with 2:34 left, with the crippled tied.

It was that casual and that quick: Lundell won a faceoff, tapping the puck backmost to Mamin, who ripped a one-timer past Husso to necktie the crippled astatine 3-3.

And with that, the fable of the Comeback ‘Cats continued.

After getting down 4-1 to Washington connected Tuesday and 3-0 to Buffalo connected Thursday — past uncovering ways to triumph some games — the Panthers recovered themselves successful acquainted territory erstwhile St. Louis opened the scoring connected Brown’s 2nd extremity of the play astatine 5:24 of the opening period.

Such was the mode the archetypal 2 periods went: St. Louis would score, Florida would answer. Mamin tied it astatine 1-1 for the Panthers precisely 100 seconds aft Brown’s goal. Walman enactment the Blues backmost connected apical 6:36 into the second, and Reinhart tapped successful a rebound astatine 18:00 of that play to knot things up again.

Saad made it 3-2 St. Louis astatine 4:29 of the third, redirecting a walk from O’Reilly conscionable nether Bobrovsky’s close leg. And conscionable arsenic they did erstwhile facing 1-0 and 2-1 deficits, the Panthers tied the crippled yet again.

BEEN A MINUTE

St. Louis’ crippled astatine Florida during the 2019-20 play was canceled due to the fact that of the pandemic, and the mode the docket was acceptable up past play meant teams were lone playing teams wrong their division. That meant Saturday’s crippled was the Blues’ archetypal astatine Sunrise since Feb. 5, 2019. Of the 38 players who took portion successful that 2019 game, lone 11 — 7 Blues and 4 Panthers — were connected the crystal Saturday.

NOTES: Husso’s erstwhile vocation champion for saves was 34. … This is the lone home-and-home bid for Florida this season. It’s the 2nd of 5 for St. Louis. … Florida had fixed up precisely 4 goals successful each of its past 4 games, tying the longest specified streak successful the NHL this season. … Reinhart has goals successful 3 consecutive games. It’s the archetypal clip he’s had a three-game streak arsenic a Panther; helium had 3 of astatine slightest 3 games with Buffalo. … The Panthers aren’t location again until Dec. 14. … St. Louis plays its adjacent 4 games astatine home.

UP NEXT

The teams play again successful St. Louis connected Tuesday.

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