Florida Panthers Stop Tampa Bay’s Winning Streak 9-3

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Anthony Duclair scored twice, Jonathan Huberdeau had a extremity and 4 assists, and the Florida Panthers romped to a 9-3 rout of the NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning connected Thursday night.

Florida scored 3 times successful each play against the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions and snapped Tampa Bay’s four-game winning streak.

Frank Vatrano, Eetu Luostarinen, Maxim Mamin, Anton Lundell, Aaron Ekblad and Aleksander Barkov besides scored to assistance the Panthers acceptable a play precocious for goals successful their league-leading 16th location win.

Spencer Knight made 39 saves.

Florida’s squad grounds for goals successful a crippled is 10, against visiting Boston connected Nov. 26, 1997.

Steven Stamkos, Zach Bogosian and Brayden Point scored for Tampa Bay, which mislaid for lone the 2nd clip successful 11 games this month. Maxime Lagace stopped 21 of 27 shots earlier giving mode to Hugo Alnefelt, making his NHL debut, to commencement the 3rd period.

Stamkos scored his 15th extremity astatine 6:19 of the 2nd to chopped Tampa Bay’s shortage to 4-2.

Florida past scored doubly to physique a four-goal cushion aft 2 periods. Mamin poked successful the puck for his 4th extremity astatine 17:26 aft Lagace stopped Carter Verhaeghe connected a breakaway. Lundell added his seventh extremity astatine 19:23.

Point, connected the powerfulness play, Duclair, Ekblad and Barkov (short-handed) each scored successful the 3rd period.

The Panthers went up 4-1 astatine 3:02 of the 2nd erstwhile Luostarinen enactment successful a rebound of Radko Gudas’ wrist changeable from the close point.

Vatrano’s seventh goal, converting his ain rebound from a changeable disconnected the crossbar, made it 3-0 astatine 14:21 of the archetypal period.

Huberdeau’s power-play extremity astatine 11:22 gave Florida a 2-0 edge. It was his 11th extremity of the season.

Duclair took Brendan Montour’s agelong walk from the antiaircraft portion and broke successful unsocial connected Lagace to unfastened the scoring astatine 2:10. It was Duclair’s 11th extremity and No. 100 successful his career.

Bogosian scored his 2nd goal, connected a changeable adjacent the close extremity line, to marque it 3-1 astatine 15:31 of the first.

NOTES: Lightning manager Jon Cooper and halfway Pierre-Edouard Bellemare returned from COVID-19 protocol. … The teams divided the archetypal 2 meetings this season, some astatine Tampa Bay. The Panthers won the archetypal 1 4-1 connected Oct. 19, and the Lightning prevailed 3-2 successful overtime Nov. 13. … The Panthers earned their 15th location triumph by beating the New York Rangers connected Wednesday nighttime successful their 18th location game. Only 3 teams person recorded 15 location wins successful less contests since 1987-88 — Anaheim (17 GP, 2013-14), Washington (17 GP, 2008-09) and San Jose (17 GP, 2008-09), according to the NHL. … Lightning defenseman Darren Raddysh made his NHL debut.

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