Panthers Reach 8-0 Record, Win First Game Without Quenneville

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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Aleksander Barkov scored successful overtime and the Florida Panthers — playing a time aft manager Joe Quenneville resigned amid a enactment ungraded — bushed Detroit 3-2 connected Friday to tally their season-opening winning streak to eight.

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, directed the Panthers arsenic interim coach.

Barkov scored twice, Eetu Luostarinen had a extremity and Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 saves to assistance the Panthers determination wrong 2 of the NHL grounds for consecutive victories to commencement a play acceptable by Toronto successful 1993-94 and matched by Buffalo successful 2006-07.

Sam Gagner and Pius Suter scored for Detroit, with Suter tying it with 3:41 near successful regularisation with his archetypal extremity of the season.

Luostarinen and Barkov gave Florida a 2-0 pb successful the archetypal period.

Luostarinen redirected a changeable done goalie Alex Nedeljkovic’s legs astatine 8:43, and Barkov banged the puck nether Nedeljkovic’s close pad with 1:11 to go.

Gagner pulled Detroit wrong 1 connected a redirection astatine 2:15 of the 2nd period.

The Red Wings dropped to 4-3-1.

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