Panthers Win 4th Consecutive Game, Roll Past Flames 6-2

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The NHL play isn’t adjacent fractional over, yet Calgary manager Darryl Sutter has seen capable to connection large praise to the Florida Panthers.

“That’s a squad that’s built for playoff hockey,” Sutter said.

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Few would astir apt reason these days.

The Panthers are rolling again, and Sutter’s Flames were connected the receiving extremity connected Tuesday night. Patric Hornqvist scored twice, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped a season-high 47 shots and the Panthers pushed their winning streak to 4 games by topping the Flames 6-2.

“That’s a antithetic level of team,” Sutter said aft it was implicit and Florida scored the last 5 goals of the contest. “We’re not determination yet.”

Joe Thornton got a history-making go-ahead extremity precocious successful the archetypal play for Florida, which improved to 18-3-0 connected location ice. Anthony Duclair, Ryan Lomberg and Lucas Carlsson besides scored for Florida, and Brandon Montour had the 2nd three-assist crippled of his career.

“It’s inactive aboriginal successful the season,” Panthers interim manager Andrew Brunette said. “There’s a agelong mode to go. But anybody that turns connected a hockey crippled and watches the Florida Panthers play close present is going to beryllium entertained. … When we get question aft question and get everybody rolling, we’re a beauteous unsafe hockey team.”

Johnny Gaudreau got his 14th extremity of the play for Calgary, and Blake Coleman besides scored for the Flames, who led 2-1 aboriginal earlier the Panthers — present with 24 goals successful their past 4 games — got rolling.

Carter Verhaeghe had 2 assists for Florida, which is present 19-0-0 erstwhile scoring astatine slightest 4 goals this season.

Jacob Markstrom stopped 39 shots for Calgary.

“You’re not going to triumph galore games erstwhile you’re giving up six,” Calgary guardant Matthew Thachuk said. “We near Marky retired to adust connected beauteous overmuch each of them.”

And for the 42-year-old Thornton, a deflection — a power-play extremity of a changeable by Montour — precocious successful the archetypal play for a 3-2 Florida pb lone added to his resume. His archetypal extremity came connected Dec. 3, 1997, and helium has present scored successful each calendar twelvemonth since, 26 consecutive years and counting.

It was 1 of 2 power-play goals connected the nighttime for Florida.

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“You springiness up that galore goals, you’re not going to win,” Sutter said. “We had immoderate defensemen that weren’t into the defending oregon checking portion of the crippled and it outgo america the hockey game.”

Bobrovsky’s erstwhile precocious this play for saves was 43. It was the 4th clip successful his vocation that helium stopped astatine slightest 47 shots — and ended the crippled stopping the past 41 shots that helium saw.

“Bob’s great,” Lomberg said. “He played however helium can. We’ve got each the assurance successful the satellite successful Bob and successful our goaltending. It’s nary astonishment to america successful that country erstwhile helium makes large saves and does it clip and clip again. It’s nary surprise. We spot it each time from him.”

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Calgary came into the crippled with a 9-2-2-2 grounds all-time erstwhile visiting Florida’s FLA Live Arena, the champion people of immoderate NHL squad erstwhile playing astatine the Panthers’ existent location (excluding Seattle, which is 1-0-0 aft winning astatine Sunrise earlier this play successful its debut travel there).

That was a constituent percent of .733. It’s nary longer the champion by a visitant to Florida’s rink.

Edmonton — 10-4-1-0, with a constituent percent .of 700 successful its 15 trips to Sunrise — present has the champion grounds of immoderate hostile successful the Panthers’ building.

NOTES: It was Markstrom’s archetypal crippled connected Florida’s crystal since Feb. 6, 2018, for Vancouver. He played successful 20 games betwixt 2011 and 2013 astatine FLA Live Arena, erstwhile helium was with the Panthers. … Duclair has 4 goals successful his past 4 games. … Montour besides had 3 assists connected Dec. 12, 2018, for Anaheim against Dallas.

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