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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Aleksander Barkov scored two goals and two assists, Sam Reinhart added 4 assists and the Florida Panthers beat the Boston Bruins 6-1 on Wednesday night to even the second-round series at one game apiece.
Brandon Montour scored a goal and two assists, and Steven Lorentz, Gustav Forsling and Eetu Luostarinen also scored. The Panthers chased Bruins starter Jeremy Swayman for 4 straight goals early within the third period after which added two more against Linus Ullmark.
Sergei Bobrovsky finished the sport with 15 saves for the Panthers. The five-goal margin was Florida's largest margin in a playoff game, tying the mark set April 29 in one other 6-1 win over Tampa Bay.
Charlie Coyle scored the goal for the Bruins, who lost to Florida for the primary time in six meetings this season. The series moves to Boston for Game 3 on Friday night and Game 4 on Sunday night.
And now it's a streak – 136 penalty minutes handed out within the third period after multiple altercations created a narrative that may proceed into Friday, highlighted by Florida's Matthew Tkachuk, who starred in a star-versus-star showdown Several shots at David Pastrnak from Boston took the sport out of their hands.
After the primary 20 minutes, Florida was simply dominant. They didn't allow Boston even a single shot on goal for greater than 16 minutes of game time, or 53 minutes of actual game time. Parker Wotherspoon sent the puck the length of the ice with 5:08 left within the second period, which was ruled a shot since it was right at Bobrovsky. The Bruins didn't get one other try until Wotherspoon had one with 8:57 left within the third.
Swayman – who virtually split time with Linus Ullmark in the course of the regular season, making 43 starts while Ullmark had 39 starts – made his seventh straight start, the longest such run for a Boston goaltender since Tuukka Rask at the tip of the made eleven starts in a row within the 2021/22 season.
Swayman did not finish after Florida finally broke him up within the second period. Swayman stopped 19 of 23 shots and his playoff goals against average increased from 1.42 to 1.81.
Boston had not conceded a couple of goal in any period in these playoffs and had not conceded three in a period in almost two months – not because the New York Rangers scored three goals within the third period on March 21. two of them were short sellers. The Bruins hadn't had a three-goal period with a real goalie in net since March 16 against Philadelphia.
But the Panthers found a way and scored one goal early within the period, one in the midst of the quarter and one on the very end. Lorentz redirected a Montour shot into the highest corner of the online at 1:58, Barkov got here close and swept a rebound from Reinhart's shot into the online for a 2-1 lead at 9:49, after which Forsling made a small one Lead -the-clock to increase the result in 3-1.
With about seven seconds left, Montour had his glove on the puck to dam it because the Bruins attempted to clear it. His shot from the proper side went wide, Anton Lundell controlled the rebound off the tip boards and located Forsling's shot from the left side past Swayman – who seemed to be shielded by Boston defender Charlie McAvoy in the course of the play – with 1.3 seconds left.
The momentum continued within the third. Florida needed just 1:28 to make it 4-1, with Barkov easily organising Luostarinen from close range. That was the tip of Swayman's night.
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