SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Montour scored the tiebreaking objective with 3:32 remaining and the Florida Panthers beat the Ottawa Senators 5-3 on Saturday.
Carter Verhaeghe had two objectives and an help for the Panthers, Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk every had a objective and two assists, and Montour additionally had two assists. Spencer Knight had 23 saves as Florida snapped a two-game skid.
Shane Pinto, Brady Tkachuk and Nick Holden scored for the Senators, who’ve misplaced two straight. Anton Forsber stopped 50 pictures.
After Montour gave the Panthers a 4-3 lead together with his third of the season, Matthew Tkachuk sealed the win with an empty-netter with 14 seconds left.
Florida, which outshot Philadelphia 51-22 on Thursday night time, had one other large taking pictures night time in opposition to the Senators.
Verhaeghe and Barkov scored about 4 minutes aside within the first interval to present the Panthers a 2-0 lead as they outshot the Senators 26-4. Verhaeghe bought the Panthers on the scoreboard at 7:59 and Barkov doubled the lead with a power-play objective with 8:06 left.
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Pinto scored on the facility play 37 seconds into the second and Brady Tkachuk beat Knight to tie it lower than 3 minutes later.
Ottawa appeared to take the lead when Tim Stützle’s shot deflected off Verhaeghe and previous Knight at 5:26 of the second. Nonetheless, Florida challenged for goalie interference and officers dominated Jake Sanderson impaired Knight and took the objective off the board.
Verhaeghe gave Florida the lead again with a blistering slap shot from the highest of the proper circle with 37 seconds left within the center interval.
Within the third, Matthew Tkachuk scored in entrance of the web with 11:01 remaining, however Ottawa received its problem that Florida was offside and that objective was erased as nicely.
Holden’s objective with 8:04 to go within the third tied it 3-3.
BROTHERLY LOVE
The Tkachuk Brothers had a reunion on the ice on Saturday with Matthew assembly youthful brother Brady for the primary time as a member of the Panthers. The 2 at the moment are in the identical division for the primary time since Calgary and Ottawa shared the North due to the pandemic in 2021. Matthew, who had two assists and a objective for the Panthers on Saturday, pulled his private file in opposition to his brother to 8-8 in head-to-head conferences.
“I like taking part in in opposition to him,” Matthew Tkachuk stated earlier than the sport. “One of many largest honors for me is seeing him play within the NHL and seeing him have as a lot success as he’s having. I’m so pleased with him.”
NOTES
The Panthers scored their first power-play objective on residence ice Saturday of their fourth residence recreation. Florida had been 0 for 12 on the facility play at residence previous to Barkov’s objective. … Claude Giroux was dealing with Florida for the primary time because it acquired him in a blockbuster commerce with Philadelphia on the 2022 deadline. Giroux, who signed a three-year contract with Ottawa within the offseason, had three objectives and 23 factors in 18 regular-season video games with the Panthers and three objectives with eight factors in 10 postseason video games.
UP NEXT
Senators: At Tampa Bay on Tuesday night time.
Panthers: At Arizona on Tuesday night time.
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