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" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "When they fly back home on Friday, the Panthers should feel pretty good about what they accomplished while north of the border. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Riding a red-hot penalty kill and a strong third period, Florida took down the Montreal Canadiens 5-1 on Thursday to conclude their three-game-in-four-night roadie with five of a possible six points. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "A pair of uncharacteristic first period penalties on Niko Mikkola would test Florida’s PK in the game’s opening minutes, but the unit remained strong, killing both despite allowing a handful of shots. " } }, { "type": "image", "data": { "file": { "url": "https://thehockeynews.com/.image/c_fit,h_600,w_600/MjAwNjE3OTM2NjIzMjQ4NDky/img_6014.jpg" }, "caption": "" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "By the time first 20 minutes expired, the Panthers had been called for three penalties and narrowly escaped with a scoreless tie despite losing 13 of the 17 faceoffs and being credited with seven giveaways. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "As the game neared its midway point, Panthers captain Sasha Barkov would get rewarded for what had been an excellent game to that point when he intercepted a long D to D pass by Gustav Lindstrom and headed down the ice on an odd man rush. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Looking like he was preparing to pass across the zone to a streaking Sam Reinhart, Barkov instead sent a laser of a wrist shot over the shoulder of Cayden Primeau to give the Cats a 1-0 lead. 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" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Evan Rodrigues got in on the fun a few minutes later, sending a long wrist shot past Primeau and getting a rousing cheer from his teammates. It was his first goal in Florida's past 11 games. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "A Carter Verharghe power play marker at the 5:49 mark would make it three goals on five third period shots for Florida, and just like that they were up 4-0. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Unfortunately for Bobrovsky, he wouldn’t end up with his second consecutive shutout. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "A long, unscreened wrist shot from Jonathan Kovacevic went off the top of the webbing part of Bobrovsky’s glove – causing it to bend inward instead of the puck going into the webbing as designed – and the puck fluttered into the net. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "A late goal – as in 11 seconds to go late – by Oliver Ekman-Larsson would be the cherry on top of a resounding victory and a successful road trip. " } }, { "id": "eh6zg4wz-2xc9iunt", "type": "embed", "data": { "service": "twitter", "source": "https://twitter.com/FlaPanthers/status/1730418549955403903", "embed": "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1730418549955403903", "caption": "" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Here are some thoughts and observations from Thursday’s contest in Montreal: " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Barkov had an excellent all-around game, finishing with a goal and an assist pushing some of the best even strength defensive metrics on the team. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Florida came into the game scorching hot on the penalty kill, 20-for-20 their past five and 12-for-12 on the road trip. They killed off all six Montreal penalties on Thursday. 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Barkov, Panthers wrap up successful road trip with 5-1 win in Montreal