The Florida Panthers crushed the Boston Bruins 6–1 to even the series. The Finns scored half of Florida’s goals.
In the match of the second round of the NHL playoffs, the Florida Panthers defeated their guests the Boston Bruins 6–1. At the same time, the panther pack tied the match series at 1–1. Boston took the teams’ first meeting on Tuesday clearly 5–1.
An audience of almost 20,000 people had arrived to watch the teams’ fiery second battle in Sunrise, Florida.
Away team Boston Charlie Coyle started the match’s scoring in the first period by completing the scoreboard with 1–0.
In the second set, Florida finally took the reins in their hands and started rushing towards the Swedish hammer Linus Ullmark’s guarding the Boston goal.
The first one from Florida to hit was the one who moved south from San Jose for this season Steve Lorentz. After this, the Finnish skipper of the home team Alexander Barkov started his act by finishing Florida’s first for a 2–1 lead.
At this point, Boston changed its point guard by sending Ullmark to the bench. It was replaced Jeremy Swayman25.
The 3–1 goal was the Panthers’ Swedish defender by Gustav Fosling handwriting. As a pitcher Anton Lundell.
At the beginning of the third period Eetu Luostarinen increased Florida’s lead to 4–1 from Barkov’s tasty serve.
Barkov’s second goal of the night was scored with an upper hand by Sam Reinhart preliminary work.
The final score was 6-1 underpowered Brandon Montourpitched by Barkov and Reinhart.
Reinhart became the first player in Florida club history to record four assists in a playoff game.
Barkov, who completed his performances in the 2+2 match, was also active in the physical game. The Finn recorded a total of nine tackles in the match. At the same time, he became the first player in 14 years to collect at least four power points and nine tackles in the same match. The previous player who was able to do the trick was a tough player who represented the Chicago Blackhawks at the time Dustin Byfuglien.
Barkov also won eight of his 11 starts.
The head coach of the team Paul Maurice praised his captain’s performance on the night in the post-game in the interview.
– He is the perfect man to captain the Florida Panthers.
Barkov told NHL in an interview that his team did everything it wanted in the game.
– They took the lead in the first period, but we didn’t change anything. We just continued our game, went hard and towards the goal. We did what we wanted to do.
Maurice was also convinced of the entertainment value of the match.
– If you paid money to come to the game tonight, you had a very good night, It is explained in the AP article.
Dance from time to time
As is well known for the playoff battle, emotions were very hot at times in both camps. In the third period, the teams were given a total of 146 minutes of ice time.
With Montour hitting underpowered eight minutes before the end of the game, the Bruins With Brad Marchand had something to say to the scorer. After this, all five field players of both teams waved their gloves. Among others, Florida’s Finnish defender was present Niko Mikkola.
A moment from now and the teams’ star players in Boston David Pastrnak and Florida Matthew Tkachuck agree with each other about fighting. The players also asked permission from their own coaches. The video published on Sportnet’s messaging service X (below) shows how the players agreed on the matter. Tkachuck’s father, a St. Louis Blues player legend Keith Tkachuck applauded his son proudly in the stands.
Florida coach Maurice said in an interview that he thought the fight was great.
– Two elite attackers wanted to measure each other. I thought it was awesome. When it was over, both seemed fine. Sorry if anyone is offended by this notion. I do not care.
Tkachuck and Pastrnak both received a shower command from the situation and it made them the 12 players of the match who were sent to the locker room side.
– It’s part of playoff hockey, Bruins coach Jim Montgomery in turn said.
Some of the players also seemed to be literally dancing with each other. Here’s a model showing Florida Dmitry Kulikov and Boston Justin Brazeau.
The series moves to Boston next. The teams will meet in the third match Finnish time early on Saturday morning.
– Away trips have been good for us, Maurice referred to his team’s strong hold in away matches According to the Miami Herald.
NHL: playoff round results from text TV page 235.