Brad Marchand scored two targets Thursday evening because the Florida Panthers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1 at Dawn, Fla.
Evan Rodrigues added a objective and an help for the Panthers, who have been enjoying their first sport after the Olympic break. Carter Verhaeghe and Matthew Tkachuk additionally scored. Anton Lundell added two assists and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 28 photographs for Florida, which was on a 1-5-0 run forward of the break.
John Tavares scored for the Maple Leafs, who’ve misplaced their first two video games after the break. Joseph Woll made 31 saves.
The Panthers took a 3-0 lead within the first interval in a matchup of groups making an attempt to get into playoff rivalry. Marchand scored from the sting of the crease at 3:18 after Lundell despatched the puck towards the web. A turnover by Toronto’s Matthew Knies began the sequence.
A cool bounce on Toronto defenseman Troy Stecher’s clearing try from behind the web helped Verhaeghe rating a power-play objective from 20 ft at 5:13. Nicolas Roy was off for tripping.
Rodrigues scored his first profession short-handed objective on a breakaway at 16:40 after stripping the puck from William Nylander within the impartial zone.
Toronto performed with extra power within the goalless second interval. Bobrovsky made two large saves within the closing two minutes of the interval, first on Nylander’s break-in after which on Simon Benoit.
Tavares scored a power-play objective from the sting of the crease at 47 seconds of the third interval. Auston Matthews earned his 350th profession help with a move that deflected off the skate of Florida’s Gustav Forsling. Aaron Ekblad was serving a roughing penalty.
The Panthers had a objective referred to as again at 9:02 of the third after a video evaluation decided that the play was offside.
Toronto withstood a Florida energy play halfway via the third with Woll contributing a key save.
Marchand hit the put up with Woll eliminated for an additional attacker however then made no mistake on his subsequent try at 16:51.
Tkachuk added one other empty-net objective at 18:08.
It was Florida’s first win this season towards Toronto. The Maple Leafs had gained the 2 earlier video games and the groups will play as soon as extra, on April 11 in Toronto.
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