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The game was a physical contest throughout but
really got out of hand in a third period that saw 146 penalty
minutes between the two teams.
"I know it's the playoffs and these kind of things happen,"
Barkov said after the game. "I don't want to say it's normal,
but sometimes it's just gonna happen. But the next game starts
from 0-0, so it's 1-1 now (in the series) and we're happy with
today's game."
Fourth-liner Steven Lorentz, Eetu Luostarinen and defenseman
Gustav Forsling also scored for Florida, which recorded six
consecutive goals in a playoff game for the first time in
franchise history. Sergei Bobrovsky made 14 saves in the win.
Jeremy Swayman, who turned aside 19 of 23 shots, yielded more
than two goals for the first time in eight games this
postseason. Boston coach Jim Montgomery pulled Swayman 1:28 into
the third period after Luostarinen made it 4-1.
"The workload hasn't played into Jeremy Swayman," Montgomery
said. "The workload played into our effort tonight. We didn't
have juice tonight."
Linus Ullmark made eight saves in relief and Charlie Coyle
scored a goal in the first period for the Bruins.
An unmarked Lorentz deftly deflected Montour's shot from the
point past Swayman to forge a 1-1 tie at 1:56 of the second
period. The goal was the second of the playoffs for Lorentz, who
had one tally in 38 games during the regular season.
Barkov gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead just under eight minutes
later after gaining inside position on Boston defenseman Charlie
McAvoy and cleaning up a rebound off a shot from Reinhart.
Forsling doubled the advantage after he dropped to a knee while
blasting a shot past Swayman with two seconds remaining in the
second period.
A turnover deep in Boston's zone allowed Barkov to feed
Luostarinen at the back post for an easy conversion and a 4-1
lead for the Panthers at 1:28 of the third period.
Barkov forced a turnover at the blue line and beat Ullmark at
10:52 of the third for his fourth goal in his past three games.
Just 66 seconds later Barkov fed Montour at the doorstep to make
it 6-1.
Less than a minute later, Florida's Matthew Tkachuk and the
Bruins' David Pastrnak squared off in a rare fight between
stars.
"A great fight. Two leaders going against each other," Bobrovsky
said. "It's good for the game, for sure."
Pastrnak said of Tkachuk, "I'm not afraid of him ... I can take
a punch."
Boston's swarming forecheck resulted in Florida committing a
turnover in its defensive end, leading to the game's first goal
with 7:48 remaining in the first period. Pavel Zacha executed a
give-and-go with captain Brad Marchand before the latter
backhanded a goalmouth feed that Coyle converted for his first
goal of the postseason.
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