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Mackie Samoskevich and Carter Verhaeghe connected 2:04 apart
early in the third period and Sam Reinhart added an empty-netter
as the Panthers won for the sixth time in eight. Daniil Tarasov
made 19 saves and the two-time defending Stanley Cup Panthers
moved eight games over .500 for the first time this season.
Tyler Bertuzzi scored his team-leading 25th goal for the
Blackhawks. Spencer Knight, who started his career with Florida,
made 20 saves and fell to 0-2 against his former team.
The teams generated only a handful of chances through the first
and second periods and neither pressured with a territorial
edge.
Bjornfot's fluke goal opened the scoring with 4:27 left in the
second. From a faceoff in the Chicago zone, he circled the net
and jammed in the puck through Knight’s pads from the right
side.
It was the journeyman's first goal in five games this season.
His previous score came in May 2021 with Los Angeles during the
COVID-19 altered season.
Bertuzzi tied it 1-all with 29.3 seconds left. At the edge of
the crease, he took Ilya Mikheyev's feed and shoveled a high
shot past Tarasov's stick side.
The Panthers responded with a four-goal third period, despite
playing at Minnesota on Saturday and winning 4-3 in overtime.
Samoskevich put Florida back ahead at 5:20 of the final frame
when his shot from the slot slipped under Knight's arm and
trickled over the goal line.
Verhaeghe upped it to 3-1 just over two minutes later, firing a
one-timer from the slot.
Reinhart scored into an empty net with 1:49 left. With Knight
back in goal, Bjornfot connected with 22 seconds left after he
cruised into the slot and fired in Verhaeghe's feed.
Up next
Panthers: Host Utah on Tuesday.
Blackhawks: At Minnesota on Tuesday.
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