Brad Marchand extended his goal streak to five games and also had an assist as Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 saves to lead the Florida Panthers to a 3-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday night in Las Vegas.
Jesper Boqvist and Sam Reinhart also scored goals and Donovan Sebrango picked up the first two assists of his NHL career for Florida, which completed a sweep of the two-game regular-season series with the Golden Knights.
Tomas Hertl and Ivan Barbashev scored goals and Carl Lindbom finished with 17 saves for Vegas, which lost its third straight home game and fell to 2-4-2 over its last eight games.
Shortly after Bobrovsky made a highlight-reel toe save on a Mitch Marner point-blank shot from the right side of the crease, Florida took a 1-0 lead at the 14:47 mark of the first period on a slap shot from the left point through traffic by Boqvist. It snapped a 14-game goal drought for Boqvist.
The Panthers extended the lead to 2-0 midway through the second period when Marchand came down the left wing, stick-handled around defenseman Kaedan Korczak and then beat Lindbom with a backhand shot past his glove side for his team-leading 11th goal.
Hertl cut the lead to 2-1 early in the third period when he put in a diving rebound in the slot of a Shea Theodore point shot.
Reinhart made it 3-1 at the 4:54 mark with a power-play goal, redirecting Seth Jones’ point shot into the bottom left corner past Lindbom’s blocked side.
Barbashev, playing in his 600th NHL game, closed the gap to one goal again midway through the period when he ripped a wrist shot from the bottom of the right circle over Bobrovsky’s left shoulder for his fourth goal in the last four games.
Vegas pulled Lindbom for an extra attacker with 1:30 to go and Bobrovsky turned away a slap shot by Shea Theodore and a sharp-angled shot from the left side of the net by Jack Eichel to seal the win.
–Field Level Media
