In Sunrise, the Panthers’ Patric Hornqvist hit for a pair of goals in a 6-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.
The first period was an open affair with the Panthers taking a 3-2 lead.
“Anybody that watches a hockey game and turns on the Florida Panthers right now is going to be entertained,” Panthers head coach Andrew Brunette said. “When we get wave after wave and we get everybody rolling, we’re a pretty dangerous hockey team.”
Sergei Bobrovsky made 47 saves in the Florida win.
Johnny Gaudreau and Blake Coleman scored for the Flames in the first period.
The Panthers improved to 22-7-4.
Hornqvist (power play), Anthony Duclair, and Joe Thornton (power play) scored for Florida in the opening frame.
“With our situation being so fluid, we’re getting guys in and out,” Brunette said. “It’s nice to see a couple go in. Both power-play goals were huge in the first period, which I didn’t think was our best.”
Ryan Lomberg scored with 17 seconds left in the middle frame for a 4-2 lead for the Panthers.
Calgary dropped to 17-8-6.
“You give up that many goals, you’re not going to win,” Flames head coach Darryl Sutter said. “We had some defensemen that weren’t into the defending or checking part of the game and it cost us the hockey game.”
Hornqvist and Lucas Carlsson scored in the third period for the 6-2final.
Jacob Markstrom made 39 saves in the Calgary loss.
“We left [Markstrom] out to dry on pretty much all of them, whether it’s turnovers or not picking up guys or just not getting pucks out or not having your guy,” the Flames’ Matthew Tkachuk said. “We lost each period, so our mindset going into the game is the exact opposite, it’s to win each period. It’s not a recipe for success how we played tonight.
“Hopefully it’s just a one-off, because we’re playing the defending Cup champs here in a couple of days (at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday), and we better play a lot better than that.”
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