In Anaheim, Sergei Bobrovsky made 35 saves and the Florida Panthers downed the Ducks, 4-1 on Wednesday night.
“It’s big game for us,” Bobrovsky said. “As a team, we gave a good 60-minute effort. We got timely goals, guys sacrificing in the [defensive] zone. It was solid and it was fun too. Winning is fun. We just have to continue to work for each other.”
Sergei Bobrovsky got the win for the Panthers – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Florida moved into third in the Atlantic Division.
“It’s the game, you have to enjoy being here,” Bobrovsky said. “It’s the NHL, it’s the best league in the world. You play against the best players. You dream about that when you’re a kid. You have to take advantage of it and have fun.”
Max Jones scored the lone Ducks goal when he gave them a 1-0 lead in the first period.
“There’s a huge difference of playing a team like that with a lot of offense and being up 1-0 after that first period,” Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins said. “To give up that lead going into the intermission was deflating, to say the least.”
Aleksander Barkov, Aleksi Saarela and Vincent Trocheck scored for the Panthers.
“I was lucky to get that bounce off the wall,” Saarela said. “I had an empty-netter, so it was easy.”
Mackenzie Weegar added an empty goal as the sealer.
“I thought our third period with the lead, we played the way we want to play going forward,” Florida coach Joel Quenneville said. “All lines were contributing. It’s a good start to the trip.”
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John Gibson made 28 saves in the loss.
“There were some things we did well, but we shot ourselves in the foot again on a couple of mistakes,” Eakins said. “Bad change on the first goal, and then on the third one, we iced the puck, we’re hemmed up in our zone and it’s in our net. If you’re not going to be able to score, then we certainly have to keep them out. We can’t afford those kinds of mistakes.”
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