In Sunrise, Anton Lundell hit for a double, and the Panthers defeated the Detroit Red Wings 6-2, on Saturday.
“I’m never surprised by Anton anymore,” Panthers coach Andrew Brunette said. “This is what he’s been doing for us all year. I only wish he could have finished off the hat trick.”
Florida improved to 37-13-5.
“We were getting really leaky for a while, and I thought we got a lot better,” the Panthers’ Sam Reinhart said. “That game didn’t go our way, but now we’ve been really good for two in a row.”
Sergei Bobrovsky made 20 saves in the Panthers win.
“You get a little excited because you know they have such good young players (Moritz Seider and Lucas Raymond) and you have to find a way to shut them down,” Lundell said. “I think we got a step ahead of them right from the beginning and did the things we are supposed to do.”
Robby Fabbri and Tyler Bertuzzi were the Detroit strikers.
“When you look at the elite teams in this league, they defend very well and they don’t give you easy chances,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “We have to work extraordinarily hard to compete with those teams, and we’ve come up short in these last few games.”
Sam Bennett and Mason Marchment had single markers for the Panthers.
Detroit dropped to 24-26-6.
“We gave up a soft goal, and then they score two on the power play and we’re down 3-1,” Blashill said. “We’ve got to find a way to start killing penalties, because we can’t dig ourselves out of 3-1 and 4-1 holes very often.”
Anthony Duclair and Lucas Carlsson also scored for Florida.
“They are a deep team that plays fast, moves the puck and creates a lot of offense,” the Red Wings’ Sam Gagner said. “To beat them, you have to match their pace and keep the puck in their end of the net. We didn’t do that tonight, so we have to look at it as a learning experience.”
Thomas Greiss got the start for the Red Wings and yielded five goals, and made 18 saves before getting the hook in the second period.
Alex Nedeljkovic made 15 saves in a mop up role.
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