In Dallas Saturday night, James Reimer made 35 stops in a 3-1 win for the Florida Panthers over the Stars.
Jaromir Jagr – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Twenty of those saves came in the third period.
“I left out a few juicy rebounds sometimes and [the Panthers] were all over it,” Reimer said of the third period. “You don’t win a game without your D-men and your teammates, everyone, chipping in and playing well. They did a great job tonight.”
Jussi Jokinen, Jaromir Jagr and Vincent Trocheck scored for the Panthers.
“The puck movement was unbelievable,” Panthers coach Tom Rowe said. “I was not overly concerned about the power play. I know it didn’t look good in the stats, but you could see it coming when we have the players we have and the skill they have, they’re going to be able to move it around, and it was only a matter of time before it started going in.”
Antti Niemi got the start in the Dallas net but as has become all too easy this season, he was replaced by Kari Lehtonen after Jagr made the score 3-0.
“I didn’t like a couple of goals, but I didn’t like our team,” Stars coach Lindy Ruff said. “We hung [Niemi] out to dry on a couple of the plays. Could he have made the save? Yeah. But it isn’t on our goaltender. I threw [Lehtonen] in there to see if he could give us a spark.”
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Patrick Eaves was the lone goal scorer for the Stars.
“A lot of games when we lost in overtime or shootouts, you know we had the lead going into the third period. And tonight it’s kind of like first time after a while we kept the lead. It wasn’t very pretty, but we kept the lead,” Jagr said after the win.
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