The Detroit Red Wings built a 3-1 lead early in the second period, but the host Florida Panthers erased with thee goals in the frame.
After the closing the deficit to 2-3, Mike Hoffman and Dominic Toninato scored just nine seconds apart to give Florida a 3-2 lead.
“I thought we started off pretty good and then kind of let our foot off the gas a little bit,” Hoffman said. “Too many mistakes that caused goals. There was going to be a little adversity in the game, especially coming off a four-day break. I like the way we battled back and were able to slowly chip away.”
Chris Driedger made 35 saves to get the win for the Panthers.
Frans Nielsen, Darren Helm, Dylan Larkin, and Luke Glendening scored for the Red Wings.
“This is far from our worst game this year,” Nielsen said. “We did a lot of good stuff out there tonight. We created a lot of chances against a good team.”
Evgenii Dadonov, Brett Connolly and Anton Stralman scored for the Panthers.
“You could say his goal certainly got it going and then you could say [Stralman’s] goal there in the third gave us a little bit of breathing room and we needed it in the end,” Panthers coach Joel Quenneville said. “But our power play, it looked like it wasn’t a very good one at that time when we gave up a shorty and then we all of a sudden get ourselves right back in the mix. So it was a big goal.”
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Jimmy Howard made 25 saves in the loss.
“I’ll go back and say, if we continue to play like that and have that next-shift mentality and play that hard and competitive, we’re going to get our results that I (thought) we probably deserved tonight, Detroit head coach Jeff Blashill said.
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