BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Anthony Stolarz stopped 45 pictures for his seventh profession shutout and the Florida Panthers grew to become the eleventh NHL staff to win 10 consecutive street video games, beating the Buffalo Sabres 4-0 on Thursday night time.
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Carter Verhaeghe opened the scoring halfway via the primary interval and added an empty-netter. Anton Lundell scored by tipping in Matthew Tkachuk’s level shot on a delayed penalty with 2:44 left within the second interval. Ryan Lomberg adopted Verhaeghe’s empty-netter with a objective with 11 seconds remaining.
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Florida prolonged its franchise-record street profitable with the run that’s tied for the sixth-longest amongst NHL groups, and two in need of matching the report held by Detroit (2005-06) and Minnesota (2014-15).
The Panthers received on consecutive nights, following a 5-2 victory at Pittsburgh, and their street streak is the league’s second-longest this season after Los Angeles’ 11-game run from Oct. 17 to Dec. 7.
Florida improved its street report to 19-7-2, and hasn’t misplaced away from house since dropping a 3-1 determination at Calgary on Dec. 18. Florida’s really been scorching each house and away, going 17-3-2 in its previous 22 total.
Buffalo reverted to its inconsistencies by dropping to 9-8 in its previous 17, and failing to construct off a 7-0 victory over the Kings on Tuesday night time. Eric Comrie stopped 27 pictures in dropping his sixth consecutive begin and dropping to 1-6 this season.
Comrie obtained his first begin in additional than two months after the staff introduced a couple of hours earlier than faceoff that Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen was listed as each day due to a lower-body harm.
Stolarz was sharp in posting his first shutout of the season, and the second of his profession in opposition to Buffalo. His greatest stops got here in kicking out his left pad to twice cease Kyle Okposo’s try to jam in a rebound throughout an influence play 5 minutes into the third interval.
The Sabres additionally failed to complete.
Rookie Zach Benson was set as much as the correct of the web and missed the open facet by taking pictures broad 7:30 into the primary interval. Casey Mittelstadt was arrange on the left of the web and was unable to carry the puck over Stolarz’s outstretched pads. And Dylan Cozens missed scoring into an open proper facet by deflecting the puck again into Stolarz, who then fell on the puck.
The Sabres did not win consecutive house video games for simply the second time this season.
Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov arrange the opening objective by forcing Sabres rookie defenseman Ryan Johnson to cough up the puck in the correct nook. Barkov then fed Verhaeghe, who was left alone in entrance.
Lundell’s objective got here seconds after a delayed penalty was known as in opposition to Buffalo’s Tage Thompson.
UP NEXT
Panthers: At Tampa Bay on Saturday night time.
Sabres: At Minnesota on Saturday night time.
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