Florida’s ITU Luosarin was a career night with a goal and as three assistance, the panthers closed their first-round Eastern conference playoff matchup on Wednesday night, beating Tampa Belining 6-3 in Game 5 of their best series.
With the Stanley Cup champs, Lustarinn left a Nifty Cross-I This pass from 5-3 to 6:58 with a nifty cross-I This pass 5-3 from Brad Marchand. Sam Renhart had an empty-net tally at 15:36.
By winning the series 4–1, Florida, who won all three games in Tampa, to move forward in the next round to face Toronto Maple Leafs or Ottawa Senator, took a 3–2 lead with Toronto, as the series returns to Ottawa for Thursday’s Game 6.
Anton Lundel had a target and two assistance, and a support pair by Reinhart. Carter Verheghe, Alexander Barkov and Sam Bennett scored, while Marchand had two assistance. Goltender Sergei Bobroveski made 26 saves.
Tampa Bay’s Gauge Gonclaves, Nick Paul and Jake Guestzel hit the net. Victor Headman had two assistance. Golki Andrei Vasilevsky stopped 25 shots.
Lightning’s Brandon Hagel (injury) and Florida’s Aaron Ekblad (suspension) missed.
The domestic side took an early lead when Gonclaves got a rolling puck and long for its first career playoff goal at 2:33.
However, a pre -power, vehegh, known for the Big Playoff Tall, was sent to a goal on the first power play when he was flipped into a marker from a Matthew Full Shot at 5:21.
In the wild frame, Lundel provided the first lead of Florida with a goal from his left skate near Marchand, but Paul looked at one equal 2:10 later spinning and killing one in one.
Barkov moved to second place in 52 seconds in his first goal of the series, and Bobarovski, four minutes later, saved a heavy point on Ericks and Gonclaves besides each other, besides each other.
Guentzel included it for the third time when he scored at 9:57 on his team’s second power play, which broke the 0 -for -15 stretch of futility.
Florida finished two-one-one from Lundel for the third time when Bennett got out of the penalty box, with a go-farward snip with 4-3 at 15:13.
The panthers have now won 23 consecutive playoff games, when after the second period, the lead and regular season have gained 32–4–1 in those situations.
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