Canadiens vs Panthers

After playing nine of their last 10 games outside of Sunrise, the Panthers will kick off a two-game homestand with a matchup against the Canadiens at FLA Live ...

… Sam Reinhart has 15 points (seven goals, eight assists) over his last 15 games. Panthers: Aleksander Barkov has 22 points (six goals, 16 assists) over his last 16 games. Canadiens: Nick Suzuki has 16 points (seven goals, nine assists) over his last 13 games. Guys are excited to go to work every day and put in the work every day. It's our third game in four nights and we tied it up late, so I'm happy with the way the guys fought and crawled back and almost won it." They like to have fun, but they definitely put the work in every day to make themselves successful." Jonathan Huberdeau led the Panthers with 14 points (three goals, 11 assists) during that stretch to increase his team-high point total to 90. … Cole Caufield has 13 points (seven goals, six assists) over his last 11 games. Joining the Panthers for their trip in Canada was the team's three trade deadline acquisitions. In their last 10 games, they posted a strong 7-2-1 record while outscoring the opposition 36-27. Sitting at 31-6-3 with a .916 save percentage, he owns a 12-7-1 record over 20 career appearances against Montreal. We're just happy to be back home playing in front of them."

It was another beautiful loss for Montreal — not beautiful in the score, but beautiful in that they are creating a new way to go about this.

She wanted him to not be dull and monotone like the previous regime would have suggested in interviews, but to be the entertaining person that he is. That was the nature of the organization at the time. The entire organization is rejuvenated under Jeff Gorton and Kent Hughes. The freedom that everyone is feeling to do this a different way is refreshing. In this one, the Canadiens tried to go back and forth up the sheet against the fastest team in the league. Montreal does not have the guns yet to do that, and you could see it by the score of the contest. However, when it is the process that is the thing, the learning and the work is never done. And even better than that, he was right back on the ice for his next shift after the error that led to the goal. Like he did when he opened the scoring for the Canadiens. It’s clear that the game is fun again for him. Another strength of St. Louis is he seems to understand that to get the best of them, he needs to believe in them. The Canadiens weren’t really interested in the style of hockey he is good at. He rushes the puck up the ice. He was asked to play a safe, plodding style, focusing on banking the puck off the glass as soon as he got a chance to clear it.

The Panthers are coming off a 5-2 loss to Toronto Sunday but they are 7-2-1 in their last 10 games and lead the Eastern Conference with 94 points, which is ...

Aaron Ekblad is among the top-scoring defencemen in the NHL with a team-record 57 point but he’s out with a knee injury suffered March 19 in Anaheim. He’s third in the NHL scoring race, seven points behind McDavid, and the Panthers have the second-best record in the NHL behind Colorado. There’s no shortage of 20-goal scorers on the Florida roster. The goaltender of the future in Florida is former Boston College standout Spencer Knight. He has a 13-9-4 record with a 2.94 goals-against average and a .904 save percentage. Caufield, who has a three-game points streak, has 13 goals and 25 points in 21 games on St. Louis’s watch. In Allen’s last start, he made a career-high 49 saves Saturday as the Canadiens defeated the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3. The Panthers won 5-2 in Sunrise, Fla., on New Year’s Day but it was closer last Thursday when the Canadiens kept it close before losing 4-3.

SUNRISE, Fla. -- — Jonathan Huberdeau and Ryan Lomberg both had two goals and an assist to lead the Florida Panthers past the Montreal Canadiens 7-4 on ...

... The Canadiens are on pace for the fourth-worst record in team history, and the worst mark by any Montreal club in more than 80 years. ... The Panthers offered a tribute to former center Mike Hoffman on the video board in the second period. ... Only one team in Panthers history had more wins than this Florida club does, that being the 2015-16 squad that had 47 victories. Florida tied the score 1-all on Huberdeau’s short-handed goal with 3:43 left in the first. Dauphin poked in a loose puck 31 seconds later to make it 4-3, and Dvorak scored from the left circle with 1:54 remaining. ... The Panthers have 268 goals, their most in one season. It was a milestone night for Huberdeau, who tied the NHL record for assists in a season by a left wing with 70. “We took some punches and they had us on the ropes but then we came out swinging,” coach Martin St. Louis said. Canadiens C Jake Evans slid into the boards hard in the third and did not return. It’s nice to get milestones, but it’s great to get the win.” “Giving up three goals is kind of unacceptable,” interim Panthers coach Andrew Brunette said. “It was tough at 4-1, for sure,” Dauphin said.