Friday Round-Up: Cats, Bolts Post Big Road Wins

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A.J. Greer and Anton Lundell scored 4:10 apart in the third period helping the Florida Panthers recover after squandering a two-goal lead to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 6-3 on Friday.

Lundell, who also had an assist, notched the Panthers’ league-leading seventh short-handed goal this season.

A nine-game home-ice winning streak ended for the Hurricanes.

Jesper Boqvist, Sam Reinhart, Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Bennett, with an empty-net tally, also scored for Florida, which won its second consecutive game after a four-game losing streak. Aaron Ekblad had two assists and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 28 shots. Reinhart has an NHL-best 18 goals, scoring in seven of the last nine games.

Seth Jarvis, Sean Walker and Eric Robinson scored for Carolina. Shayne Gostisbehere had two assists. Spencer Martin made 24 saves.

Takeaways

Panthers: Winning back-to-back games after losing six of seven might be the boost the Panthers need to get on track. Lundell is third on the team with eight goals, but ended up with at least one point for only the second time in his last nine games.

Hurricanes: The second-longest home winning streak in franchise history was halted. They rallied from a multigoal deficit for the third straight game, but couldn’t finish this one.

Key moment

Shortly after going ahead in the third, the Panthers were close to finishing a penalty kill when Lundell converted on a 2-on-1 shorthanded rush. This was on top of Florida’s 5-on-3 kill in the first period while holding a two-goal cushion that later vanished.

Key stat

The Hurricanes have scored on a power play in five consecutive games, while Florida has allowed a power-play goal in five of its last six outings.

Up next

The Panthers and Hurricanes have a rematch Saturday in Florida.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Brayden Point scored a power-play goal at 1:01 of overtime to give Tampa Bay a victory over Nashville.

Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel also scored and Jonas Johnasson made 29 saves for the Lightning, who have won two of three.

Roman Josi scored twice and Juuse Saros made 25 saves for Nashville, losers of three straight.

Josi scored the game’s first goal at 1:123 of the opening period with a wrist shot through traffic that beat Johansson high to the far side and Cirelli tied it at 4:06 of the second with a shorthanded goal.

Cirelli left the game early in the first after being hit in the face with a shot from teammate Erik Cernak. Cirelli returned to the game later in the first wearing a full protective face shield. Cirelli had a six-game goal scoring streak snapped Wednesday against Washington. With his goal Friday afternoon, Cirelli has eight goals in eight games.