The Florida Panthers almost came back to win, but were stopped by the St. Louis Blues in a shootout 2-1 at BB&T Center on Sunday. The Panthers have scored just two goals in their last three games. It was their final game of a six-game stretch for them against Western Conference opponents.
St. Louis(37-15-4) dominated the first period as they outshot the Cats 14-7 and were unable to score against Roberto Luongo. Florida(24-19-12) committed five giveaways in the opening frame.
The Blues took the lead at 11:48 of the second period as Jaden Schwartz scored his 20th goal of the campaign. Jori Lehtera had the puck in the right corner and passed it to Schwartz in the low right circle where his snap shot went over the right shoulder of Luongo.
The Panthers had to wait until there was 1:13 left in the third period to tie the game at 1-1 when they had an extra attacker on the ice. Aaron Ekblad took a shot from the left point which was tipped wide left of the net by Aleksander Barkov in the low slot. It banked off the back wall to Nick Bjugstad to the right of the crease area. His wrist shot bounced off the left skate of Brian Elliott and into the short side for his team-leading 20th goal of the season.
In the shootout, Vladamir Tarasenko and Brad Boyes both scored for their teams during the second round. Lehtera put in the winning tally for the Blues in the fifth round.
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