Jaromir Jagr passed Phil Esposito for fifth place in NHL history with his 718th career goal as the Florida Panthers defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 at BB&T Center on Thursday night. The Panthers moved to five points behind the Boston Bruins for the final Eastern Conference playoff spot.
Roberto Luongo made his first appearance in net for the first time since March 3. He had missed the previous six games due to a right shoulder injury.
Jagr scored his record-breaking goal at 10:55 of the second period for Florida(32-25-14) to take a 1-0 lead. Aleksander Barkov carried the puck through the neutral zone and sent a left outlet pass to Jonathan Huberdeau. Jagr followed up on the play and ripped a shot from the left circle by Petr Mrazek. Huberdeau compiled his tenth point in the last nine games.
The Panthers made it a two-goal margin at 14:42 as Jagr almost tallied his second goal of the game. Brian Campbell fed the puck from the left point to Aaron Ekblad at the top right circle. His slapshot was saved, Jagr first poked the puck in the blue paint and Brandon Pirri tipped it into the Red Wings cage. It was the fourth consecutive game that Pirri scored and he recorded his 14th goal in his last 19 games played.
In the third period, the Cats took a 3-0 lead on the effort of Scottie Upshall. He cleared the puck out to the neutral zone, picked it up on the left wing, skated to the left-circle dot and snapped in a shot at 6:50.
Detroit(38-20-11) broke the shutout with 9:53 left in the third. Riley Sheahan poke checked the puck from Aaron Ekblad in the right corner and it moved to end wall. Tomas Tatar backhanded it to the middle where Erik Cole scored on a one-time shot from the right of the crease.
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