The Florida Panthers had their season-high, five-game winning streak snapped as they fell to the Minnesota Wild 5-1 at Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday night. It was the first game of a five-game road trip for the Panthers.
In the first period, Minnesota(21-16-3) drew first blood with 5:39 left. Daniel Winnik passed from the left wing to Jared Spurgeon, he took a slap shot from the right point and James Reimer made a right leg save. Former Panther Matt Cullen connected on the rebound from the inner edge of the left circle to make it 1-0.
The goal finished a streak that the Cats had not been behind in a game for 210 minutes. The last time the team trailed was against the same Wild squad in Sunrise 12 days ago.
The Wild extended their lead to 2-0 at the 1:56 of the second period. Cullen scored for the second time on assists from Marcus Foligno and Gustav Olofsson.
Eric Staal would score twice in less than three minutes later in the frame for a four-goal margin. He put in a tally with 5:29 to go and added another with 2:50 remaining. Tyler Ennis compiled assists on both plays for Minnesota.
Florida(17-17-5) finally got on the board at 3:40 of the third period. Aleksander Barkov was on the left-wing wall and sent a cross-ice pass to Vincent Trocheck in the low right circle. He quickly passed to the crease area where Jonathan Huberdeau tipped the puck in from the blue paint for his 14th goal of the season. Harri Sateri made his NHL debut in net for the Panthers when he replaced an injured James Reimer during the second period.
Minnesota got a four-goal lead again with 3:05 left in the third. Charlie Coyle was able to score into an empty net after the Panthers pulled their goalie for an extra attacker.
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