Roberto Luongo passed Ed Belfour for third all-time in NHL history with his 485th win as the Florida Panthers topped the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 in overtime at Pepsi Center on Monday night. It was the first game of a three-game road trip for the Cats following a seven-game home stand. Derick Brassard was traded by the Panthers to the Avalanche earlier in the day. The Avs are now 1-11 in overtime this campaign.
Colorado(27-24-12) waited until the second period to lead 2-0. Tyler Jost scored at the 2:12 mark and Mikko Rantanen got his 26th goal of the season at 14:31.
Florida(28-25-8) answered back with 1:34 remaining and trailed 2-1. MacKenzie Weegar slammed the puck around the boards from the right corner to Keith Yandle on the left wing. He centered it and Troy Brouwer snapped a shot from the slot area by Semyon Varlamov.
The Panthers added a power-play goal with 24.8 second to go to tie the contest. Mike Hoffman fired a wrist shot from the right circle that which went off Aleksander Barkov and Evgenii Dadonov poked it in from the crease for his 22nd goal of the season. Dadonov extended his point streak to six games with his second tally in the last three games.
In the third period, Brassard burned his former team at 7:49. Ryan Graves carried the puck from his own zone all the way to the end wall of the Panthers zone. He sent it to the crease and Brassard one-timed a shot from close range past Luongo.
The Cats evened it up 3-3 with 8:03 left. Yandle connected a cross-ice pass from above the right circle to Hoffman in the left circle for a snap shot. It was the 27th goal for Hoffman and 40th assist for Yandle this season.
Florida took their first lead 26 seconds into overtime to win the game. Vincent Trocheck won a faceoff in his own zone and swatted the puck down the ice. Hoffman skated the puck from the Panthers blue line, stopped in the left circle and backhand a pass. Aaron Ekblad received it and shot from the right-circle dot for the victory.
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