Panthers Beaten By Bruins

     The Florida Panthers were overcome by the Boston Bruins in the final minute of the contest and lost 4-3 at TD Garden on Thursday night. The Panthers stretched their winless streak to six games with the defeat. The Bruins extended their long point streak to 18 games and their winning streak to five games
     Florida(28-27-12) took the lead 1-0 on a power-play goal at 2:48 of the second period. Jonathan Huberdeau placed a pass from the left wing to the top of the zone. Keith Yandle snapped a shot that was deflected by Aleksander Barkov from the crease past Tuukka Rask. It was the 29th goal of the season for Barkov which is a career-high for him. He had 28 goals back in the 2015-16 regular season.
     The Panthers put up another tally on the power play at the 6:27 mark. Yandle angled a pass from the blue line to Barkov in the top right circle. A Barkov centering pass popped into the air and Huberdeau batted the puck in from the low slot for his 19th goal of the campaign.
     The lead was cut by Boston(41-17-9) with 9:31 left in the second. Josh Brown turned the puck over his defensive zone to Danton Heinen at the left point. He performed a give-and-go with David Krejci above the top left circle. Heinen found him again with a cross-ice pass through the low slot and Krejci double-tapped the puck into the cage with a forehand shot from the low right circle.
     The Bruins pulled off a shorthanded goal at 8:50 of the third period. Charlie McAvoy carried the puck through the neutral zone and connected a pass to his left at the blue line. Patrice Bergeron scored on a wrist shot by Roberto Luongo for his 24th goal of the season.
     The Cats answered back with 9:05 remaining to go ahead 3-2. Evgenii Dadonov sent a long diagonal pass from his own defensive zone to Huberdeau at the Bruins blue line. He charged to the low right circle with Zdeno Chara on him and made a turnaround wrist shot for his third point of the contest and 20th goal of the year. It was the third time of his NHL career that he had at least 20 goals in a season.
     Boston pulled Rask from goal when they had a power play in the final two minutes and they tied it up 3-3 with 36.5 seconds left. Brad Marchand sent the puck back from the top left circle to the top zone and Matt Grzelcyk buried a one-time slapshot for his second goal this year.
     The B's finished off an incredible comeback by scoring with 6.7 seconds to go for their first lead of the game. Marchand made a set-up pass from the left wing and Bergeron put in a snap shot from just above the left-circle dot for his second tally of the contest.