Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Panthers Pound Coyotes

     The Florida Panthers walloped the Arizona Coyotes 6-2 on Wednesday night at Amerant Bank Arena. It was the Panthers final home game before the NHL All-Star Game break. The Cats are now 8-1-0 at home versus the Coyotes since the 2014-15 season. 
     Florida(29-14-4) showed their dominance in the first nine minutes of the contest and had a 3-0 lead. It goals by Matthew Tkachuk at 1:53, Sam Reinhart at 8:44 and Sam Bennett at 9:01. Reinhart extended his point streak to 11 games with his 35th goal of the season. 
     Arizona(23-20-3) surrendered two more goals during the second period and trailed 5-0. Tkachuk scored again at the 4:14 mark and Anton Lundell found the net with 1:43 left in the second.
     It became 6-0 for the Panthers at 2:27 of the final period. Jonah Gadjovich placed in a wrist shot on an assist from Kevin Stenlund. 
     The Coyotes broke the shutout at the 3:25 mark of the third with a power-play goal. Dylan Guenther snapped a shot from the inner left circle past Sergei Bobrovsky for his third tally of the campaign and his sixth point in nine games played this season. Logan Cooley added another power-play goal with 3:02 to go in the game and Arizona was down 6-2. 

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