The Florida Panthers lost to the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Saturday night at BB&T Center. The Panthers play seven of their next eight games away from South Florida following this contest.
Roberto Luongo was honored in a pregame ceremony by the team and the National Hockey League for becoming the third goalie in league history to play in 1,000 games. Luongo played most of his NHL career with the Panthers and Canucks.
After a scoreless first period, Florida(0-2-1) scored at the 12:31 mark in the second to go ahead 1-0. Vincent Trocheck dropped a pass in the high shot to Jonathan Huberdeau. His initial shot was blocked by traffic and he raced in to put the backhand shot over the body of Anders Nilsson.
Vancouver(3-2-0) responded a couple of minutes later on the power play with 5:12 remaining in the second period. Sven Baertschi connected a cross-ice pass from the low left circle to Elias Petterson and he snapped a high shot from the right circle past James Reimer.
The Panthers got the lead back 2-1 with 2:40 to go. Mike Hoffman made a short pass from the right circle to Keith Yandle at the top of the zone. He sent the puck to the left circle and Vincent Trocheck blasted a one-time slap shot.
Antoine Roussel was rewarded a penalty shot when he went through the slot area and was hooked on a breakaway by Bogdan Kiselevich with 1:45 left. He was able to squeeze a wrist shot by the left glove of Reimer to tie the contest 2-2.
The Canucks took their first lead of the game at 13:49 of the third period. Bo Horvat was in the neutral zone and banked the puck off the right-wing boards at the Panthers blue line. Baertschi got it above the right circle and backhanded a pass across. Horvat tipped the puck into the Cats cage as he was falling down in the low slot.
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