Boston Bruins (43-24-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Florida Panthers (36-35-3, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Sunrise, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Bruins visit the Florida Panthers trying to build upon a four-game win streak.<\/p>\n
Florida has a 36-35-3 record overall and a 10-10-1 record in Atlantic Division play. The Panthers rank third in league play serving 11.3 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n
Boston is 43-24-8 overall with an 11-9-3 record against the Atlantic Division. The Bruins have scored 252 total goals (3.4 per game) to rank eighth in NHL play.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season. The Panthers won 5-4 in a shootout in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sam Reinhart has 29 goals and 32 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk has five goals and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
David Pastrnak has 29 goals and 65 assists for the Bruins. Pavel Zacha has scored nine goals and added six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Panthers: 4-6-0, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.3 assists, 3.3 penalties and 9.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Bruins: 7-1-2, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.3 assists, 4.2 penalties and 10.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Panthers: Cole Schwindt: out (lower body), Donovan Sebrango: day to day (undisclosed), Brad Marchand: out (lower body), Dmitry Kulikov: day to day (face), Evan Rodrigues: out for season (finger), Sam Reinhart: out for season (foot), Niko Mikkola: out (knee), Anton Lundell: out (upper-body), Uvis Balinskis: out (foot), Aaron Ekblad: day to day (hand), Jonah Gadjovich: out for season (upper body), Aleksander Barkov: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Bruins: Mason Lohrei: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins (43-24-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Florida Panthers (36-35-3, in the Atlantic Division) Sunrise, Florida; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[15731,12086,15730,1251,154,95,5132,530,5,12399,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-534731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-app-around-maine","9":"tag-app-in-the-community","10":"tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-boston","13":"tag-boston-bruins","14":"tag-bostonbruins","15":"tag-bruins","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-maine","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}