{"id":536314,"date":"2026-04-02T09:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:51:14","slug":"gameday-75-florida-panthers-vs-boston-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536314\/","title":{"rendered":"Gameday 75: Florida Panthers vs Boston Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BOS.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Graphic design: Francisco Oporta &amp; Todd Little<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Florida Panthers (36-35-3) will shoot for the season-series sweep when they face the Boston Bruins (43-24-8) tonight at Amerant Bank Arena in suburban Sunrise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Florida exploded for five first period goals and cruised to 6-3 win over the Ottawa Senators to end a three-game losing streak. Matthew Tkachuk racked up a goal and three assists; Carter Verhaeghe scored twice and added a helper; and Seth Jones tied a franchise record for defensemen with three assists in the opening frame. Daniil Tarasov made 23 saves and hit ten wins for the first time, and Noah Gregor. A.J. Greer and Mackie Samoskevich also lit the lamp for the Cats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Whle the Panthers were busy thrashing the Senators, the Bruins beat the Dallas Stars by the same score at TD Garden to extend its winning streak to four games. Viktor Arvidsson notched a hat trick and Marat Khusnutdinov, Elias Lindholm\u00a0and Henri Jokiharju also scored for the Bruins. Leading scorer David Pastrnak assisted on three goals and Joonas Korpisalo stopped 13 of 16 shots faced. Red-hot Boston (7-1-2) has collected at least a point in nine of its last ten games. <\/p>\n<p>WHEN:\u00a07 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>WHERE:\u00a0Amerant Bank Arena \u2013 Sunrise, FL<\/p>\n<p>ON THE TUBE:\u00a0Scripps, NESN<\/p>\n<p>ON THE DIAL:\u00a0104.3 WQAM (D\/B), 106.3 ESPN (PB), Thunder 100.3 FM (Keys)<\/p>\n<p>SOCIALS:\u00a0#TimeToHunt, #NHLBruins, #BOSvsFLA,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LitterBoxCats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@LitterBoxCats<\/a>, LBC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LitterBoxCats\/?ref=mf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">FaceBook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ENEMY INTEL:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanleycupofchowder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Stanley Cup of Chowder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEASON\u00a0SERIES:\u00a0Game 3 of 3 (2-0)<\/p>\n<p>LAST MEETING:\u00a0@FLA 5, BOS 4 (SO) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.litterboxcats.com\/florida-panthers-boston-bruins-recap-lundell-marchand-tkachuk-balinskis-luostarinen-eyssimont-geekie-nhl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recap<\/a>) 2\/4\/2026<\/p>\n<p>NEXT MEETING:\u00a0That\u2019s all, folks!<\/p>\n<p>PROJECTED STARTERS:\u00a0Florida: Bobrovsky (26-21-1 .879 \/ 3.00 4SO) Boston: Swayman (30-15-4 .908 \/ 2.73 1SO)<\/p>\n<p>PLAYER STATS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/panthers\/stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bruins\/stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Boston<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thursday in the NHL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Standings<\/a>\/Panthers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/predictions.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Playoff Chances<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO (46-21-8 100P) at OTTAWA (38-26-10 86P) 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh (38-21-16 92P) at TAMPA BAY (46-22-6 98P) 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL (43-21-10 96P) at New York Rangers (31-35-9 71P) 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>DETROIT (39-27-8 86P) at Philadelphia (37-25-12 86P) 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO (32-30-13 77P) at San Jose (35-31-7 77P) 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graphic design: Francisco Oporta &amp; Todd Little The Florida Panthers (36-35-3) will shoot for the season-series sweep when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-536314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-floridapanthers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116334500278878976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536314","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=536314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}