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Mackie Samoskevich and Eetu Luostarinen each tallied three points to lead the visiting Florida Panthers to a 6-2 defeat of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Samoskevich restored the Panthers\u2019 (38-38-4, 80 points) two-goal lead after William Nylander nabbed back-to-back goals in the second period to cut the deficit to 3-2. A.J. Greer chipped in with a goal and an assist. Tomas Nosek had two goals.<\/p>\n

Joseph Woll stopped 19 of 23 shots for Toronto (32-34-14, 78 points) while Daniil Tarasov turned away 17 of 19 for Florida.<\/p>\n

Luostarinen opened the scoring just 23 seconds in, spinning into Samoskevich\u2019s rebound and beating Woll from a tight angle. Cole Reinhardt made it 2-0 five minutes later.<\/p>\n

Tarasov denied Max Domi on a breakaway on what was the Maple Leafs\u2019 first shot of the game 4:33 in. Toronto went on to record just six shots in the opening frame.<\/p>\n

Nosek ended a 75-game scoring drought to make it 3-0 early in the second period through a high screen. Fellow Czech countrymate Marek Alscher tallied his first NHL point on the play, having left the puck for Nosek on the sideboards.<\/p>\n

Nylander responded with two markers later in the period. He outwaited Panthers defenseman Tobias Bjornfot\u2019s sprawling defensive effort and sniped one past Tarasov glove-side on the power play. He nicked the puck off Vinnie Hinostroza and doubled his tally with a goal from nearly the same spot in the high slot 2:21 later.<\/p>\n

Samoskevich made it 4-2 early in the third period with a one-timer off a low, quick feed from A.J. Greer. Greer and Nosek added empty netters.<\/p>\n

Head coaches Paul Maurice and Craig Berube continued to plug rookies into their injury-plagued lineups. Center Wilmer Skoog made his debut for the Panthers, as did defenseman William Villeneuve for the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n

The Panthers snapped a four-game losing streak while the Maple Leafs extended their losing skid to five.<\/p>\n


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John Devine has worked with the Miami Herald since 1996. He has worked as a Broward sports editor, Broward news editor, assistant sports editor and deputy sports editor before he became executive sports editor in 2021.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mackie Samoskevich and Eetu Luostarinen each tallied three points to lead the visiting Florida Panthers to a 6-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-550935","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\/116390486038964501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550935","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=550935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}