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","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":551070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[261,1082,8020,249,62,57,5141,5,3821,251,890,4,63,15076,256,31,1120,1114],"class_list":{"0":"post-551069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-a-j-greer","9":"tag-cole-reinhardt","10":"tag-daniil-tarasov","11":"tag-eetu-luostarinen","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-panthers","14":"tag-floridapanthers","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-joseph-woll","17":"tag-mackie-samoskevich","18":"tag-max-domi","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-panthers","21":"tag-tobias-bjornfot","22":"tag-tomas-nosek","23":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","24":"tag-vinnie-hinostroza","25":"tag-william-nylander"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116391476172111825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551069","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=551069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}