The game between the Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers will take place at TD Garden on Wednesday, April 26 at 7:00 PM ET.
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The Boston Bruins will welcome the Florida Panthers to TD Garden for an NHL game on Wednesday. The Boston Bruins won 2-6 in their last game over the Bruins. Linus Ullmark left the ice with a few minutes left to play, which ordinarily isn’t a great thing for hockey goaltenders. In this case, it only made the Boston Bruins appreciate him more. Ullmark stopped 41 shots before leaving the game with 3:11 remaining after drawing a misconduct penalty — he wanted to fight Florida’s Matthew Tkachuk as the highlight of a late-game scrum — and the Bruins beat the Panthers 6-2 on Sunday to move one game away from the second round of the playoffs.
“I love it,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said of his goalie. “He’s all in.” Taylor Hall had two goals and two assists, Jake DeBrusk scored twice, and the Bruins took a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference first-round series — with a chance to advance coming in Boston on Wednesday. Brad Marchand and Tyler Bertuzzi also had goals for the Bruins, who got a second consecutive win on Florida ice. Hall’s goals came in the final 3:36, the second one an empty-netter.
But the talk of the locker room was Ullmark, for good reason. “Tkachuk’s kind of doing a lot of things to try and get under our skin but for the most part, we’re doing a great job of keeping it between the whistles, and I’m proud of our group for doing so,” Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo said. “But at times, you’ve got to show a little passion and push back.”
The Florida Panthers on the other hand lost 2-6 against the Bruins in their last game. Tkachuk and Sam Bennett had goals for Florida, while Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 25 shots for the Panthers. Hall put it away with 3:36 left, getting behind Florida’s defense and beating Bobrovsky easily for a 5-2 edge that sent Panthers fans to the exits — possibly for the last time this season. “I liked the way we started. Certainly didn’t like the end result,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. “But we’ll go into Boston feeling free.”
The Panthers had two notable lineup changes — Bobrovsky was in, Aaron Ekblad was out. Alex Lyon’s run of 11 consecutive games as Florida’s starting goalie ended, with Bobrovsky getting the call there. Ekblad was listed as a game-time decision after leaving Game 3 early with an undisclosed injury; he wound up sitting out and Casey Fitzgerald played instead.
Taylor Hall – Tyler Bertuzzi – Jake DeBrusk
Pavel Zacha – Brandon Carlo – Nick Foligno
Garnet Hathaway – Jakub Lauko – Brad Marchand
Tomáš Nosek – Dmitry Orlov
Linus Ullmark – Charlie Coyle
Derek Forbort – Trent Frederic
Matt Grzelcyk – Hampus Lindholm
Charlie McAvoy
David Pastrňák
Jeremy Swayman
Brandon Montour – Matthew Tkachuk – Sam Bennett
Carter Verhaeghe – Aleksander Barkov – Sergei Bobrovsky
Nick Cousins – Zac Dalpe – Casey Fitzgerald
Gustav Forsling – Radko Gudas
Ryan Lomberg – Anton Lundell
Eetu Luostarinen – Josh Mahura
Sam Reinhart – Eric Staal
Marc Staal
Colin White
Boston Bruins: Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci
Florida Panthers: Sam Bennett, Ryan Lomberg, Spencer Knight, Patric Hornqvist
The game between the Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers will take place at TD Garden on Wednesday, April 26 at 7:00 PM ET.
The match between the Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers will be telecast live on NESN, ESPN, Bally Sports Florida, Fox Sports Florida.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | NESN, ESPN, Bally Sports Florida, Fox Sports Florida. | April 26 (7:00 PM ET) |
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