The game between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins will take place at FLA Live Arena on Sunday, April 23 at 3:30 PM ET.
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The Florida Panthers will welcome the Boston Bruins to FLA Live Arena for an NHL game on Sunday. The Florida Panthers Islanders lost 2-4 in their last game over the Bruins. Lyon stopped 23 of 26 shots for Florida, the Pastrnak goal with 11:28 remaining chasing him and having Florida send in Sergei Bobrovsky. That might mean the Panthers have a big decision to make regarding a starter before Game 4 in Sunrise on Sunday afternoon — but Florida coach Paul Maurice said it was simply time to get Bobrovsky some work. “He needs a little bit of action. That’s all that was,” Maurice said. “It was not a critique of Alex’s game.”
Gustav Forsling and Sam Reinhart had goals for Florida, which didn’t get anything past Ullmark until 5:19 remained. Boston improved to 50-3-0 this season when allowing no more than two goals and 15-2-1 after a loss. The Bruins were again without captain Patrice Bergeron, out with an upper-body injury. He won’t play in Game 4 either, with the Bruins believing he will be ready to play when the series returns to Boston for Game 5 next week.
Florida is built to let shots fly. There have been three teams in NHL history to take more than 3,000 shots in a season — the 1970-71 Bruins are one of them, and the other two are the 2021-22 Panthers, and the 2022-23 Panthers. That makes what Boston did even more impressive than it looked on the stat sheet. The Bruins held Florida to four shots in the second period — matching the Panthers’ fourth-lowest total for any of their 254 periods this season to that point. “For the most part, playoff hockey, you forget and move on, maybe learn from it a little bit,” Reinhart said. “Every day’s a new challenge. We’re going to come back Sunday ready to go.”
The Boston Bruins on the other hand won 2-4 against the Panthers in their last game. The Boston Bruins don’t lose often. And losing two in a row, that’s been almost unheard of for this team this season. Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist, Linus Ullmark stopped 29 shots and the Bruins topped the Florida Panthers 4-2 in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round series on Friday night.
Boston took a 2-1 lead in the series — looking nothing like the team that gave up six goals on home ice on Wednesday. They thwarted Florida for two periods, with 19 of the Panthers’ 31 shots coming amid a desperate third-period rally try. “We saw Boston Bruins hockey today,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. The Bruins — who had the best regular season in NHL history — flexed all sorts of muscle in Game 3.
They took a 4-0 lead before a pair of late goals only made the scoreboard look better, chased Panthers starter Alex Lyon in the third, and reclaimed the home-ice edge that they’d lost two nights earlier. Charlie Coyle, David Pastrnak and Nick Foligno also had goals for the Bruins, and Dmitry Orlov had a pair of long outlet passes that became assists. “It’s all about us … but it doesn’t end with this one,” Ullmark said.
Aleksander Barkov – Sam Bennett – Gustav Forsling
Eetu Luostarinen – Sam Reinhart – Eric Staal
Sergei Bobrovsky – Nick Cousins – Anthony Duclair
Aaron Ekblad – Radko Gudas
Ryan Lomberg – Anton Lundell
Alex Lyon – Josh Mahura
Brandon Montour – Marc Staal
Matthew Tkachuk
Carter Verhaeghe
Colin White
Jake DeBrusk – Taylor Hall – Dmitry Orlov
Tyler Bertuzzi – Charlie Coyle – Nick Foligno
Brad Marchand – David Pastrňák – Brandon Carlo
Derek Forbort – Trent Frederic
Matt Grzelcyk – Garnet Hathaway
Jakub Lauko – Hampus Lindholm
Charlie McAvoy – Tomáš Nosek
Linus Ullmark
Pavel Zacha
Florida Panthers: Aaron Ekblad, Spencer Knight, Patric Hornqvist
Boston Bruins: Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci
The game between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins will take place at FLA Live Arena on Sunday, April 23 at 3:30 PM ET.
The match between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins will be telecast live on Fox Sports Florida, Bally Sports Florida, TNT, NESN.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Fox Sports Florida, Bally Sports Florida, TNT, NESN. | April 23 (3:30 PM ET) |
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