The game between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins will take place at FLA Live Arena on Friday, April 28 at 7:30 PM ET.
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The Florida Panthers will welcome the Boston Bruins to FLA Live Arena for an NHL game on Friday. The Panthers won 3-4 in their last game over the Bruins. The Florida Panthers watched Bruins forward Brad Marchand skate in alone on goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, with the seconds ticking away in the third period of a 3-3 game. If Marchand scores, Florida’s season is over.
“I knew it wasn’t going in,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said, before admitting that he was lying. “You can’t know that it wasn’t going in, so I’m full of (it) when I just said that to you. “But I don’t feel like we’ve had a whole lot of advantage in this series, in the karma of the game,” Maurice said after Bobrovsky’s save with 1 second left sent the game into overtime, where Matthew Tkachuk won it. “I just felt that we had stored enough karma that that shot wouldn’t go in.”
Tkachuk scored six minutes into overtime, and Bobrovsky stopped 44 shots to help the Panthers beat the Bruins 4-3 on Wednesday night and force their first-round playoff series back to Florida for a sixth game. One game after Bruins goalie Linus Ullmark tried to fight Tkachuk, the Panthers forward took advantage of Ullmark’s sloppy puck play behind the net to cut Boston’s lead in the best-of-seven series to 3-2.
The Boston Bruins on the other hand lost 3-4 against the Panthers in their last game. After Boston tied it — and Bobrovsky preserved the lead — Marchand’s pass to Pavel Zacha at the point in the Florida zone skidded all the way down the ice and behind the Boston net. Ullmark carelessly played it right to Carter Verhaeghe in the corner; he shot it off Ullmark’s leg, and it bounced to Tkachuk in the slot.
He flipped it over to his backhand and beat the badly out of position goalie. “That guy is a — and then you put a long string of profanity — gamer,” Maurice said. “He’s just a gamer. Use your own words.” Game 6 is Friday night in Sunrise, Florida, where Boston won twice already this series to push the Panthers to the brink of elimination. The Presidents’ Trophy winners had not lost back-to-back home games all season.
“We’re supposed to get swept in the series, right? Everyone’s saying? So I don’t think anybody really gave us a chance after losing two games in a row and at home and coming here,” Tkachuk said. “It just seemed like the series was over before that game even started. … It comes down to: We don’t want our season to end.” Patrice Bergeron scored in his return from an injury, and Ullmark stopped 21 shots for the Bruins. Marchand and Taylor Hall had the other goals for Boston, which rallied from 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 deficits to force overtime.
Carter Verhaeghe – Matthew Tkachuk – Aleksander Barkov
Sam Bennett – Nick Cousins – Anthony Duclair
Sam Reinhart – Sergei Bobrovsky – Zac Dalpe
Aaron Ekblad – Gustav Forsling
Radko Gudas – Anton Lundell
Eetu Luostarinen – Josh Mahura
Brandon Montour – Eric Staal
Marc Staal
Colin White
Brad Marchand – Charlie McAvoy – Patrice Bergeron
Brandon Carlo – Charlie Coyle – Taylor Hall
Tyler Bertuzzi – Jake DeBrusk – Nick Foligno
Derek Forbort – Matt Grzelcyk
Garnet Hathaway – Jakub Lauko
Hampus Lindholm – Tomáš Nosek
Dmitry Orlov – David Pastrňák
Linus Ullmark
Pavel Zacha
Florida Panthers: Ryan Lomberg, Spencer Knight, Patric Hornqvist
Boston Bruins: David Krejci
The game between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins will take place at FLA Live Arena on Friday, April 28 at 7:30 PM ET.
The match between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins will be telecast live on Bally Sports Florida, Fox Sports Florida, TNT, NESN.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Bally Sports Florida, Fox Sports Florida, TNT, NESN. | April 28 (7:30 PM ET) |
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