SUNRISE — Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 27 photographs for his forty fifth profession shutout, Aleksander Barkov had a short-handed purpose and two assists, and the Florida Panthers beat the NHL-leading Winnipeg Jets 5-0 on Saturday evening.
Sam Reinhart had three assists for Florida, which snapped a two-game slide and have become the primary group to take a five-goal lead on the Jets this season. Mackie Samoskevich, Evan Rodrigues, Nate Schmidt and Dmitry Kulikov additionally scored for the Atlantic Division leaders.
Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck got here into the evening with an NHL-best 1.92 goals-against common. It rose to 2.15 after the Panthers beat him 5 instances on 31 photographs, and he took the loss for simply the second time in 14 video games this season.
Reinhart now has factors in 10 straight video games, had his fourth three-point recreation of the season and his first three-assist recreation within the common season since he had 4 in opposition to Columbus on Dec. 10, 2023.
Takeaways
Jets: Regardless of going 0-2-0 in Florida — Winnipeg misplaced in Tampa Bay on Thursday — a 15-3-0 document is, by far, one of the best begin in group historical past. Since hockey returned to Winnipeg in 2011, no Jets group ever had greater than 11 wins by a season’s first 18 video games.
Panthers: Samoskevich was again within the lineup after not taking part in Thursday in a loss to New Jersey and made instant affect with the sport’s opening purpose — his third in his final seven video games.
Key second
Bobrovsky made a giant cease on a backhander by Mark Scheifele halfway by the second interval to maintain Florida up 2-0. Rodrigues and Barkov added objectives not lengthy afterward to blow the sport open for Florida.
Key stat
The Panthers have already got 5 short-handed objectives this season (in 18 video games). That they had eight within the 2023-24 common season (in 82 video games).
Up subsequent
The groups play once more Tuesday in Winnipeg.
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