The .500 mark is a funny thing, isn’t it? The Florida Panthers have been within three games of it all season, but they can’t quite seem to get into true contention.
After winning three in a row going into the All-Star break, they were torched for four goals in the third period to lose to the Nashville Predators in Sunrise on Friday night.
Saturday, a brand new day, as it were, would see the Florida Panthers get off to a pretty hot start.
The game with the Vegas Golden Knights was tied at zero for a mere 12 seconds before Cats captain Aleksander Barkov took hold of a loose puck in the neutral zone, drove it to the right point, and blasted a wrister past a befuddled-looking Marc-Andre Fleury for a very quick 1-0 lead.