The Florida Panthers could look back at the video of Thursday night’s game in Edmonton and be a happy about a lot of things.
They held the Oilers to just 18 shots through three periods of regulation hockey. Frank Vatrano scored the opener; so, for the first time in eight games, the Panthers didn’t surrender the first goal of the game.
The Panthers were down two men for nearly a minute in the second period and held the Oilers without a shot.
Yet, they lost the game 4-3 in a shootout, with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid both beating Panthers goalie James Reimer in the breakaway competition for the Panthers’ fourth loss in a row.