MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Aaron Ekblad had the simplest assessment of how opening night went for the Florida Panthers, calling them the “comeback ‘Cats,” he said.
That they were, and fittingly, Ekblad’s comeback was the biggest part of it all.
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Florida’s top defenseman — who missed the second half of last season with a broken left leg — scored twice late in the third period to single-handedly erase a two-goal Florida deficit, Carter Verhaeghe’s second goal of the game came 1:37 into overtime and the Panthers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-4 on Thursday night.