Vatrano gives Panthers 5-4 overtime win over Blackhawks

Photo by Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI via Getty ImagesFrank Vatrano’s first goal of the season, 2:50 into overtime, gave the Florida Panthers a 5-4 comeback victory over the winless Chicago Blackhawks.

Vatrano finished off a crossing pass from Aleksander Barkov with a drive from the right circle after Florida’s captain received the puck from defenseman MacKenzie Weegar, who carried into the Chicago zone.

Newcomers Carter Verhaeghe and Patric Hornqvist each scored two goals to provide the Panthers offense in regulation time.

Verhaeghe and Hornqvist lit the lamp in the first period to stake the Cats to a two-goal lead before Dominik Kubalik’s pulled one back for the Blackhawks with a power-play goal…