Nearly everyone involved in Florida scoring as Panthers beat Vancouver Canucks
Just about everyone in the Florida Panthers lineup contributed offensively on Monday.
And considering how the game unfolded, they needed it.
Overall, a franchise-record 16 Panthers players —including goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky — had at least one point in Florida’s 8-5 win over the Vancouver Canucks at Amerant Bank Arena. Seth Jones had a pair of power-play goals. Sam Reinhart had three assists. Carter Verhaeghe had two. Sam Bennett and Brad Marchand each had a goal and an assist.
It helped the Panthers (10-8-1) shake off their loss a couple days ago to the Tampa Bay Lightning and a two-goal deficit in the first period Monday.
“Everyone was stepping up,” Bennett said. “We showed a lot of resilience, stayed with it and played a pretty solid game.”
But they still can’t shake off the injury bug, which once again is hitting the team.
The Panthers are already down five key players (forwards Aleksander Barkov, Matthew Tkachuk, Tomas Nosek and Jonah Gadjovich plus defenseman Dmitry Kulikov) long-term. They then entered Monday with a sixth in forward Eetu Luostarinen listed as day-to-day and had a seventh in forward Cole Schwindt exit in the first period after colliding with goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky when both tried to make a play on the puck. Maurice said Schwindt will see a doctor Wednesday and does not expect the injury to be short-term.
And for good measure, forward Mackie Samoskevich, who moved to the top line with Anton Lundell and Marchand in Luostarinen’s absence, briefly left in the second period when a Gustav Forsling shot from the point hit his hand.
But the Panthers didn’t let that deter them.
Nor did they let the fact that Vancouver (9-10-2) jumped out to a 2-0 lead with a pair of goals in a 24-second span late in the first period AND erased Florida’s two-goal lead in the opening minutes of the third period.
Bennett scored the go-ahead goal 4:02 into the third period when he deflected in a Niko Mikkola shot from the point past Vancouver goaltender Jiri Patera. Jones added his second power-play goal of the night at 8:19 of the period and Marchand scored his team-leading 13th goal of the season on an empty net with 1:46 left to play.
Before that, Florida scored five consecutive goals in a span of 11:27, stretching between the end of the first period and start of the second period, to take a commanding 5-2 lead. The breakdown of Florida’s goals in that run:
- 4:10 left in the first period: A.J. Greer scored on a snap shot from the slot on a feed from Carter Verhaeghe. Florida’s deficit cut to 2-1.
- 7.7 seconds left in the first period: Seth Jones and Sam Reinhart take a rush down the ice on the power play, with Jones firing the snap shot past Patera to tie the game. Bobrovsky had the secondary assist on the goal. Tie game, 2-2.
- 2:23 into the second period: Luke Kunin scored his first goal with the Panthers by cleaning up a rebound from a Noah Gregor shot. 3-2 Panthers.
- 6:10 into the second period: Evan Rodrigues gets a pass from Sam Reinhart and fires a shot from close range past Patera. 4-2 Panthers.
- 7:17 into the second period: Anton Lundell goes top shelf off a pass from Brad Marchand. 5-2 Panthers. Marchand’s assist extends his point streak to 11 games, two shy of matching his career high.
“When you get down two, you’ve got a decision to make,” Greer said. “Being able to just wipe out whatever happened before that and go on and stay with it, keep the structure going, play to our identity and play hard is important.”
It temporarily erased the two-goal deficit Florida fell into when Drew O’Connor and Jake DeBrusk scored 24 seconds apart in the first period.
But Vancouver rallied back with three goals. Elias Pettersson scored the first two — cutting Florida’s lead to 5-3 with 7:55 left in the second and then 5-4 1:24 into the third — before Filip Hronek scored on the power play 3:14 into the final frame.
The Panthers then closed the game with that three-goal flurry to take the win.
“We got better as the game went on,” Maurice said.
Despite a rough outing in net (five goals allowed on 15 shots), Bobrovsky earned his 438th career win, breaking a tie with Jacques Plante for ninth all-time in NHL history. Terry Sawchuk is eighth with 445 wins.
Florida continues its five-game homestand on Thursday against the New Jersey Devils (7 p.m., Scripps Sports).
This story was originally published November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM.
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