Carter Verhaeghe scored two goals to lead the Florida Panthers to a 5-2 road win over the Detroit Red Wings on Monday.
Matthew Tkachuk had a goal and two assists, Gustav Forsling and Eric Staal each scored and Sam Bennett had two assists for Florida (36-27-7, 79 points), which has won three straight.
Aleksander Barkov also added an assist, tallying his 614th point with the Panthers to become the franchise's all-time leading scorer.
Pius Suter and Dylan Larkin scored for Detroit (30-30-9, 69 points), which has lost three straight.
The Panthers opened the scoring with 12:32 remaining in the first period, taking a 1-0 lead on a goal by Tkachuk.
After a giveaway in the Detroit zone by Lucas Raymond, Bennett took the puck in the middle of the ice and fed a pass to his right to Tkachuk, who buried the chance into an open net.
Florida took a 2-0 lead with 7:32 remaining in the first on a goal by Verhaeghe, who skated to a loose puck in the middle of the ice at the top of the faceoff circles and blasted a shot past Detroit goalie Ville Husso.
Just 2:09 later, the Red Wings cut the Florida lead to 2-1 when Suter poked a loose puck that was sitting in the crease into an open net.
With 8:27 remaining in the second period, Florida regained a two-goal lead on a goal by Forsling, who fired a shot from top of the left faceoff circle that got past Husso to make it 3-1 Panthers.
Detroit then made it 3-2 with 13:07 remaining in the third on a goal by Larkin. During a delayed penalty, he took a pass from Raymond and ripped a shot from a sharp angle that went past Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky.
Florida got an insurance goal with 3:52 left when Staal scored on a two-on-one breakaway to make it 4-2 Panthers.
Verhaeghe then added a power-play goal with 1:23 remaining in the game to complete the scoring.
--Field Level Media
Florida | Detroit | |
Matthew Tkachuk 3 | Points | Dylan Larkin 1 |
Carter Verhaeghe 2 | Goals | Dylan Larkin 1 |
Matthew Tkachuk 2 | Assists | Andrew Copp 1 |
Carter Verhaeghe 1 | Power Play Goals | N/A |
N/A | Short Handed Goals | N/A |
Sergei Bobrovsky .909 | Save Percentage | Ville Husso .800 |
Sergei Bobrovsky 20 | Saves | Ville Husso 20 |
Team | Shots | Goals | Power Play | Penalty Kill | Penalty Mins | Face Offs Won |
Florida | 25 | 5 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 4 | 23 |
Detroit | 22 | 2 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 6 | 19 |