Panthers Postgame Notes - 4.23.22 vs. TOR

FLORIDA PANTHERS vs. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

APRIL 23, 2022

FLA Live Arena – Sunrise, Fla.

FLORIDA PANTHERS	TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
3	2

[OVERTIME]

PANTHERS POSTGAME QUOTES

Defenseman Brandon Montour

On Current 13 game winning streak:

“It has been incredible. The guys we have in the locker room are all great people. Off the ice we have a blast. Everyone is friendly with everyone. We come to the rink every day and have fun. We’ve got a heck of hockey club in there. We take each shift, each game, game-by-game and it is showing this year, all year.”

On game winning goal:

“I think that may have been my first overtime goal. You know, it’s fun. Anytime as a defenseman you score big goals to get wins for your team. It is nice to chip in offensively and that is one of my strengths, jumping up in the play and creating offense. It is nice to get that one.”

On Bobrovsky’s performance tonight:

“He is so steady, obviously he is so calm back there. Lets a goal in or makes a big save, its right on to the next one. He has been a backbone for our squad all year.”
Forward Claude Giroux

On this Panthers team:

“It is great. We go into games with a lot of confidence. I feel after each win, we say to each other that we can play better. Everything is going great right now. We are getting some bounces, guys are making plays and having fun, so we just got to keep going.”

On the team’s confidence:

“It doesn’t matter who we play, we want to keep getting better as a team, keep building what we are doing right now and tonight we have no business winning that game if Bob [Bobrovsky] doesn’t make the saves he made. He was solid and in the third he really shut the door for us.”

Interim Head Coach Andrew Brunette

On the win tonight:
“It’s a hard game. It was a good pace. We haven’t seen a team like this for the last little bit. It was good to grind one out a little bit and fall behind and have to come back again. It’s something you don’t want to continuously do but it shows resilience—we weren’t at our best today. Give [Toronto] a lot of credit—they played extremely well, they played the right way, they played fast, harder than we did tonight. We found a way to get back in the game and make a great play in overtime to win it.”

On breaking a Panthers franchise record for most consecutive wins with 13:
“Yeah, it speaks to the grit and resilience of our group. To the desire to be great and how we push ourselves. In games where we maybe didn’t have the same jump in energy we normally have, we found a way to get something out of it. I think it was good for our group to see how hard it’s going to be once we get going. We’ve had a bit of a schedule where we played teams that are maybe in other races and tonight was a little bit of an eye opener for us. These games are going to be really hard down the stretch here. It’s kind of good to get tonight, and tomorrow will be another hard one and Tuesday will be another hard one and I think that will be good for our group. We need to clean up a few things.”

CATS STATS

The Panthers earned their 13^th consecutive win tonight, surpassing their previous franchise record of 12 wins in a row from Dec. 15, 2015-Jan. 10, 2016.
Florida became the 10^th team in NHL history to post a winning streak of at least 13 games. It marks the longest win streak by an NHL club since CBJ won 16 in a row from Nov. 29, 2016-Jan. 3, 2017.
Florida’s 34 home wins (34-6-0) in 2021-22 are the third-most in one season in NHL history (36, DET in 1995-96 and PHI in 1975-76). Their 187 home goals are the second-most by a team since PIT recorded 215 in 1995-96.
The Panthers won their league-leading 57^th game (57-15-6), tied for the seventh-most in a season in NHL history. Their 120 points are tied for the ninth-most in league history.
The win marked Florida’s ninth multi-goal comeback this season, tied with MIN for the most among teams this season.
Florida has earned a total of 29 comeback victories in 2021-22, tied with TBL in 2018-19 for the most in one season in NHL history.
Brandon Montour scored his first career overtime goal, Florida’s 13^th OTG in 2021-22. He is the 10^th different Panther to tally an OTG this season.
Florida’s 13 overtime tallies this season are the most by any team in NHL history. Seven of their OT goals have come at FLA Live Arena.
The Cats are 16-0-6 in games that end in OT or a shootout this season; only four teams in NHL history have recorded more wins in a season (ARI in 2009-10 [19], EDM in 2007-08 [19], MIN in 2006-07 [17], VAN in 2006-07 [17]).
Claude Giroux led Florida with three points (1-2-3), his second three-point outing as a Panther. He has amassed 20 points (3-17-20) since joining Florida, with the Cats owning a 15-1-0 record over that span.
Aleksander Barkov recorded two points (1-1-2), including his 39^th goal of the season, tying Olli Jokinen (39 in 2006-07) for the third-most goals scored in one season in club history. Only Pavel Bure’s back-to-back Rocket Richard-winning seasons (59 in 2000-01, 58 in 1999-00) stand ahead of his mark.
Mason Marchment notched two assists, his second consecutive multi-point game. He has logged four points (1-3-4) over his past two outings.
Jonathan Huberdeau posted an assist, extending his assist streak to three games (0-6-6). His 114 points (30-84-114) rank second among league skaters this season.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 34 of 36 TOR shots (.944 SV%) to earn his league-leading 39^th win of the season (39-6-3). He has earned a victory in each of his past 13 decisions.
Florida’s American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, secured the Atlantic Division title with a 2-1 win vs. Providence tonight.