Panthers Postgame Notes - 4.8.22 vs. BUF

FLORIDA PANTHERS vs. BUFFALO SABRES

APRIL 8, 2022

FLA Live Arena – Sunrise, Fla.

FLORIDA PANTHERS	BUFFALO SABRES
4	3

PANTHERS POSTGAME QUOTES

Forward Patric Hornqvist

On the chemistry across the lineup:

“I think it’s great—great coaching. When you switch lines like that it gives everyone an extra boost. You can see that in the end even Barky stays on the blue line to keep that puck in. That’s just confidence. And when we play with confidence and that quickness, it’s hard to beat us. And that’s usually what happens when you change lines sometimes, you’re like, ‘Let’s go now,’ and you play with the puck and do the right things. So, great coaching and big goal for us.”

On teammate Claude Giroux:

“He fits in great. He’s a great person, he’s a leader, and he works so hard on both sides of the puck. He’s a shorter version of Barky. And when you have those two up the middle, even putting one on the side—we have a dangerous team. He’s been fitting in well and it’s nice to see him score a few goals here lately, too—it’s going to keep coming.”

Forward Sam BennettOn his 100^th career goal and 200^th point

“Scoring the game winning goal is most important and obviously it is a great feeling scoring 100 [goals] as well. It was a great feeling scoring that one.”

On Team Chemistry:

“When you put good players together it usually becomes pretty easy. We have so many good players on this team that can play with anyone, and who can play different positions. That is big for our group having that depth.”

Interim Head Coach Andrew Brunette

On Recent Success of the Power Play:

“… I have really liked our attack mentality the last couple of games around the net. Having Rhino [Reinhart] around the net. It was hard. We only had two, so it was tough to gauge it, but it is nice that they are getting rewarded for some of the plays that were making.”

On Team confidence:

“I think when you feel good in a lot of these situations is that we didn’t really deviate from the plan. We stayed within our structure and stayed within ourselves, we didn’t go outside and be individual. As a group we kind of rallied and we didn’t change too much. We felt that there is self-belief that if we do these things, we are going to come back and score goals… I think there is a good understanding in our group and that speaks to the leadership of the guys in there. They understand that and it is a good thing to have.”

CATS STATS

Florida earned their seventh consecutive home win (and sixth consecutive overall win) for their league-leading and franchise-record 30^th win at FLA Live Arena this season (30-6-0). With the win, Florida has earned 106 points in 2021-22, surpassing the prior franchise single-season record of 103 from 2015-16.
Tonight marks Florida’s 50^thoverall win of the season (50-15-6), tied with COL for the league lead.
The Panthers overcame a multi-goal deficit to win for the eighth time this season and the third in their past four games. Their eight multi-goal comeback wins are the most in one season in club history.
Aleksander Barkov notched two assists to record his sixth straight multi-point game. Barkov tied Jonathan Huberdeau for the second-longest such run in Panthers history behind Pavel Bure (7 multi point games 2000-01).
Sam Bennett tallied the game winning goal with 38 seconds to go in the third period, marking his 100^th NHL goal and 200^th NHL point. He leads FLA with seven game winning goals this season.
Jonathan Huberdeau (0-1-1) extended his point streak to 10 games (7-12-19), dating to March 18 (7-12-19). He became the second player in Panthers history to record multiple double-digit point streaks in a season (also 10 GP from Jan. 27 – Feb. 26), joining Pavel Bure (13 GP & 11 GP in 1999-00).
Florida Panthers forward Sam Reinhart scored his team-leading 13^th power-play goal and added an assist.
Claude Giroux posted his second straight multi-point game (1-1-2). He has recorded 11 points (2-9-11) and five multipoint outings over nine games with Florida.
The Florida Panthers American Hockey League Affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers became the first AHL Eastern Conference team to clinch a playoff berth with a 3-2 win over Hartford.