FLORIDA PANTHERS at CAROLINA HURRICANES
APRIL 8, 2021
PNC Arena – Raleigh, N.C.
| FLORIDA PANTHERS | CAROLINA HURRICANES |
| 0 | 3 |
[OVERTIME]
- The Cats will face the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center at 2 p.m. EST on Saturday.
- Aleksander Barkov led Florida with 23:07 TOI and won 20 of his 29 faceoffs (69%).
- Carter Verhaeghe registered a team-high six shots on goal.
- Chris Driedger stopped 15 of 16 CAR shots at even strength.
- Noel Acciari led Florida with four blocked shots.
- Gustav Forsling played in his 150th NHL game and led Florida with 3:44 shorthanded TOI.
- Florida out-shot (24-22) and out-hit (39-24) Carolina. Ryan Lomberg and MacKenzie Weegar each posted a team-high seven hits.
PANTHERS POSTGAME QUOTES – APRIL 8, 2021
Head Coach Joel Quenneville
“We didn’t get enough pucks to the net earlier on…I just think that quality was low-end for what we were expecting.”
“They’re a good hockey team, they don’t give you much room and you need to be ready to play that type of game.”
Forward Frank Vatrano
“Tonight the bounces weren’t going our way and we weren’t getting enough chances. We didn’t get enough bodies in front of the net, not enough second and third chances. That’s how your going to score goals against these teams. They’re not going to be pretty, they’re going to be ugly goals. We’ve just got to do a better job of that.”
“Right now we’re not clicking but it’s going to come. We’ll look at video and we’ll get better.”
Forward Patric Hornqvist
“Carolina did a really good job on their (penalty kill)…When they have that hard pressure, we have to find a way to get open for each other and play almost a five-on-five mentality out there. I think we had some good looks today…but we couldn’t capitalize. It’s something we have to work on for sure.”
