{"id":341376,"date":"2025-12-11T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341376\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:20:06","slug":"lundell-breaks-tie-late-in-3rd-panthers-edge-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341376\/","title":{"rendered":"Lundell breaks tie late in 3rd, Panthers edge Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guenther gave the Mammoth a 1-0 lead at 11:23 of the first period, beating Bobrovsky between the legs on a breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought we played pretty well, and even in the third, I thought we managed it well,\u201d Guenther said. They got up early and we came back and fought hard. I thought we played well, but won&#8217;t get the two points at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers responded with three goals in a span of 4:07 from the end of the first to the early part of the second period, all by the line of Bennett, Verhaeghe, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brad-marchand-8473419\" title=\"Brad Marchand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Marchand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Verhaeghe tied it 1-1 at 19:17, tipping in a shot from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/aaron-ekblad-8477932\" title=\"Aaron Ekblad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Ekblad<\/a>. Bennett then put Florida ahead 2-1 at 1:40 of the second when he beat Vejmelka with a wrist shot on the blocker side.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett\u2019s second goal of the game 1:44 later extended it to 3-1 at 3:24, tapping in a pass from Verhaeghe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of those guys have world-class speed, and Marchand\u2019s hands can find them and find the open areas,\u201d Maurice said. \u201cThey&#8217;re skating incredibly well, and Bennett has, I think it&#8217;s probably from Game 12, he&#8217;s had a point a game. So, Sam Bennett is as good a player as there is in the League right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Said Bennett: \u201cI think we&#8217;ve just done a good job using our speed, getting hard on the forecheck, and then we were able to create some turnovers and get some starting opportunities. It&#8217;s been awesome playing with those guys, it&#8217;s a lot of fun. They make some great plays, and they play hard. So, yeah, just enjoying it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guenther gave the Mammoth a 1-0 lead at 11:23 of the first period, beating Bobrovsky between the legs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-341376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}