{"id":436061,"date":"2026-01-25T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436061\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:59:08","slug":"marchand-scores-ot-winner-in-return-panthers-top-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436061\/","title":{"rendered":"Marchand scores OT winner in return, Panthers top Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Reinhart<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> had two assists, and Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a> made 18 saves for the Panthers (27-20-3), who have won two in a row and five of their past seven games.<\/p>\n

\u201cA really unusual game with the power plays the way it unfolded, so I didn\u2019t get the fourth line of the bench as much as I would have liked,\u201d Florida coach Paul Maurice said. \u201c\u2026 But you\u2019re excited about every line you put on the ice because there\u2019s a chance something good\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> and Matt Boldy<\/a> each had a goal and an assist, and Filip Gustavsson<\/a> made 30 saves for the Wild (29-14-10), who have lost two of their past three (1-1-1).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a choppy game, I think, with so many special teams throughout the game,\u201d Minnesota coach John Hynes said. \u201cBut I thought there\u2019s different things that they do really well. At times, we handled it well and there\u2019s things that we tried to put some pressure on them in certain areas. I think it was a little bit of a back-and-forth, obviously, with special teams being a huge factor in tonight\u2019s game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reinhart put the Panthers on the board 1-0 at 6:44 of the first period, getting the rebound of Aaron Ekblad<\/a>‘s slap shot past Gustavsson from the slot.<\/p>\n

Kaprizov tied it 1-1 on the power play at 9:17 when Boldy found him off the right post for a bank shot.<\/p>\n

Marchand pushed it to 2-1 on the power play, putting a backhand shot from the slot past Gustavsson at 18:20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist, Matthew Tkachuk had two assists, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 18…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-436061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436061","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=436061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}