{"id":348416,"date":"2025-12-16T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348416\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:20:08","slug":"reinhart-scores-twice-panthers-defeat-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348416\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinhart scores twice, Panthers defeat Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marchand made it 3-0 at 11:48 of the second period when he deflected Verhaeghe&#8217;s pass under Johansson&#8217;s right pad from the low slot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think tonight we were trying to force things, and maybe that&#8217;s why they extended the lead,&#8221; Lightning forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brayden-point-8478010\" title=\"Brayden Point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Point<\/a> said. &#8220;I think if we stick with our game we have a chance to come back. They don&#8217;t give you a whole lot, especially in their end, but it&#8217;s about not getting frustrated and sticking with our game plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reinhart scored his second of the game on the power play to push the lead to 4-0 at 18:08. He buried a wrist shot from the left circle off a cross-ice pass from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mackie-samoskevich-8482713\" title=\"Mackie Samoskevich\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mackie Samoskevich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He played 31 shifts for us tonight, but he did it in about 22 minutes,&#8221; Maurice said of Reinhart. &#8220;He played an incredibly smart game. He knows when to push on the power play, run the penalty kill and when to take a chance. Sam&#8217;s the driver of both units.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crozier, who was playing in his 33rd NHL game, scored his first career goal to make it 4-1 at 19:27. He scored with a slap shot from above the right circle that beat Bobrovsky to the far post through a screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was definitely not how we wanted to start the game, but we had pretty much three full periods to get it back. So for us, we&#8217;ve got to be better,&#8221; Crozier said. &#8220;We needed to fight back harder and we had a lot of time to fight back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marchand made it 3-0 at 11:48 of the second period when he deflected Verhaeghe&#8217;s pass under Johansson&#8217;s right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-348416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}