{"id":414313,"date":"2026-09-30T02:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414313\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T02:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:24:11","slug":"forsling-scores-ot-winner-with-4-3-seconds-left-panthers-spoil-hurricanes-banner-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414313\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsling scores OT winner with 4.3 seconds left, Panthers spoil Hurricanes\u2019 banner raising"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Markstrom<\/a>, who was acquired in a trade with the New Jersey Devils on June 30, made 15 saves for the Panthers. Markstrom was a second-round pick (No. 31) by Florida in the 2008 NHL Draft and played his first four seasons for the Panthers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth teams were really hard on pucks and lots of battling,\u201d Florida coach Paul Maurice said. \u201cIt may not have had the flow that excites fans, but for the identities of the (two) teams, I was really happy with our game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old goalie was not busy early in the game, stopping three shots in the first period, but he stopped Sebastian Aho<\/a>\u2019s snap shot on a breakaway at 11:29 of the second.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Aho) maybe felt the backchecker was going to catch him,\u201d Markstrom said. \u201cSo I figured I\u2019d try to grab some ice. He tried to go five-hole, and I was fortunate enough to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brandon Bussi made 19 saves for the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey made it hard on us, and when we did have opportunities, we beat it up,\u201d Carolina coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cI think we are not used to that kind of pressure. We haven\u2019t seen it in practice or preseason games, it\u2019s half the pace of that. Our top guys were fumbling it or just throwing it and passes weren\u2019t connecting. A lot of rust there, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to the game, the Hurricanes raised their 2026 Stanley Cup championship banner to the rafters.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty special,\u201d captain Jordan Staal said. \u201c… I thought we could have played a little better for the Caniacs tonight, but it was pretty special to have that Cup on the ice with them and share that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forward Brady Tkachuk<\/a>\u00a0made his Panthers debut, playing 16:33 with one shot on goal. Tkachuk was acquired in a trade with the Ottawa Senators on June 21, joining his brother Matthew with Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels awesome,\u201d Brady said. \u201cIt was great, but when the game got going it didn\u2019t really matter. It was cool to warm up and start the game, knowing that he\u2019s on the same team. But once the game started, there\u2019s only one focus and that was to get the two points.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Panthers also welcomed back forward Aleksander Barkov<\/a>. The three-time Selke Trophy winner as the NHL’s best defensive forward missed the entirety of the 2025-26 season after sustaining a knee injury early in training camp.<\/p>\n

Barkov had one shot on goal in 20:32 of ice time and went 10-for-20 on face-offs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great,\u201d\u00a0Barkov said. \u201cThe speed of the game is really fast. I missed a whole season, so coming here, the first game of the season is one of the (most) fast-paced.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt good. I haven\u2019t had any problems like overthinking or anything like that. Just trying to play my game. I\u2019m playing with really good players. They help me a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Markstrom, who was acquired in a trade with the New Jersey Devils on June 30, made 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-414313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}