{"id":453346,"date":"2026-11-11T05:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/453346\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T05:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:14:24","slug":"sam-bennett-scores-twice-as-florida-panthers-stop-2-game-skid-with-a-4-1-win-over-columbus-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/453346\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bennett scores twice as Florida Panthers stop 2-game skid with a 4-1 win over Columbus Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bennett scored twice, and the Florida Panthers snapped a two-game skid with a 4-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Florida notched its 12th victory in the last 13 games against the Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n<p>Lars Eller and Sam Reinhart also scored. Aaron Ekblad had three assists, and Anton Lundell added two assists. Jacob Markstrom stopped 37 shots for Florida, which improved to 6-0-0 when leading after two periods.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Provorov scored for the Blue Jackets. Cam Talbot stopped 24 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett opened the scoring with a power-play goal off the rush at the two-minute mark of the second period, giving Florida a power-play goal in seven of its last eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Eller made it 2-0 at 4:17 before Provorov cut that lead in half with 20 seconds left in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett restored the two-goal lead at 14:29 of the third. Matthew Tkachuk&#8217;s assist was his team-leading 23rd and extended both his assist and point streaks to five games. <\/p>\n<p>Reinhart capped the scoring with an empty-net goal at 17:44, his 17th score and 43rd point in 32 career games against Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets have been outscored 23-8 in the middle frame through 16 games this season and are 0-9-0 when trailing after two periods.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers: Host Detroit on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jackets: Host Tampa Bay on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>See AP&#8217;s full NHL coverage here               <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Bennett scored twice, and the Florida Panthers snapped a two-game skid with a 4-1 win over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31440,28,30,29,16995,5691,110],"class_list":["post-453346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453346","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=453346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}