{"id":5924,"date":"2025-10-16T02:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:31:06","slug":"detroit-red-wings-beat-florida-panthers-4-1-to-end-defending-champs-opening-winning-streak-at-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5924\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings beat Florida Panthers 4-1 to end defending champ’s opening winning streak at 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cam Talbot made 21 saves, Mason Appleton scored twice and the Detroit Red Wings beat Florida 4-1 on Wednesday night to end the defending champion Panthers’ season-opening winning streak at three.<\/p>\n

The injury-hit Panthers opened a four-game trip. They began the season with home victories over Chicago, Philadelphia and Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Detroit has won three in a row. The Red Wings opened with a home loss to Montreal, then swept a home-and-hone series with Toronto.<\/p>\n

Appleton opened the scoring at 2:09 of the second on a snap shot. Patrick Kane added a power-play goal<\/a> at 9:36, firing a shot from right side to the near top corner. Appleton put it away into an empty net with 1:58 left, and Michael Rasmussen also had an empty-netter.<\/p>\n

Brad Marchand scored<\/a> on a wraparound for Florida with 5:55 left in the second. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 21 shots.<\/p>\n

Before the game, Panthers coach Paul Maurice said defenseman Dmitry Kulikov had surgery and is expected to be sidelined about five months because of an upper-body injury,<\/p>\n

Florida also is missing stars forwards Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk. Barkov will be out at least seven months because of a knee injury. Tkachuk could return in December from a torn adductor muscle.<\/p>\n

Kulikov was hurt Oct. 9 in a 2-1 home victory over Philadelphia. Uvis Balinskis took Kulikov’s spot in the lineup against Detroit. The Panthers recalled defenseman Tobias Bjornfot from Charlotte of the American Hockey League on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Panthers: At New Jersey on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Red Wings: Host Tampa Bay on Friday night. ___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Talbot made 21 saves, Mason Appleton scored twice and the Detroit Red Wings beat Florida 4-1 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6502,6499,6501,28,30,29,5691,6500,110,6503],"class_list":{"0":"post-5924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-brad-marchand","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-patrick-kane","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-stanley-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","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=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}