{"id":855255,"date":"2026-09-21T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855255\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:56:09","slug":"sept-20-nhl-preseason-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855255\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 20: NHL Preseason Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cole Reinhardt<\/a> scored two goals,\u00a0Niko Mikkola<\/a>\u00a0had a goal and two assists, and Aleksander Barkov<\/a> had a goal and an assist for the Panthers. Jacob Markstrom<\/a>\u00a0made 21 saves.<\/p>\n

Justin Robidas<\/a> had a goal and an assist for the Hurricanes, and Pyotr Kochetkov<\/a>\u00a0made 28 saves.<\/p>\n

It was the first preseason game for each team.<\/p>\n

Dominik Badinka<\/a> poked a loose puck in off Markstrom\u2019s back after the Florida goalie had trouble controlling a rebound, giving the Hurricanes a 1-0 lead at 6:04 of the first period.<\/p>\n

Brady Tkachuk tied the game 1-1 with a wrist shot from the high slot on the power play at 12:02. The primary assist came from his brother Matthew.<\/p>\n

Barkov gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead at 2:30 of the second\u00a0period, scoring\u00a0five-hole on a breakaway after receiving a pass in stride in the neutral zone from Brady\u00a0Tkachuk.<\/p>\n

Reinhardt made it 3-1 just 96 seconds later with a wrist shot from the high slot that went blocker side at 4:06.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Robidas brought the Hurricanes to within 3-2 during a 5-on-3 power play at 9:34. He one-timed a\u00a0Charlie Cerrato<\/a>\u00a0pass far side over Markstrom\u2019s blocker from the right circle.<\/p>\n

Then with the teams skating 4-on-4, Robidas skated behind the net and whipped a pass back to the low slot, where Bradly Nadeau<\/a> tied the game 3-3 at 10:45.<\/p>\n

Reinhardt\u00a0redirected a Mikkola wrist shot for his second goal of the game, making it 4-3 for Florida at 12:10.<\/p>\n

Mikkola gave the Panthers a 5-3 lead with a wrist shot from the left point at 19:07.<\/p>\n

Brady Tkachuk scored into the empty net with 2:15 remaining for the 6-3 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cole Reinhardt scored two goals,\u00a0Niko Mikkola\u00a0had a goal and two assists, and Aleksander Barkov had a goal and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-855255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}