Bruins outlast Panthers in OT on aim with 1.2 seconds left
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David Pastrnak delivered in model to cap a wild win over the defending Stanley Cup champions.
A Bruins group desperately looking for a break to change the course of its season might have discovered one Saturday afternoon in opposition to the Florida Panthers.
After a high-sticking name with 42 seconds left in time beyond regulation, the Bruins had one final gasp on the ability play to try to keep away from a tie. They discovered some much-needed luck when David Pastrnak despatched one towards the web.
The puck ricocheted off Sam Reinhart’s stick, goalie Sergei Bobrovsky by no means noticed it, and it made its approach in with 1.2 seconds left to seal a dramatic, 4-3, highway triumph.
The Bruins, who had misplaced six straight coming in, picked up one in every of their largest victories thus far in opposition to the defending Stanley Cup champions.
It was a back-and-forth battle from the beginning. Morgan Geekie gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead, the Panthers tied it, then Pastrnak put Boston forward, 2-1 within the second interval.
Reinhart tied it, Oliver Wahlstrom vaulted the Bruins again in entrance early within the third, then Reinhart transformed with 1.8 seconds left, moments after the Bruins hit the submit on an empty-netter.
The Bruins regrouped, delivering in model for a nationwide viewers on ABC.
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