Vegas Golden Knights at Florida Panthers

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Vegas Golden Knights

3-2-1

Final
3 - 4

Florida Panthers

4-2-1

Forsling scores in overtime, Panthers top Golden Knights 4-3

Vegas Golden Knights vs. Florida Panthers: Game Highlights

Sam Reinhart scored a goal and added two assists for the Panthers, who won a matchup of the last two Stanley Cup champions. Sam Bennett and Eetu Luostarinen also scored for Florida, which got 23 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky.

Tanner Pearson had a goal and an assist for Vegas, which got goals from Brett Howden and Keegan Kolesar. Nicolas Roy had two assists for Vegas, which wasted three separate one-goal leads.

Ilya Samsonov stopped 45 shots for Vegas.

Takeaways Golden Knights: The Golden Knights were outshot 49-26 on the night and 21-6 from the start of the third period.

Panthers: Florida extended its point streak to four games (3-0-1), all the while missing star forwards Aleksander Barkov (lower-body injury) and Matthew Tkachuk (illness). They had to play down one skater on Saturday due to an injury to Jonah Gadjovich and salary cap constraints.

Key moment Luostarinen tied the game up at 3-3 with 7:17 to go, potting home a feed from Reinhart after he collected the rebound of an Aaron Ekblad slap shot. Ekblad had two assists.

Key stat Reinhart has four goals and nine points during his five-game point streak.

Up next The Golden Knights host the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday while the Panthers wrap up a three-game homestand against the Minnesota Wild.

Regular Season Series

FLA leads series 1-0

Scoring Summary

Goal	1st Period 19:27	Tanner Pearson Goal (1) Snap Shot, assists: Nicolas Roy (1)
Goal	2nd Period 1:09	Sam Reinhart Goal (5) Snap Shot, assists: Anton Lundell (3), Aaron Ekblad (2)
Goal	2nd Period 14:15	Keegan Kolesar Goal (1) Deflected, assists: Tanner Pearson (2), Nicolas Roy (2)
Goal	2nd Period 19:20	Sam Bennett Goal (4) Tip-In, assists: Carter Verhaeghe (3), Anton Lundell (4)
Goal	3rd Period 7:30	Brett Howden Goal (3) Backhand, assists: none
Goal	3rd Period 12:43	Eetu Luostarinen Goal (3) Wrist Shot, assists: Sam Reinhart (6), Aaron Ekblad (3)
Goal	4th Period 4:43	Gustav Forsling Goal (2) Wrist Shot, assists: Sam Bennett (3), Sam Reinhart (7)

Statistics

VGK		FLA
28	Blocked Shots	17
25	Hits	17
3	Takeaways	5
26	Shots	49
0	Power Play Goals	1
1	Power Play Opportunities	2
0.0	Power Play Percentage	50.0
0	Short Handed Goals	0
0	Shootout Goals	0
38	Faceoffs Won	29
56.7	Faceoff Win Percent	43.3
27	Giveaways	23
2	Total Penalties	1
4	Penalty Minutes	2

Florida Panthers Injuries

NAME, POS	STATUS	DATE
Aaron Ekblad, D	Day-To-Day	Feb 6
Evan Rodrigues, C	Day-To-Day	Feb 6
Daniil Tarasov, G	Day-To-Day	Feb 5
Tobias Bjornfot, D	Injured Reserve	Feb 5
Seth Jones, D	Injured Reserve	Jan 19