Philadelphia Flyers at Florida Panthers

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Philadelphia Flyers

0-1-0

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Florida Panthers

2-0-0

Brad Marchand breaks 3rd-period tie to help the Panthers beat the Flyers, 2-1

Brad Marchand puts Panthers back ahead early in 3rd

Marchand fired a wrist shot from the left boards past goalie Dan Vladar and into the top right corner to help the Panthers win their second straight at home to open the season. Marchand missed a chance to pad the lead with 6 1/2 minutes left, sending a wrister over the crossbar on a breakaway.

Tocchet rejoined the Flyers during the offseason. The former Philadelphia player won Stanley Cups as an assistant in Pittsburgh and was a head coach in Tampa Bay, Arizona and, most recently, Vancouver.

Anton Lundell also scored for injury-depleted Florida, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 19 shots. Florida captain Aleksander Barkov is expected to miss the entire regular season because of two torn knee ligaments, and Matthew Tkachuk is probably out until December at least while he recovers from a groin injury.

Noah Cates scored for Philadelphia. Vladar made 32 saves.

Lundell opened the scoring on a power play at 5:29 of the second period, beating Vladar with a wrist shot off a break. Cates tied it with 2:12 left in the period, chipping a loose puck over Bobrovsky.

Florida opened Tuesday night with a 3-2 victory over Chicago.

Up next Flyers: At Carolina on Saturday night.

Panthers: Host Ottawa on Saturday night.

Regular Season Series

FLA leads series 1-0

Scoring Summary

Goal	2nd Period 5:29	Anton Lundell Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Evan Rodrigues (2), Jeff Petry (1)
Goal	2nd Period 17:48	Noah Cates Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Tyson Foerster (1)
Goal	3rd Period 2:19	Brad Marchand Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Luke Kunin (1), A.J. Greer (1)

Statistics

PHI		FLA
10	Blocked Shots	5
17	Hits	27
4	Takeaways	2
20	Shots	34
0	Power Play Goals	1
2	Power Play Opportunities	5
0.0	Power Play Percentage	20.0
0	Short Handed Goals	0
0	Shootout Goals	0
41	Faceoffs Won	26
61.2	Faceoff Win Percent	38.8
23	Giveaways	13
5	Total Penalties	2
10	Penalty Minutes	4

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