Three takeaways: Panthers struggle finding footing, disallowed goal
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The Florida Panthers were hoping to storm out of the gates when they opened their post-4 Nations schedule on Saturday.
Instead, the Cats stumbled and ultimately came up short in a 2-1 loss to the Seattle Kraken at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise.
There are several factors that you can chalk the loss up to.
Whether Florida ran into a hot goalie, needed more practice time or just more puck luck, there were too many things that didn’t go the Panthers way for them to pick up two points against Seattle.
Let’s get to Saturday’s takeaways:
A MIXED BAG
After not playing for nearly two weeks and holding only a pair of shorthanded practices, it seemed the Panthers were a little disjoined at times on Saturday against Seattle.
Compare that to the Kraken, who played a strong road game in a tough building against the defending Stanley Cup champs.
Did it make a difference that Seattle had been in South Florida for several days and had a full team to skate together ahead of the game?
It sure didn’t hurt.
“I don’t think that we gave up a whole heck of a lot,” said Panthers Head Coach Paul Maurice. “They got one on the power play, we don’t, and then some missed opportunities. We never really like talking about that. We’ll be above the bar on chances for and against. There’s some plays…sloppiness, we just couldn’t get a handle on some pretty basic things. So that would make sense to you, we haven’t had a practice, like a team practice, yet. It was just okay. There’s not a trend there that I’m worried about.”
TURNING POINT
Florida was playing from behind after allowing the Kraken to get on the board first during the opening period, but they appeared to be building some momentum as the game moved into the middle frame.
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