With this loss and Toronto’s win in Edmonton, the Florida Panthers have now slipped to sixth place in the Atlantic Division. This marks the third three-game losing streak this year, the first where not just a majority, but all three games have come at home.
While it’s easy to say that there’s no shame in losing to the Boston Bruins, who snapped their five-game losing skid in this game, the Panthers simply weren’t up to it for the first forty minutes. Boston jumped out of the gates with intensity and never looked back.
Part of the problem was the mass shift of the forwards going into this game.