This was the Florida Panthers‘ third game in their last four that they earned at least one point. Whereas the last two finished in shootouts, Colorado cut OT short, with Nathan MacKinnon burying the winner.
With Florida falling to 1-1-1 at home and 2-2-3 on the year, there are several highs and lows that this team has had in this young season, and this game was a perfect kind of way to simplify how the team has played. Brilliant in the first, poor in the second, and average in the third and OT.
An issue that has plagued multiple Panthers teams of the past has been a lack of clinical goalscoring, and while the game didn’t start that way, it ended as such.